Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware

(withdiode.com)

124 points | by rossant 3 days ago

12 comments

  • lm28469 38 minutes ago
    Your slopware needs a few more vibe code sessions, it's stuck in an infinite request loop and pins my cpu for absolutely no reason:

    https://i.imgur.com/Lv94a9H.png

    https://i.imgur.com/fTlOqCS.png

    Try upgrading to opus max plus next 4.7 with the $400 a month plan, it should work better!

  • dgxyz 1 hour ago
    I appreciated that smoke comes out of the battery if you short it :)

    Edit: I am ex EE. I will note that it's horrible using this view. It is marginally more horrible than using breadboards in reality. Schematics exist because reality tends to suck or have inconsistencies. For example TO-99 packages come in different pin orders, so 2N3904 has the opposite order to a BC547. Also breadboards tend not to have full length bus bars depending on vendors. At least though in this form it's an ideal representation though which doesn't have parasitic capacitors, inductors, dodgy contacts and no ground plane all over it.

    It is good fun though :)

  • KeplerBoy 1 hour ago
    Not a fan. The standard schematic abstraction is great and actually helps us parse circuits.

    Don't add unnecessary complexity just because AIs are good at vibecoding threejs demos.

    • globular-toast 1 minute ago
      Got to agree. This is kind of pointless. Breadboards exist to make it easier to build physical circuits. I would also argue there is paedagogical value in actually playing with a physical breadboard. Having to physically orient things in 3D space is a small price you pay for building a physical prototype. This is all the downsides with none of the upsides.
  • seanthemon 1 hour ago
    A more mature version of this is "CRUMB" found on steam, it costs money but it's got a lot of great features.
  • svennidal 2 hours ago
    Looks great, but pretty difficult to work with. Would be nice to be able to switch to top view to see more clearly where you're plugging things.
    • svennidal 33 minutes ago
      Looks great, but pretty difficult to work with. Would be nice to be able to switch to top view to see more clearly where you're plugging things.

      Edit: Clicking the background and dragging it actually gave me the top view I was looking for. Thank you goodcanadian. That said, I still think this application is a better skillset demo than a practical tool to use.

    • goodcanadian 2 hours ago
      You can click the background and drag to rotate the view
      • lnenad 2 hours ago
        It's still clunky though. It's a great, cool thing that OP built but just not very practical.
  • fercircularbuf 2 hours ago
    This is really terrific!!!
  • bandrami 1 hour ago
    OK the smoke was really funny
  • zkmon 2 hours ago
    Super cool. Wonder if we can input the circuit as code.
    • bandrami 1 hour ago
      There used to be some really good web-based SPICE interpreters but I can't find them now. This was before javascript ate everything, so you would enter the netlist, click a button, and get a GIF or the current at a specified terminal or whatever
      • eqvinox 1 hour ago
        Well, SPICE is still around in its zillion forks and dialects…

        AIUI the best frontend is kicad, though I never really tried that, I just wrote the text files by hand.

    • eqvinox 1 hour ago
      > Wonder if we can input the circuit as code.

      SPICE. You're describing SPICE. :)

  • PunchyHamster 2 hours ago
    the 3D look is cool but makes it harder to put stuff together
  • NooneAtAll3 2 hours ago
    lacks exception catching for when webgl is disabled
  • shakna 1 hour ago
    Holy requests, batman.

    ... Why so many requests for a static asset?

    • lm28469 41 minutes ago
      Because it's yet another slopware of course
  • dorongrinstein 3 days ago
    wow. looks amazing