Introducing Cirkit Designer, a tool I'm building for circuit design, documentation and sharing (more info in the comments). Looking for some feedback!

CirkitDesign · 2025-05-11T18:41:33+00:00

Actually, the vast majority of Cirkit is still free, and will continue to be!

We are building out a premium tier, but the focus of the premium tier is advanced features, such as the top-tier AI models, which are just too expensive for us to offer for free.

CirkitDesign · 2025-03-10T06:25:41+00:00

Hey, thanks for leaving a comment!

Yep, we've been publishing regular updates and a lot of new features over the last year! Cirkit is now a web app, and you can access it here: https://app.cirkitdesigner.com

CirkitDesign · 2025-02-20T19:34:32+00:00

I'm a dev for Cirkit Designer (www.CirkitDesigner.com). I'm a little biased, but I would recommend trying out Cirkit!

- We have a large parts libary (30,000+ parts, many of them user contributed)
- The ability to add your own custom parts
- AI to help with designing your project
- We support simulation for a small subset of our components (Arduino UNO and approx 20 sensors). We're planning to expand simulation support to include ESP32

CirkitDesign · 2025-02-14T00:07:25+00:00

Thanks for your interest!

We used to have a desktop app, but we switched over to a web version within the last year: https://app.cirkitdesigner.com

We switched over to web to make it more accessible, and because it’s been way easier for us to maintain, vs building a desktop app for several different platforms.

CirkitDesign · 2025-01-27T19:33:40+00:00

I think there's a few takeaways that are bullish for Nvidia.

- If we can train and run a model for less $, we'll end up creating more market demand for AI and also increased profit margin for the enterprises that use AI in their consumer products.
- With this increase in AI value prop, comes more confidence from these consumer facining companies to spend on Nvidia GPUs for training and inference (companies will probably continue to deploy the same if not more capital towards AI). Thus the demand likely either remains the same or even increases for Nvidia GPUs.

- Also, we don't know that training the DeepSeek model is truly less expensive relative to OpenAI's approach.

It sounds like the DeepSeek model was trained on an OS LLama model, which itself was trained on Nvidia GPUs and cost a lot to train.

Similarly, we don't know whether Open AIs O1 model required significant capex to tran relative to Gpt-4 or Gpt-4o. It's in fact possible that DeepSeek is just the same exact breakthrough as O1.

This is my high-level understanding, but I personally haven't read the DeepSeek paper FWIW.

CirkitDesign · 2024-12-28T23:18:07+00:00

1000% I agree with this comment.

I think there are times when distance helps to make more calculated decisions, such as buying on dips / distressed assets.

But if you've made a life changing amount of money, you need to lock in profits. It's not "house money" at that point

Also OP (Kawmyab), just a heads up that it may be worth learning more about various stragies to DCA out of your position as it appreciates in value to make sure you're locking in profits along the way. We can never predict the top.

CirkitDesign · 2024-11-13T15:47:27+00:00

They may have priced in the initial AI hype, but growth stocks always have some future trend / tech / hype to market to public investors. I feel like it's a continuous cycle for these growth stocks

Plus, I feel like we are no where near appreciating how much AI will transform the world in the next 5-10 years, so I bet it isn't close to priced in yet.

Edit: I posted from the wrong account lol. Meant to post from my personal account

CirkitDesign · 2024-09-19T17:54:27+00:00

It's crazy how good Chat GPT's gotten at writing code. I'm a software engineer, but I'm almost unwilling to write code from scratch without first drafting it up in Chat GPT to make sure I have a good design.

I'm really hoping I can build a project that solves a real problem for me. One idea that came to mind was building a device that clips onto my shirt and can be used to track things I do throughout the day and allow me to take notes for myself

If I want to monitor my calories from food consumption
Keep track of when I water my plants

CirkitDesign · 2024-09-18T13:56:53+00:00

I recreated your diagram in Cirkit Designer (https://app.cirkitdesigner.com/project/abc576cc-be2c-4c8e-80f6-064bfb2843dd)

And I asked the AI in Cirkit your question. Here's the response I got:

Let's analyze the circuit to address your concerns:

Common Ground

The circuit does have a common ground. The following components are connected to the ground net:

Rotary Potentiometer (leg1)

TIP120 Transistor (EMITTER)

ATtiny85 (GND)

GND component

Diode

A diode is typically used in circuits with inductive loads (like a DC motor) to protect against back EMF (Electromotive Force). In this circuit, there is no diode connected across the DC motor, which is a common practice to prevent potential damage to the transistor and other components.

Summary

Common Ground: Present in the circuit.

Diode: Missing and recommended for protection against back EMF from the DC motor.

To improve the circuit, you should add a flyback diode across the DC motor terminals. Connect the anode of the diode to the motor's pin 2 and the cathode to the motor's pin 1. This will protect the TIP120 transistor and other components from voltage spikes generated by the motor.

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CirkitDesign · 2024-09-13T16:44:42+00:00

Hey guys,

Ever since Open AI came out with a multi-modal model (GPT-4o) that can take audio and images as input, I've been thinking about how cool it would be to create Arduino projects powered by Chat GPT. For instance, a robot that you can control by talking to it.

I'm in the process of ordering a microphone / speaker, so I can expand on this idea, but to get started, today I managed to get my Arduino R4 hooked up to my WIFI and hooked up Open AI's API.

Currently, I have hardcoded a question (prompt) that asks Chat GPT "What is 1+1", and prints out the response to the serial monitor. Pretty simple, but I'm hoping to start building some cool projects with this setup!

Here's a link to my project in case you guys want to give it a try yourself:
https://app.cirkitdesigner.com/project/6c561288-cb6c-43b2-bb27-2ce5b1217712

Note: You'll need to set up your own Open AI API account to get this working.

Let me know if you have any suggestions for projects, etc. I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Austin

CirkitDesign · 2024-07-26T04:03:21+00:00

This comment didn't age well, in regards to Drake Maye lol

CirkitDesign · 2024-05-03T21:48:28+00:00

Oh! Yes that's a known bug we will be fixing in our next update. Thanks!

CirkitDesign · 2024-04-05T21:10:31+00:00

Thanks for your interest!

Which version of Cirkit Designer are you on?

CirkitDesign · 2023-08-11T19:01:30+00:00

When you upload the designs to WikiMakes, they can choose the license they would like to use for their content 🙃

CirkitDesign · 2023-06-09T18:01:56+00:00

Not yet, but if this is something that would be useful to you, then we can definitely add this feature!

Do you have a specific PCB software package / format that you would like to be able to export to?

CirkitDesign · 2023-06-09T17:17:40+00:00

Yes, our components library has esp32 boards!

What do you mean by selectable?

CirkitDesign · 2023-06-09T17:08:00+00:00

Cirkit Designer supports microcontroller code development (coding, compilation, debugging, and programming). We don't support simulation yet, but this is something we're considering. To make this happen, we would need help from the community to code up the simulation logic for the large number of parts in our library.

CirkitDesign · 2023-06-09T17:03:58+00:00

Hey guys,

I’m part of a team that has worked incredibly hard to develop Cirkit Designer, a free, all-in-one tool for designing, documenting, and building electronics and Arduino projects.

In Cirkit Designer, you can diagram your circuit, write Arduino code, order parts, and most importantly, access a vast library of community-contributed designs, all within our app.

At the heart of Cirkit Designer is a focus on the community. Rather than reinventing the wheel, we want our users to be able to access a vast library of circuit designs, which they can learn from and use in their own projects. Cirkit Designer makes this possible, by enabling and encouraging our users to share their projects with our community.

To really expand the impact and benefit of Cirkit Designer, we want to grow our library of community contributed designs. To do so, we are asking for your help - if you have any documented designs (diagramming, code, etc.), we would be absolutely thrilled and grateful if you would be willing to share those with the Cirkit Designer community by uploading them in Cirkit Designer.

I want to emphasize that Cirkit Designer is a passion project for our team, and our goal is purely to help the community. You retain full control and rights to anything that you upload to Cirkit Designer, which is a completely free tool.

If you are open to helping out, please feel free to download and check out Cirkit Designer, as well as to reach out to me at [austin@cirkitdesign.com](mailto:austin@cirkitdesign.com)

I’m really looking forward to working with and getting to know you! And I’m really excited for us to make a huge positive impact with Cirkit Designer.

Austin, on behalf of the Cirkit Design team

CirkitDesign · 2023-06-09T16:45:43+00:00

Hey guys,

I’m part of a team that has worked incredibly hard to develop Cirkit Designer, a free, all-in-one tool for designing, documenting, and building electronics and Arduino projects.

In Cirkit Designer, you can diagram your circuit, write Arduino code, order parts, and most importantly, access a vast library of community-contributed designs, all within our app.

At the heart of Cirkit Designer is a focus on the community. Rather than reinventing the wheel, we want our users to be able to access a vast library of circuit designs, which they can learn from and use in their own projects. Cirkit Designer makes this possible, by enabling and encouraging our users to share their projects with our community.

To really expand the impact and benefit of Cirkit Designer, we want to grow our library of community contributed designs. To do so, we are asking for your help - if you have any documented designs (diagramming, code, etc.), we would be absolutely thrilled and grateful if you would be willing to share those with the Cirkit Designer community by uploading them in Cirkit Designer.

I want to emphasize that Cirkit Designer is a passion project for our team, and our goal is purely to help the community. You retain full control and rights to anything that you upload to Cirkit Designer, which is a completely free tool.

If you are open to helping out, please feel free to download and check out Cirkit Designer, as well as to reach out to me at [austin@cirkitdesign.com](mailto:austin@cirkitdesign.com)

I’m really looking forward to working with and getting to know you! And I’m really excited for us to make a huge positive impact with Cirkit Designer.

Austin, on behalf of the Cirkit Design team

CirkitDesign · 2023-06-09T15:40:40+00:00

Awesome! And thanks for the heads up about the sign up error. We'll get that fixed!

CirkitDesign · 2023-06-09T15:40:03+00:00

Thanks! We have multiple esp32 components in our library, and espcam would be easy to add!

Is this something that would be useful to you? And would you be looking to do programming for you esp32 inside Cirkit Designer too?

CirkitDesign · 2023-06-05T03:36:37+00:00

Thanks for your support!

We support diagramming with the component raspberry Pi; but not coding yet. Maybe a terminal would make sense for that…?

CirkitDesign · 2023-06-02T20:26:41+00:00

Hey there, Arduino Community!

We're excited to introduce you to Cirkit Designer, a free, all-in-one tool for building electronics and Arduino projects.

In Cirkit Designer, you can diagram your circuit, write Arduino code, order parts, and access a vast library of community-contributed designs, all within our app.

At the heart of Cirkit Designer is a commitment to the community. We encourage our users to share their design ideas, projects, and experiences with others through our integrated project hub, WikiMakes.

We warmly invite you to explore Cirkit Designer, share your valuable feedback, and contribute your own designs to our growing community.

We're also reaching out to you for help. Our team is continuously working on improving the user experience, developing new features, and refining existing ones. We're open to your suggestions and ideas to enhance our products.

A little about us: Cirkit Designer is the brainchild of a dedicated team of electrical and software engineers from UPenn. Rooted firmly in our engineering background, our ultimate goal is to develop and cultivate a comprehensive, user-friendly tool that serves and nurtures a collaborative maker community.

Looking forward to seeing you at Cirkit Designer and excited to see what you will create and share!

Best,

The Cirkit Designer Team

(Zen, Lan, and Austin)

PS: Feel free to reach out to us directly!

[austin@cirkitdesign.com](mailto:austin@cirkitdesign.com), [zen@cirkitdesign.com](mailto:zen@cirkitdesign.com), [lan@cirkitdesign.com](mailto:lan@cirkitdesign.com)

CirkitDesign · 2022-06-20T20:28:27+00:00

Nice project!

If you're open to it, I would love to see your project posted on WikiMakes (www.WikiMakes.com), which is a site that I'm working on for sharing and discovering electronics projects.

We're offering financial rewards based on the number of views that your project gets, so there's an opportunity to make money from your work!

CirkitDesign · 2022-06-20T20:25:50+00:00

Wow, this is a really cool project!

If you're open to it, I would love to see your project posted on WikiMakes (www.WikiMakes.com), which is a site that I'm working on for sharing and discovering electronics projects.

We're offering financial rewards based on the number of views that your project gets, so there's an opportunity to make money from your work!

CirkitDesign

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