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I will never understand why Sonos puts a tweeter in their speakers, but then configure their master chain in a way that it’s basically off. Wonder if they did some focus group testing and people seemed to associate lacking highs with “premium” sound or something.
If not doing anything edge-casey, nanobind[0] is extremely pleasant to use. It’s a rewrite of pybind11 specifically designed for the 80/20 use-cases and solves the long compile times. I have used it extensively over the last year in atopile[1] if someone is looking for a real-world production code example. We are using nanobind paired with hatch & scikit-build.
I suggest having a look at the pyproject and src/faebryk/core/cpp.
[0] https://github.com/wjakob/nanobind [1] https://github.com/atopile/atopile
The next stage in `ato build` process would have caught the missing connections in the DRC check and the LLM could have fixed it itself.
Co-author of atopile here – super excited to see this on HN!
Coincidentally, we just built an MCP server for atopile, and Claude seems to love it. It makes a big difference in usability, and also exposes our re-usable design library[0].
A bit about atopile[1]: Our core idea is to capture design intent in a knowledge graph with constraints and high-level modeling of components and interfaces. This lets us do much more than just AI integrations: we’ve built an in-house constraint solver that can automatically pick passives (resistors, capacitors, etc) based on the values you've constrained in your design.
Currently, atopile directly generates KiCAD PCB files, so you can finish the layout (mainly the connections between reusable layout blocks). We're also generating artifacts like I2C bus trees and 3D models, with power trees and schematic generation on the roadmap.
Happy to answer questions or go into technical details!
Tried out claude code with atopile this week, and it's absolutely crazy. atopile has mcp support and claude loves using it. The MCP gives access to the atopile design library and compiler amonst other things.
Disclaimer: co-author of atopile here
Finally some love for the best controller ever made. Name of the project is also great. Hope to see some usb version of the dongle hw that supports multiple controllers.