taylorfinley

I believe the temple on Kauai is hand-carved, but I enjoy the contrast of monastic orders using CAD/CAM tooling. It makes perfect sense when you think of the cutting-edge tech it required to make an illuminated manuscript, for example. I suspect there have always been hacker/nerd types among those groups.

The same guy just bought the company distributing the Musk film (checks notes) 9 days ago; it was then quickly pulled from theaters. Make of that what you will, as the Gizmodo piece says, the timing is certainly odd.

For context, I've currently got 579 registered users. By far, most of them are using it to design brand new projects or to customize our published plans, rather than converting their existing designs into orderable BOMs.

I wonder if you have considered building configurable libraries of designs and/or PCB design features into your MCP? That could allow for building with in-stock, least expensive components. And it opens your product up to tinkerers that wouldn't otherwise design a PCB in KiCad.

I am one such potential customer! I am restoring a classic Skee Ball machine from the early 90s, I want to make a little esp32 board to replace the vintage system board. If I could go from prompt to PO Box for a reasonable price I would certainly be interested.

Sawdust also tracks shop inventory and capabilities, so if you have lumber and fasteners and your table saw configured you can filter down to things you can build with what you have on hand. Could be interesting to do something similar here with e.g. minimum order quantity leftovers.

Also an opportunity to become a marketplace -- if I can design my replacement board then publish it and get a cut of its sales, you can smartly replace OOS or now-more-expensive components, and keep the board purchasable and configurable, solving lots of problems for the open source hardware space.

But... boy, the slop smell is strong with this doc.

I would be really interested in seeing what would happen if you gave your agent one turn to clean it all up. You motivated me to share my anti-slop guide [0], which is so unreasonably effective I have hesitated to share it previously -- it's nice to be able to spot the slop from a mile away. But if you have a sec I would be really curious to see the same page after a round of de-smelling.