we are working with this consumer electronics company debug their zephyr project right now, would be worth trying out. if it doesn't work, email founders@embedder.dev we'll help you out
Not just the context layer: the hardware interaction layer would be incredibly useful as a local MCP. These seem to be your special sauce, not the UI. Allowing users to access these from their preferred editors or cli tools would probably help adoption a lot.
Great work building this. If I was still in the hardware space I'd be all over this.
we are talking to a some of the larger vendors about getting first-party support for documentation. once we scale up a bit I think it could make sense to have multiple fine tuned models based on the docs they provide (or we crawl the web for public ones, at minimum)
there are some other companies trying to solve for PCB design. long term we want to build end-to-end AI automation for those cross-domain projects. this was a good place to start based on our personal/work experience
strict grounding protocol + planning phase, mostly by prompting and forcing attention through citations. it tends to think longer than other coding agents but the results are usually better. let me know what you think.