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RP2350 with HDMI, WiFi, and battery charging in KiCad
One four-layer RP2350 board with HDMI, WiFi, SD, USB-C, barrel jack, and onboard battery charging, built in KiCad.
The smallest ESP32 board CopperPilot could design
A plain-English prompt produced an ESP32-PICO-MINI-02 board with USB-serial, LDO, and Qwiic, laid out cleanly in KiCad.
An MCP23017 I2C GPIO expander, schematic to fab
MCP23017 expander with 3.3V/5V jumper-selectable I2C, daisy-chain connectors, 61 stitching vias, and clean ERC/DRC in KiCad.
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An NVIDIA Jetson carrier board, built in KiCad
An 8-layer Jetson carrier with 370 footprints, 794 vias, and 48 copper zones, wired, routed, and DRC clean in KiCad.
RP2350 with HDMI, WiFi, and battery charging in KiCad
One four-layer RP2350 board with HDMI, WiFi, SD, USB-C, barrel jack, and onboard battery charging, built in KiCad.
The smallest ESP32 board CopperPilot could design
A plain-English prompt produced an ESP32-PICO-MINI-02 board with USB-serial, LDO, and Qwiic, laid out cleanly in KiCad.
An MCP23017 I2C GPIO expander, schematic to fab
MCP23017 expander with 3.3V/5V jumper-selectable I2C, daisy-chain connectors, 61 stitching vias, and clean ERC/DRC in KiCad.
CopperPilot builds a Raspberry Pi CM5 carrier in KiCad
Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI, and USB-C power on a 6-layer CM5 carrier: 158 nets, 9 length-matched differential pairs, in KiCad.
CopperPilot builds a PIR sensor board in KiCad
CopperPilot built a PIR sensor board in KiCad end to end, from pin-level checks to fab-ready output.
Light sensor module, built end-to-end in KiCad
CopperPilot built an LM393 light sensor module in KiCad with full pin-function validation and fabricatable output.
A 3.5mm jack breakout, pinout to fab files
CopperPilot built a 3.5mm jack breakout in KiCad from pinout to fabrication outputs with production-grade checks.
Motor power nets that survive real current
CopperPilot rebuilt a quadcopter power stage in KiCad and enforced current-aware trace and clearance constraints for manufacturable routing.
Relay board: footprints, IPC-2221, zero DRC
CopperPilot built a relay board end to end, including custom footprints, IPC-2221 trace sizing for 10A paths, and clean DRC.