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Re:Atopile – design circuit boards fast – with code by yodon on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @10:46AM (#44582915)
If the important thing is "with code" then show me the code.

I gave up hunting through your website because I never managed to find an example of what the code for a real circuit looks like. That should be front and center on the first page.

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Re:Atopile – design circuit boards fast – with code by kitd on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @11:19AM (#44583246)
You must have given up pretty quick."ato Language" in the left-hand navigator under "Essentials" is pretty obvious.

https://atopile.io/atopile/essentials/1-the-ato-language

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Re:Atopile – design circuit boards fast – with code by yodon on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @11:59AM (#44583754)
That's a language definition not an example of what a real circuit looks like in code.
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Re:Atopile – design circuit boards fast – with code by gus_massa on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @12:52PM (#44584418)
Where is an example like a "Full Bridge Rectifier"?
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Re:Atopile – design circuit boards fast – with code by themgt on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @01:57PM (#44585107)
This project looked like an interesting example of what was possible: https://github.com/atopile/spin-servo-drive

https://github.com/atopile/cell-sim/ also quite interessting.

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Re:Atopile – design circuit boards fast – with code by ted_dunning on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @03:14PM (#44585822)
How about this?

https://packages.atopile.io/packages/atopile/ti-lv284x/relea...

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Re:Atopile – design circuit boards fast – with code by AdamH12113 on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @04:06PM (#44586270)
That example puts silkscreen reference designators on component pads, which is... not great.
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Re:Atopile – design circuit boards fast – with code by sleepytimetea on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @06:56PM (#44587720)
I agree - we need a large example not the toy examples of NeoPixels chained together. Also, in the Github module library, I found only ESP32-C3 modules but the hobbyists use ESP8266 and ESP32 and ESP12-E as well as STM dev modules...I suppose its one of those things where contributors will help populate the library but I don't see instructions on how to build all the artifacts I see in the library - there are atleast 12 artifacts for each module...
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Re:Atopile – design circuit boards fast – with code by napowderly on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @07:22PM (#44587926)
Fair enough! We definitely need a better landing page, we are just coming out of a long period of building, will all be getting some much needed polish soon!

Here is one of our more recent demo projects you can check out that shows how a larger project is structured: https://github.com/atopile/nonos/blob/main/elec/src/nonos.at...

And an example of modeling a component: https://github.com/atopile/packages/tree/main/packages/archi...

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