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Re:Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't by okramcivokram on Thursday July 16, 2026 @05:38AM (#48932309)
You can check my own project doing the same. It's a one key keyboard that also can be set to jiggle the mouse a bit.

https://github.com/markomarkovic/nena-ilo-lili

Re:Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't by threecheese on Thursday July 16, 2026 @10:44AM (#48935322)
Did you use generative AI to design this? Superpowers plugin? This is cool, but if you did use AI that’s another level of cool :)

https://github.com/markomarkovic/nena-ilo-lili/blob/main/doc...

Re:Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't by Klaster_1 on Thursday July 16, 2026 @11:55AM (#48936256)
Agents are pretty good at this stuff, I coded a bike shifter button module with basically zero experience in the subject and it works pretty well: https://github.com/Klaster1/open-elin
Re:Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't by okramcivokram on Thursday July 16, 2026 @05:13PM (#48940339)
I did use claude code with superpowers plugin and whatever opus version was active at that time. I already had tried it on another project so I had FSM design ready and the decision to use uv and platformio and so it was a smooth run. Described what I want in a few prompts and finalized the spec then let it write it. Wired it up and tested on hardware and after a few small revisions it was done. Few days later improved the design and now it has been running and used since then without issues.