ViktorEE

Hey,

Are you interested in partnerships? I'm running pcbjam.com (web port of KiCad with collab, sharing, git, AI etc.) and I'm looking for a partner to do what EasyEDA is to JLC. Where can I find you?

Location: EU/Hungary Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: React, Node, Kubernetes, Scala, ProseMirror, Postgres, Firebase, AWS, Supabase, Wasm

Résumé/CV: https://emergence-engineering.com

Email: [email protected]

Hey!

We’re Emergence Engineering, a small-ish dev shop from the EU. Part of our team is looking for work, we’ve been working for US & UK based startups for a while now. https://demo.pcbjam.com/ ( KiCad, a big desktop app's web port ) is our side project, and through that we've learned a lot about Wasm and the tech around it, we'd love to work on something similar.

Also good with ops, AI & rich text editors ( ProseMirror ).

We look for a place where we can make a difference and do interesting work with a lot of responsibility, the team is well balanced meaning that we have exploring / figuring out and executing types.

Still on my KiCad browser product. We'll launch a private beta next week, and the open product in a few weeks.

Thank you!

Thanks!!!

I mean... It took quite a lot of time... Like months until I got the first dialog.

Thanks, We did not yet think trough the git integration, but I don't see why we couldn't add a "commit" / "push" button and pull from git.

The main thing we'll add to KiCad aside from browser version is shareable footprint/symbol libraries (private, public etc.), and organizations (with their own libs etc.). We're not 100% clear on the details yet.

If you have the time reach out to me at viktor dot vaczi at emergence-engineering.com, I'd love to hear what you need.

Yeah, this is not optimized to mobile yet. My Iphone 13 pro did open once, didn't check further. Sometimes it works if you open it on a new tab ( memory issues ).

It's on the "roadmap", someday I'll take some time to take a look at the autorouting situtation. I have a few ideas.

To my former self two days ago: if you work almost a year on something take two days to polish a demo.

I love that too, the sad part is that ~30% of our visitors ( from Plausible ) are on Safari which is... Not good :) No threads for ya there. At least it works.

Yes! That's the plan for "marketing". And yes, we'll have to usual "follow" features ( without the popups etc which doesn't really suit your usecase ), chat ( maybe voice chat? ).

Thanks!!

Yea, it sounds worse than it felt in that light lol. You have a point. In hindsight I should've taken a day or two for writing a good copy, I was just very impatient and wanted to push this out.

To be fair, this is not "the project" yet, just a first preview. I'm an engineer, doing things like this is "work", optimizing the bundle size is fun. Sorry.

Yea, it makes sense. JLC already own EasyEDA, it's an interesting matchup for sure.

You're wrong! It was two prompts! Jokes aside, you're right. I wanted to have something up quickly. Before the real launch ( and not just this demo ) I'll write one by hand, I'm against AI written copy / blogposts, just could not find the headspace to focus.

Again, thanks for the feedback, I'll take it!

Nope, not at all. This is the original KiCad sources with some modifications to make it run in a browser. As far as I know kicanvas renders PCBs, we can do the whole workflow ( create a schematic => pcb => DRC checks, exports etc ).

To open a demo board click "Open" in the Projects/Demo board section then "Open in PCB Editor" at demo.kicad_pcb in Files.

Next time I'll make a smoother demo...

Yea, I'll add it in the next deploy. Thanks! Right now it's about ~30 MB for the big app ( 2 editors + footprint + symbol ).

thanks! one thing we did not port is the plugin system: it's quite hard to run python on the web ( AFAIK pyodide is not enough here ) and I've heard that it will be deprecated in the next version.

The KiCad editor's state is accessible from the web app, we'll do some kind of plugin system like Figma's or just implement these functions as an overlay. We'll see, thanks for the tip!

Happy to answer any questions & feel free to reach out ( email in my profile )!

KiCad web port, with real time collaboration. I've been working on it for the last ~6 months on and off, I have some help now. It's close, we're launching in a few weeks ( hopefully this one ).

It was an interesting project since there were so many unknowns, like can we really turn an offline desktop app into a collaborative one, can it be fast enough, can we port the graphics parts. It turns out you can! I have a semi-vibe coded landing page now, you can sign up to get into the alpha cohort: https://www.pcbjam.com/

The way I've solved this issue with a long running build script is to have a logging scripts which redirects all outputs into a file and can be included with ``` # Redirect all output to a log file (re-execs script with redirection) source "$(dirname "$0")/common/logging.sh" ``` at the start of a script.

Then when the script runs the output is put into a file, and the LLM can search that. Works like a charm.

That's a neat idea! To be honest my brain is overflowing with ideas too, right now I want to just bring all the apps one. Or... Actually just bring the layout editor up first :) I'm trying hard to live in the present...

I did check kicanvas, but I didn't know about circutsnips, I had the same idea for years! It's great!

Heyythanks! Feel free to bug me at viktor.vaczi(at)emergence-engineering.com I'd love to chat about it :)

I'm working on porting KiCad to the browser. It's a lot of sweat and tears, multithreading issues and some more sweat. I've updated a port of WxWidgets and now I support all the features KiCad needs with ~200 tests.

Right now I have a build that loads in the browser, but I really want to have "multithreading" which means workers in the web. One can use asyncify with emscripten to translate blocking C++ to WASM, but that transition is not perfect, right now I'm debugging a bug where there's a race condition that halts all execution and the main thread runs in an infinite loop waiting for the workers to stand up. I guess I'll have a few of those ahead.

The main goal is to 1. just have fun 2. use yjs as a collab backend so multiple people can edit the same PCB. This will probably work with pcbnew, KiCad's layout editor, since it has a plugin system and AFAIK I can do the sync layer there. For the rest ( schematic, component editor etc. ) I'll have to figure out something.. KiCad does not sync automatically if you modify a file, I'll have to do some lifting there.

Anyway, it's a lot of fun, I really want this thing to exist, I'm hoping that I won't run into a "wellll, this is just not going to work" kind of issue in the end.

SEEKING WORK | Location: EU/Hungary | Remote: Yes | Willing to relocate: No Technologies: React, Node, Kubernetes, Scala, ProseMirror, Postgres, Firebase, AWS, Supabase Résumé/CV: https://emergence-engineering.com Email: [email protected]

Hey! We’re Emergence Engineering, a small-ish dev shop from the EU. Part of our team is looking for work, we’ve been working for US & UK based startups for a while now. Our team is:

- React / Node / Embedded senior dev ( me )

- Scala / React / Node / Blockchain / GPT / Kubernetes / DevOps senior dev

- Scala / React / Node / Kubernetes / DevOps senior dev

- Two devs with deep React / Node knowledge between mid and senior level

- Two very good medior devs with React knowledge

We look for a place where we can make a difference and do interesting work with a lot of responsibility, the team is well balanced meaning that we have exploring / figuring out and executing types.

Location: EU/Hungary

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: React, Node, Kubernetes, Scala, ProseMirror, Postgres, Firebase, AWS, Supabase

Résumé/CV: https://emergence-engineering.com

Email: [email protected]

Hey!

We’re Emergence Engineering, a small-ish dev shop from the EU. Part of our team is looking for work, we’ve been working for US & UK based startups for a while now. Our team is:

- React / Node / Embedded senior dev ( me )

- Scala / React / Node / Blockchain / GPT / Kubernetes / DevOps senior dev

- Scala / React / Node senior dev

- Two devs with deep React / Node knowledge between mid and senior level

- Two very good junior-medior devs with React knowledge

We look for a place where we can make a difference and do interesting work with a lot of responsibility, the team is well balanced meaning that we have exploring / figuring out and executing types.

Location: EU/Hungary

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: React, Node, Kubernetes, Scala, ProseMirror, Postgres, Firebase, AWS, Supabase

Résumé/CV: https://emergence-engineering.com

Email: [email protected]

Hey!

We’re Emergence Engineering, a small-ish dev shop from the EU. Part of our team is looking for work, we’ve been working for US & UK based startups for a while now. Our team is:

- React / Node / Embedded senior dev ( me )

- Scala / React / Node / Blockchain / GPT / Kubernetes / DevOps senior dev

- Scala / React / Node senior dev

- Two devs with deep React / Node knowledge between mid and senior level

- Two very good junior-medior devs with React knowledge

We look for a place where we can make a difference and do interesting work with a lot of responsibility, the team is well balanced meaning that we have exploring / figuring out and executing types.