> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://grizzlyray.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # You Can Design Your Own Electronics Now. Adom Just Showed Me How. - URL: https://grizzlyray.com/ai-designs-your-own-electronics/ - Published: 2026-10-22T21:32:22.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-22T21:32:22.000Z - Description: Adom Industries just showed an AI designing a complete circuit board from one sentence. Here's what it did and why it makes electronics more accessible. - Author: Jacob Warren - Tags: AI, #hardware, #electronics, #practical-tech, #solo-builder I've watched a lot of AI demos this year. Most of them are about writing code or making images and videos. This one is about building a real circuit board, and it got me a bit more excited than I was expecting. Adom Industries, a small startup in Fort Worth, Texas, just posted a short video they titled "1st Ever: AI Designs a Complete PCB in Altium." It's under five minutes long. I highly recommend watching it first, and then we can go over the recap. ## Why This Got My Attention What's cool to me is how accessible building your own electronics is becoming with the help of AI. For most people, designing a circuit board has felt out of reach. You needed years of training, pricey software, and a lot of patience. Some of that is still true. But this video shows one sentence turning into a finished board design in under two hours. The ability for people to actively prototype ideas has just become incredibly simplified for the average hobbyist. ## What Adom Actually Built The board is a small power converter. Adom calls it a "buck converter." In plain words, it takes 12 volts in and gives you a steady 5 volts out, the kind of power a lot of small gadgets run on. It's about the size of a postage stamp, 28 by 20 millimeters. Here's the prompt their team typed, word for word: "Use adom-aiflow to design a 12 V to 5 V, 1 A buck converter using the TPS54202, and build it as a complete board in Altium Designer." Altium Designer is the professional software that engineers use to lay out circuit boards. Adom built a tool they call the Altium Bridge, which lets an AI agent (Claude, running inside Adom's Hydrogen app) drive Altium one step at a time and check its own work as it goes. Adom says nobody touched Altium during the run. ## What the AI Did, Step by Step Adom's CEO John and software engineer Colby walk through it in the video. Here's the recap. Based on Adom's description and write-up, the AI: - Picked the parts and pulled in their drawings and 3D models. - Drew the schematic, which is the wiring diagram for the board. - Tested the design in simulation before anything was built. Adom reports all 18 of its checks passed. - Placed the parts, routed the copper connections, and filled in the copper areas. - Checked current, heat, and electrical noise with Adom's own analysis tool, then reworked the board until it passed. - Exported the manufacturing files. That includes Gerbers (the files a board factory uses to make the board), a parts list, and placement files for the assembly machines. Adom says it took 1 hour 48 minutes from prompt to finished board, and used about 1% of the weekly limit on a $200 a month Claude plan. Adom also has a full write-up on their wiki with the project files, simulation results, and a 3D model: [https://wiki.adom.inc/kcknox/altium-buck-12v5v-molecule](https://wiki.adom.inc/kcknox/altium-buck-12v5v-molecule?ref=grizzlyray.com) ## The Honest Part, and Why I Like It Here's what I respect most. Adom doesn't hide the rough edges. Their wiki page has a section called "Open items before ordering," and they list the flaws themselves: - The board hasn't been built yet. Everything so far is design, simulation, and analysis. That matters because a board can pass every check on screen and still surprise you on the bench. - Altium kept a default board thickness that doesn't match what the design assumed. If you ordered it as is, the heat numbers wouldn't hold. Easy to fix, but only if you know to look. - One copper path is longer than their own target, and some printed labels crowd each other. - Their analysis flagged a possible ground loop and no protection diodes on the inputs and outputs. That list is a point in their favor. It tells me the tool is checking real things, and it tells you what a person still needs to review before spending money on boards. The AI did the heavy lifting. A human still makes the final call. ## What This Means for the Rest of Us This is part three of a series. Adom already built the same board in KiCad and Fusion 360, so it isn't tied to one expensive program. They also say it works with other AI agents, not only Claude. For a solo builder, a hobbyist, or a small business owner with an idea for a gadget, that's a big deal. The gap between "I have an idea" and "I have a board design I can order" is getting a lot smaller. You still need to learn enough to check the work. But you no longer need a whole engineering team to get started. Technology is a tool. It still needs the human piece. What's changing is how many people get to pick up the tool. ## Go Watch It and Follow Adom If any of this sparked something for you, watch the video, then follow Adom Industries on YouTube: [https://www.youtube.com/@adominc](https://www.youtube.com/@adominc?ref=grizzlyray.com) They're a small team building in the open, and they ask their viewers what they should build next. I'd love to see more people take them up on that. Here's my question: If you could describe a gadget in one sentence and get a board design back, what would you build first?