🎃 Hardware Halloween with CopperPilot

​Spend a Saturday morning in HSR Layout designing a multi-layer PCB with AI agents doing the heavy lifting. No prior AI-in-hardware experience needed. If you design boards and write firmware, this is for you.

​We'll build a Raspberry Pi CM5 carrier board live, in KiCad. You'll walk away knowing what AI can do for hardware today, what still needs an engineer's eye, and how to tell the difference.

​What's the plan? ☕ Coffee and a quick setup desk 🧠 Walk through the problem, then fire off the first prompt in KiCad 🔍 Review the generated plan together and poke at the connectors, layer count and constraints 🛠️ Check ERC/DRC, inspect the 3D view, make a surgical edit, and run a JLCPCB audit to fix a real finding 🎯 Optional twist: change a constraint (ports, layers, camera) and make the board your own 📸 Showcase of everyone's boards and a group photo

​Who's CopperPilot? We're THE AI Agent for hardware design, already used by teams at Dexory, Becton-Dickinson, Wingtra, Hubble and Temple across PCBs, firmware and 3D CAD. We've used it to build Pi CM5 carrier boards, custom Jetson base boards, drones, motor controllers and more.

​Stick around after the wrap-up for open hacking and office hours, especially if you're at a larger company and want to talk about fitting this into your team's workflow.

​Bring your charged laptop, your curiosity, and come ready to build.