AprilTags in the Garden! My end-to-end home garden automation is coming along.
I needed stakes to hold up my drip irrigation and so this also gets me scaling and localization for my cameras and Codex / Claude Code integration.
AI Agents in the Garden
We just shipped AI component placement in Flux.
Watch it place a full board in real time.
It's the first time any tool has been able to do this. And it's only day one.
Flux can now place your PCB components.
Schematic β placement β routing β board. Every step AI-assisted, in one tool.
You steer it. AI builds it. Like vibe coding, but for hardware.
This has never been possible before. Try it now
me and @vaibcode are hosting another in-person unconference, this time at YC in SF (two weeks from today)
-> come in, write your talk idea on the whiteboard
-> someone goes first, then when they're done, they pick the next talk from the whiteboard they're interested in
-> add ideas throughout the day if you get inspired
coding agents, systems engineering, ai pipelines, all the good stuff
no sponsors, no pitches, just builders learning from each other
Saturday April 11th at 11am
LiteLLM HAS BEEN COMPROMISED, DO NOT UPDATE. We just discovered that LiteLLM pypi release 1.82.8. It has been compromised, it contains litellm_init.pth with base64 encoded instructions to send all the credentials it can find to remote server + self-replicate. link below
Proud to lead @BuildWithFlux's $27M Series B, ~7 years since writing the 1st check.
@MatthiasWagner had a visionary (read: crazy) idea: let anyone with a browser design & build electronics.
1M users and 6.5M projects later, the creative hardware revolution is here.
FluxAI is helping ensure that building in hardware feels a lot more like building in code.
Today, the AI-powered platform for hardware engineering announced $37M in funding, including a $27M Series B and a previously unannounced $10M Series A co-led by BCV.
Flux is building the worldβs first AI hardware engineer, doing for PCBs what Cursor and Claude Code did for software: collapsing iteration cycles, lowering the cost of experimentation and putting real capability directly in the hands of builders.
@matthiaswagner and team are challenging the OEM-centric model that made custom hardware slow, expensive and gatekept by specialists.
Speed, creativity and conviction now win.
Proud to be in their corner.
cc: @ajay_bcv@BuildWithFlux