Nigel Hungerford-Symes

Lead on PCB design software TraceMaker ( and LLM visualisation llm-visuals (

[Nigel Hungerford-Symes @VectorCrossProd]

@will_whang I would love to see how far TraceMaker could auto route this board: https://t.co/vdP6pxOxPV

[Nigel Hungerford-Symes @VectorCrossProd]

@10_X_eng @dhh Do you have the full GPU acceleration working? that is always the big issue with Jetsons and not using Jetpack.

[Nigel Hungerford-Symes @VectorCrossProd]

@alexokita Thanks, I love to keep it simple with SSH and then max out what is happening. If I can't see my model doing a 5 minute preload, I'll think it is stalled and kill it. So this is really important information with local LLMs

[Nigel Hungerford-Symes @VectorCrossProd]

llm-visuals 0.14 is out. Watch your local LLM think, live in the terminal. New this time: alerts that speak up once when a card fills up or runs hot, an expert balance view that shows whether the MoE router is spreading work or collapsing onto a few experts, and a memory pipeline view that shows where the tokens wait. Free and open source. What should it show next?

[Nigel Hungerford-Symes @VectorCrossProd]

https://t.co/te6pzgKwP4

[Nigel Hungerford-Symes @VectorCrossProd]

@MarkPommrehn Thanks, I try :)

[Nigel Hungerford-Symes @VectorCrossProd]

Kookabus crew episode 5: the I2C bus. Wrong address, NACK. Bridge A0, 0x14 + 1 = 0x15, ACK. Every board on the bus needs its own address, and Kookabus-02 gives you 0x14 to 0x17 with two solder pads. Next up, the servo showdown. Which board should get an episode after that?

[Nigel Hungerford-Symes @VectorCrossProd]

@VRAMCalculator Thanks for the mention. Good to see the P100 on there, mine is still working hard as an expert cache next to the V100.

[Nigel Hungerford-Symes @VectorCrossProd]

@SangSastra That would be a big one. If you know of an open source phone board in KiCad, send it my way.

[Nigel Hungerford-Symes @VectorCrossProd]

Mac folks, the open-source KiCad autorouter now builds on macOS 15 and 26 with a Metal backend (huge thanks to Chris Hemingway). TraceMaker 0.11 also adds a run report that explains every connection, plus a new docs site. 177/177 on a Teensy audio board. What should I route next?

[Nigel Hungerford-Symes @VectorCrossProd]

@AlexanderJoh10 Ha nice. Which Mistral model are you running?

[Nigel Hungerford-Symes @VectorCrossProd]

Who needs an internet connection to have AI design PCBs? The open-source WholeBoard now searches for any local models running and uses them. Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, vLLM, Jan, Strata. One click and it's designing boards at $0 per million tokens. What are you running locally?

[Nigel Hungerford-Symes @VectorCrossProd]

https://t.co/qSANa9frXG

[Nigel Hungerford-Symes @VectorCrossProd]

Local LLM hoarders, this one's for you. model-space scans your box for every GGUF, safetensors and Ollama model, shows what's eating each disk, and moves or deletes them without breaking your services. Mine found 96 models and 2.6 TiB. Free and open source, link below.

[Nigel Hungerford-Symes @VectorCrossProd]

All the boards: https://t.co/zv9PFPba3l

[Nigel Hungerford-Symes @VectorCrossProd]

@swkkadjo Opus 5.5 is the best model for boards. Trying DeepSeek4.1-flash 1017 and glm5.3 now

[Nigel Hungerford-Symes @VectorCrossProd]

Your AI PCB designer doesn't need to live on the same machine anymore. WholeBoard now searches your whole LAN for local model servers and lets you pick one with a click. Still free and 100% open source, and the code's in the repo below.

[Nigel Hungerford-Symes @VectorCrossProd]

@DorleenSullivan nice :)

[Nigel Hungerford-Symes @VectorCrossProd]

@SenMcDonald Very cool to see, thanks for posting

[Nigel Hungerford-Symes @VectorCrossProd]

@ZYR_AGENTAI Yes it focuses on OpenAI compatible end points and supports a lot of different server types.

[Nigel Hungerford-Symes @VectorCrossProd]

@GodResourceInc For which part, adding the themes? I think it was just somethin like, plan out more than 10 themes then it told me what the plan was and I said implement.

[Nigel Hungerford-Symes @VectorCrossProd]

Designing PCBs doesn't have to look boring. WholeBoard, my open-source PCB tool, now ships with 11 themes, from retro Amber terminal to drafting-paper Blueprint. Adding your own is just one CSS block. Which would you run?

[Nigel Hungerford-Symes @VectorCrossProd]

@Compilethings I have too many ideas, too many tokens and too many servers to leave idle :P

[Nigel Hungerford-Symes @VectorCrossProd]

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