5 minutes, $0.52 in API fees and $5 each for fully assembled boards. Free and open source WholeBoard designed, laid out, checked inventory, cost reduced the BOM, simulated and documented a simple board that flashes 2 LEDs. It runs on your PC with local or cloud AI. Got an idea for a new board? What's stopping you downloading and trying WholeBoard?

Same weekend, three different models, four games. Qwen4-27B made the Atari-era style brawler. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next made the neon Tetris. Claude Opus 5.5 made the rally game and the 3D mech sim, and those two look PS2 level to me. The two Qwens run locally. Which one would you want to see build the next game?

~100 days ago Grok 4.5 came out and I thought it was a massive breakthrough. Today I'm running Qwen3.8-Flash-Next at Q6 on 10 year old hardware at ~40 tok/s, and on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index it scores 40 vs Grok 4.5 (high) at 39. Same chart attached. This is moving so fast.

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?

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.

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?

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.

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?

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?

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?