Past guests Matt Liberty (Joulescope) and Luke Beno (Werewolf.us) join Chris to talk through using AI tooling for small businesses in the hardware and firmware space. Both have built custom ERP systems, among many other tooling for their businesses, in a fast moving environment.
Welcome back Matt Liberty (Joulescope) and Luke Beno (Werewolf.us)
- Matt has been a guest on episodes 527 and 607
- Luke was a guest on episode 272
- Luke launched a new cable manufacturing and power supply company in the US called Werewolf.us
- Matt is working on the JS320
- We discussed how PartsBox is a great ERP solution but Matt and Luke decided to go fully custom with Claude Code. Jan Rychter was a guest on episode 542
- We discussed the differences with Product Lifecycle Maintenance. Michael Corr of the recently acquired Duro Labs was on episode 577
- CAM workflow
- A fully verticalized PCB factory is something Jonathan Hirschmann talked about on episode 299
- Jeff Bezos is investing 100B in a fund that is looking at automation in the factory using AI
- Matt recently had success with Claude Code and verilog programming
- Saleae for hardware in the loop using their APIs
- Other tools to check out
- pyelf
- pdfdk blast
- superpowers skill (by past guest at Teardown Jesse Vincent)
- Luke used OpenClaw to power a chat agent in his ERP system
- Working with distributors
- TI backlog
- Chris recently learned that Digikey has a developer API
- Cocotb verification framework (in Python)
- Luke is working on vision experiments for inhouse developed AOI solutions