Show HN: Spice simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code
3 hours ago
- #Oscilloscope Validation
- #Claude Code
- #Hardware Development
- The author experimented with using Claude Code for hardware development, finding it effective for simpler circuits but challenging for complex ones when relying solely on natural language prompts.
- Access to an oscilloscope and SPICE simulator was provided to Claude for immediate feedback, enhancing validation of SPICE circuits, models, embedded programming, and data analysis, especially tedious tasks like normalizing time axes.
- Lessons learned include ensuring Claude doesn't guess physical setups, avoiding stale measurement data, not dumping raw data directly into context, providing explicit pinout maps for microcontrollers, and using prepared Makefiles for commands like build and flash.
- Related repositories include lecroy-mcp for LeCroy oscilloscope server, spicelib-mcp for SPICE library server, and rc-filter-demo-files for demo setups.