Show HN: Copper-KiCad – MCP to design PCBs in KiCad better and cheaper
Submitted by claynicholson. Show HN recorded 1 points and 0 comments as of Nov 14, 2026 (UTC).
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Repository: claynicholson/copper-kicad-mcp. The record contains the title “Show HN: Copper-KiCad – MCP to design PCBs in KiCad better and cheaper” but no substantive source summary.
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Source votes: 1 votes (Nov 14, 2026 UTC; cumulative since publication); previous same-scope observation: 1 (Nov 13, 2026 UTC). These observations do not establish demand growth. Recent records to compare: “Likely7/Veyra-NRVideo” (GitHub Trending, Nov 14, 2026); “Show HN: 2x cheaper real-time object tracking engine for video SOTA” (Show HN, Nov 13, 2026). Shared themes are navigation hints; they have not been verified as the same need or independent corroboration.
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