[KeplerBoy]

Not a fan. The standard schematic abstraction is great and actually helps us parse circuits.

Don't add unnecessary complexity just because AIs are good at vibecoding threejs demos (edit: even if this particular demo seems to predate vibecoding and was likely used for training instead of being the product of inference).

[asystole]

So we're just using "vibe coded" as a generic insult now for project we don't like?

[KeplerBoy]

Well, it somehow gives off vibecoded vibes, even though it's not. Make of that what you want, but that's expressed in quite a few comments here.

Maybe it's just the extremely clean and generic presentation on the website without any links to the author / team / twitter.

[icedrift]

On the contrary, when I was in high school we had one class dedicated to digital electronics and it revolved around breadboard circuitry. You only had 30 minutes/day to tinker with the physical hardware then it had to be disassembled for the next class. Simulations like this are more approachable then schematics and would have been great for tinkering outside of class.

[throwaway290]

When I was a small child it was cool to play with circuitry (dad did some electronics) but as soon as I encountered components of different shape (a capacitor that looks like a resistor) it stopped making sense to me. thinking in schematics early is key

[colesantiago]

This is actually very cool and predates vibe coding, please stop gatekeeping.

[KeplerBoy]

I'll grant you the vibecoding comment. That was uncalled for and unjustified.

From an EE perspective I still see limited value in having a 3D breadboard. Having a standardized schematic language is really nice. Everybody knows how resistors, capacitors and transistors look like in a schematic, whereas they are all just little cuboids with varying number of pads in their smd packages. I recommend multisim blue for learning btw.

Nevertheless, a cool project and I should be more positive when commenting.

[IshKebab]

I don't think the vibecoding jab is warranted, but I agree this is a pretty terrible UI for electronic circuits. Schematic capture exists for a reason! It's not even difficult for beginners to understand if you have a decent UX (which for some reason seems to elude 90% of PCB software).

[globular-toast]

Got to agree. This is kind of pointless. Breadboards exist to make it easier to build physical circuits. I would also argue there is paedagogical value in actually playing with a physical breadboard. Having to physically orient things in 3D space is a small price you pay for building a physical prototype. This is all the downsides with none of the upsides.

[JKCalhoun]

The upsides are the measurement tools built in.