hey y'all, I'm Kenneth, founder of Diode. Cool to see this pop up here! We have lots planned for Diode and we'd love to hear what folks think about the product so far / what they could see it being used for in the future.
We started building Diode seriously at the beginning of September after I put a weekend project teaser out on twitter and got a decent amount of attention[1].
We want to build tools that make it 10x easier for anyone to get started hacking and building hardware. We're planning on adding microcontroller / single-board computer simulation pretty soon, which should make it a bit more interesting to play with!
Hi Kenneth. Looks like a good foundation! I'll keep an eye on it for sure. I've been using Crumb Simulator to build Ben Eater's SAP-1 computer. Do you plan to have a similar level of functionality for this?
Also, curious if you can comment on the state of the SPICE used for this. I see, e.g., that you have an astable multivibrator in the examples. Will this produce the same voltage levels and transition behavior that you would see in a real world circuit? I ask because I've built the same circuit in EveryCircuit, and while the macro behavior is close enough, it doesn't accurately reproduce what I get on a real breadboard from a signals level. In comparison, Multisim Live gets it right, but runs rather slow (in particular, pausing for a long time during the transition state with a lot of analog behavior to sort out).
Also curious what you have planned for visualization of signals.
We started building Diode seriously at the beginning of September after I put a weekend project teaser out on twitter and got a decent amount of attention[1].
We want to build tools that make it 10x easier for anyone to get started hacking and building hardware. We're planning on adding microcontroller / single-board computer simulation pretty soon, which should make it a bit more interesting to play with!
Can't wait to hear what y'all have to say!
[1] - https://twitter.com/KennethCassel/status/1564613912670216197...