[sdiy] First exchanges with ChatGPT... program code extract + conversion.. AWESOME !!!

[Nicolás Dinapoli Fariña]

Outstanding.On the thread about Scott Lee passing away, I wrote about porting the old PAiA software to something sinple like arduino. I then remembered posting about it, maybe here, maybe on electro-music.I suppose now this is the way to go about it.
 
 
  El mié., 6 de may. de 2026 a la(s) 13:05, Todd Sines via Synth-diy<synth-diy at synth-diy.org> escribió:   I have tried it with Claude CLI. It weirdly would add all of the symbols, but not make all (or barely any) connections in Kicad. 
I will try again with a Claude MCP <–> Kicad (there are several, some free, some not); hopefully it will yield better results.https://mcpmarket.com/es/tools/skills/kicad-electronics-design
I got a pretty successful looking rigid body simulation of 100,000 grains of sand inside an hourglass using Claude, MCP, Python, and Blender just by providing it reference images. After a lot of steering, has figured out how to attack my project; like a first date a metal concert, after a lot of head-banging and hand holding, I got a lot further than I would have on my own.
If it can handle that, maybe it can handle your needs as well.
Todd


On May 6, 2026, at 11:37 AM, Sean Ellis via Synth-diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
You can feed kicad to claude and get layout suggestions so I dont doubt it could trace a circuit. 
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Subject: Re: [sdiy] First exchanges with ChatGPT... program code extract + conversion.. AWESOME !!! Quite probably, if you also gave it the inputs, outputs, and BOM.

On 06/05/2026 10:18, Mike Bryant wrote:
I wonder if you gave it photos of the top and bottom of a 2 layer loaded PCB whether it could create a schematic ? 😄From: Synth-diy <synth-diy-bounces at synth-diy.org> on behalf of Eric Frampton <eric at ericframpton.com>
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Subject: Re: [sdiy] First exchanges with ChatGPT... program code extract + conversion.. AWESOME !!! I’m actually working on that very thing for a particular favorite old synth of mine. Stay tuned.

On May 5, 2026, at 6:53 PM, el macaco via Synth-diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
Yes this is a great result! Had me thinking if this could take an OS for an old synth or sampler and optimize or improve it.  Still would help to have it in the hands of someone who understands the code and could catch errors.
Congrats! 


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Subject: Re: [sdiy] First exchanges with ChatGPT... program code extract + conversion.. AWESOME !!! Yes. It’s for translating things.Benjamin Tremblay

On May 5, 2026, at 3:07 PM, Steve via Synth-diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:




Actually, the described scenario is where I would have expected LLMs to likely produce good results. Two available, very comprehensive set of rules, and then transforming from one to the other.
Not many more levels above that, except to understand the relatively straightforward goal of the user. At least if the two architectures are reasonably close in what they can do, instruction wise, w.r.t. the subset used by the code to be translated.
Here, one does not expect of the "AI" to have a grand, actual understanding of things which it does not have.
On 05.05.2026 16:35, Tom Wiltshire wrote:



On 5 May 2026, at 14:54, Mike Bryant <mbryant at futurehorizons.com> wrote:I think we were all so gobsmacked by it working there was nothing left to say 😄

Yep, this exactly! It's pretty amazing that this came off.
Well done, J-P!
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