Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-13
Fragua — AI-Native PCB Design
An open-source Rust tool where an agent designs circuit boards through a local script API while a human watches and steers the live canvas.
Why it surfacedFragua treats the script API as its product surface: an agent can move from schematic and placement through routing, DRC, and a JLCPCB-ready fabrication zip. Its RP2040 example, MIT license, and emphatic “No KiCad. No FreeRouting.” positioning give this unusually specific hardware experiment a clear point of view.
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Thirty Patents for the Grave
August 13’s newborn domains include 30 safety-coffin patents, lost notices for false teeth and a box of hair, short films playing in 100 Tokyo taxis, and a Queensland river view arranged gauge by gauge downstream.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-13 Domain Arrivals issue.