hardware-ai
Vercel-hosted product engineering workspace that turns a product idea into a complete engineering package an engineering company can use to produce a first prototype.
What it does and how it connects
Hardware Foundry is a Vercel-hosted product engineering workspace that turns a product idea into a complete engineering package an engineering company can use to produce a first prototype. The user describes the device and constraints, reviews decisions, approves a design basis, and downloads a structured engineering dossier ZIP.
The package holds the product brief, functional architecture, engineering design report, device specification, candidate functional BOM, interface control document, firmware and mechanical plans, verification plan and manufacturing hand-off notes. The package is intentionally not a fabrication release: it is a briefing designed so a competent engineering firm can move quickly.
A separate native engineering worker runs KiCad, FreeCAD, PlatformIO and GCC toolchains, and its generators are evidence-gated: firmware compiles only with a verified PlatformIO board and reviewed source, a FreeCAD enclosure needs provenance-labelled dimensions, and KiCad ERC, DRC and Gerbers run only on real supplied project files. Missing evidence produces a clear BLOCKED status rather than invented files.
Alternatives
Compare side by side- Parts-builder
A marketplace for custom car parts ordered printed on demand, rather than a workspace producing an engineering dossier for a first prototype.
- offgrid-hardhub
A description-to-board agent loop in real KiCad with about 90 board tests, rather than a workspace producing an engineering dossier.
- NIATOLIP
A web agent that designs PCBs in tscircuit with KiCad export, rather than a workspace producing an engineering dossier.
- Mechanism-AI
A constraint-driven agent for planar four-bar linkages, rather than a workspace producing an engineering dossier.
Recurring errors it addresses
Error Index entries this tool is built to reduce or work around.
- Custom board support requires manual JSON/config work and poor documentation.Error Index
- PlatformIO support for Zephyr quietly ended, creating surprise workflow dead ends.Error Index
- A KiCad MCP bridge normalizes DRC, connectivity, and geometry into its own output format, and that normalized output can silently disagree with the native KiCad engine. The maintainer had to build seeded false-PASS and false-FAIL tests because the bridge layer cannot be trusted as engineering truth on its own.Error Index
- When an agent fans out parallel create calls through the FreeCAD MCP bridge, the shared connection races: the first object is created even though its call reports failure, and the second object is silently never created with the status still showing healthy.Error Index
Sources
Not verified
- License (no LICENSE file in the repository and no license stated in the README)
- Pricing (no price stated on the repository README)
- Real user voices (recent repo activity is the maintainer's own pull requests)
- A named individual builder beyond the repository owner handle heidif24
- A public release (no releases are published)
Last verified November 6, 2026. Listings are informational. The evidence score measures public, verifiable evidence and is not an endorsement or a compatibility claim.