#722 – AI Tooling with Matt Liberty and Luke Beno

Welcome back Matt Liberty (Joulescope) and Luke Beno (Werewolf.us)

• Matt has been a guest on episodes 527 and 607
• Luke was a guest on episode 272
• Luke launched a new cable manufacturing and power supply company in the US called Werewolf.us
• Matt is working on the JS320
• We discussed how PartsBox is a great ERP solution but Matt and Luke decided to go fully custom with Claude Code. Jan Rychter was a guest on episode 542
• We discussed the differences with Product Lifecycle Maintenance. Michael Corr of the recently acquired Duro Labs was on episode 577
• CAM workflow
• A fully verticalized PCB factory is something Jonathan Hirschmann talked about on episode 299
• Jeff Bezos is investing 100B in a fund that is looking at automation in the factory using AI
• Matt recently had success with Claude Code and verilog programming
• Saleae for hardware in the loop using their APIs
• Other tools to check out
  • pyelf
  • pdfdk blast
  • superpowers skill (by past guest at Teardown Jesse Vincent)
• Luke used OpenClaw to power a chat agent in his ERP system
• Working with distributors
• TI backlog
• Chris recently learned that Digikey has a developer API
• Cocotb verification framework (in Python)
• Luke is working on vision experiments for inhouse developed AOI solutions