[Home](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/) Company News # Company News Read the latest company news, major product announcements, and team updates from Flux. Stay informed on the newest AI-powered hardware design features. Company updates, feature rollouts, engineering logs and hardware deep dives from the team building Flux. ## Latest release Company News ### [AI Can Finally Pay Off Hardware's Technical Debt](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/hardware-technical-debt-legacy-pcb-designs) Software teams use AI to fix code that sat untouched for decades. Hardware carries the same debt in legacy boards. Flux imports them, runs SPICE, debugs them from a symptom, and exports IPC-2581C. 5 Min Read · Ryan Fitzgerald · November 11, 2026 ## All news & releasesProduct releasesCompany newsEngineering logs NEWEST FIRST Company News ### [AI Can Finally Pay Off Hardware's Technical Debt](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/hardware-technical-debt-legacy-pcb-designs) Software teams use AI to fix code that sat untouched for decades. Hardware carries the same debt in legacy boards. Flux imports them, runs SPICE, debugs them from a symptom, and exports IPC-2581C. 5 Min Read · Ryan Fitzgerald · Nov 11, 2026 Company News ### [AI Hardware Engineering: Robots, Satellites, Vehicles, and the End of Legacy CAD](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/ai-hardware-engineering-robots-satellites-vehicles) AI will design robots, satellites, and vehicles. Matthias Wagner explains why better models and engineering environments are changing hardware engineering and the future of CAD. 9 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Nov 10, 2026 Engineering Log ### [Debug an Imported Altium Board From the First-Spin Symptom](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/first-spin-debug-imported-altium-board) Flux traced a 6 V rail reading to a feedback resistor on an imported Altium board, corrected the value, and made the BOM match. 5 Min Read · Ryan Fitzgerald · Nov 8, 2026 Engineering Log ### [Run SPICE on Your Imported Altium and Cadence Boards](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/spice-simulation-imported-altium-cadence-boards) Run built-in ngspice on existing circuits in imported Altium and Cadence boards. See DC, cutoff-frequency, and rise-time results from two commercial designs. 4 Min Read · Nico Tzovanis · Nov 8, 2026 Product Release ### [Circle it. Ask Flux. Markup mode is here](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/markup-mode) Draw on your schematic, board, or 3D view. Send a question with your marks, and the Flux agent sees the area you mean. 3 Min Read · Dirk Stoop · Nov 6, 2026 Company News ### [Your Design Is Your Company. Flux Does Not Train on It.](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/ai-hardware-design-no-training-on-your-data) Your design is your company. Flux does not train on customer data, and your inputs and outputs stay your IP. Here is what to ask any AI vendor before sharing the whole device. 5 Min Read · Dirk Stoop · Nov 5, 2026 [![](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/assets/resources/hero.webp)](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/resources) ### [Master PCB design with Flux Resources](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/resources) Guides across seven hubs, from schematics and high-speed layout to the business of building hardware. Product Release ### [Your PCB Fabrication Drawing Now Comes From the Design](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/pcb-fabrication-drawing) Every Gerber and ODB++ download from Flux now includes a fabrication drawing: assembly views, a drill legend, the stackup, rigid and flex regions, each copper layer, and 3D pictures of the board. Flux makes it from the design, so the drawing and the board always agree. 6 Min Read · Dirk Stoop · Nov 4, 2026 Company News ### [AI Moving a Mouse in Altium Is the Worst Way to Design a PCB](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/ai-computer-use-altium-pcb-routing) A frontier model drove Altium through its interface for 62 hours on an 8-layer DDR board. It connected 98.1% of the board, and the board still failed. Agents need the engineering, not the mouse. 7 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Nov 4, 2026 Engineering Log ### [Snap-Fit Design: How to Calculate a Cantilever Latch](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/snap-fit-design) Flux designs cantilever snap-fit latches around your board, calculates their strain and forces, and checks the fit. See the prompts, the formulas, and a worked enclosure lid example. 12 Min Read · Nico Tzovanis · Nov 2, 2026 Engineering Log ### [build123d Tutorial: Model a NEMA 17 Motor Bracket in Python](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/build123d-python-cad-motor-bracket) Flux writes the parametric CAD code for a NEMA 17 motor bracket from a plain-language prompt. A complete build123d worked example then builds the same bracket by hand, with selectors, fillets, holes, slots, and STEP export. 13 Min Read · Nico Tzovanis · Nov 2, 2026 Engineering Log ### [STEP vs STL: Which Should You Use for a PCB-to-Mechanical Handoff?](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/step-vs-stl) Use STEP for enclosure design and STL for printing. Follow a practical board-to-mechanical handoff with units, origins, component heights, and keepouts. 7 Min Read · Ryan Fitzgerald · Nov 2, 2026 Engineering Log ### [Embedded Unit Testing: Test Firmware Before the Board Arrives](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/embedded-unit-testing-before-hardware) Flux writes and runs embedded unit tests from your schematic, before the board arrives. See how, then follow a worked TMP117 driver example with a fake I2C bus, sanitizers, coverage, and CI. 12 Min Read · Ryan Fitzgerald · Nov 2, 2026 Engineering Log ### [FreeRTOS vs Zephyr: How to Choose an RTOS for a Connected Sensor](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/freertos-vs-zephyr) FreeRTOS is a small kernel you add to a vendor SDK. Zephyr brings its own drivers, Bluetooth, networking, and OTA. One connected sensor, built both ways, shows how the hardware picks the RTOS. 11 Min Read · Nico Tzovanis · Nov 2, 2026 Engineering Log ### [Tolerance Stack-Up: Let Flux Check Your PCB and Enclosure](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/tolerance-stack-up-pcb-enclosure) Flux analyzes worst-case and RSS connector clearance, then updates the board or enclosure. Follow a worked example that fixes a 0.15 mm minimum gap. 10 Min Read · Nico Tzovanis · Nov 2, 2026 Engineering Log ### [Creepage vs. Clearance: A Worked Example on an Isolated Power Board](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/creepage-and-clearance-pcb) Clearance is the air path between two conductors. Creepage is the surface path. Flux sets both as layout rules and checks the board and the enclosure. This worked example finds both for a 24 W isolated AC/DC supply. 10 Min Read · Ryan Fitzgerald · Nov 2, 2026 Engineering Log ### [Watchdog Timers That Catch Real Firmware Hangs](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/watchdog-timer-firmware-hangs) Ask Flux to write watchdog firmware and run host tests. Follow a complete RP2040 example with progress deadlines, reset-cause logging, and recovery. 12 Min Read · Ryan Fitzgerald · Nov 2, 2026 Engineering Log ### [Heat-Set Inserts: Hole Size, Boss Design, and PCB Mounting](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/heat-set-inserts-hole-size-pcb-mounting) Ask Flux to design PCB mounts with heat-set inserts. Follow a worked M3 example for hole size, boss dimensions, screw engagement, and print coupons. 10 Min Read · Ryan Fitzgerald · Nov 2, 2026 Engineering Log ### [LTspice Monte Carlo: Let Flux Check Your 3.3 V Rail](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/ltspice-monte-carlo) Ask Flux to simulate your 3.3 V rail and compare component-value cases. Follow the LTspice Monte Carlo example to compare 1,000 trials and eight worst-case corners, then choose feedback resistors. 10 Min Read · Ryan Fitzgerald · Nov 2, 2026 Company News ### [Bring Your Own Software to Flux](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/bring-your-own-software) Bring Altair, Altium, SOLIDWORKS, your in-house tools, and the tools Flux writes for you onto Flux's cloud computers. Set each one up once, and your whole team uses it in every project. 7 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Nov 2, 2026 Company News ### [The Future of AI Isn't Better Prompting. It's Agents That Drive Their Own Work.](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/ai-agents-hardware-design-self-directed-work) Flux plans, designs, checks, and iterates across the complete device. You follow the work in chat and steer the decisions that matter. 6 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Nov 2, 2026 Company News ### [AI Adoption Is a People Problem: How Flux Customer Success Gets Hardware Teams to ROI](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/ai-adoption-hardware-teams-customer-success) Hardware teams get a return on AI when engineers change how they work. Flux product experts onboard each team on a real project, write its standards into Flux, and review the design before manufacturing. 7 Min Read · Nico Tzovanis · Nov 2, 2026 Product Release ### [Flux Now Checks Your Sheet Metal Parts with OSH Cut](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/osh-cut-sheet-metal-checks) Flux can now send the sheet metal and tube parts it designs to OSH Cut. It checks that each part can be made, fixes what OSH Cut flags, and gets you a live quote, all in one chat. 3 Min Read · Ryan Fitzgerald · Nov 1, 2026 Company News ### [The AI Boom Is Eating Hardware's Parts. Fix Your BOM in Hours.](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/component-shortage-ai-boom-bom) AI data centers now outbid hardware teams for memory and silicon. Flux finds low-stock and long-lead parts across your electronics and mechanical BOM and swaps in replacements in hours. 5 Min Read · Nico Tzovanis · Nov 2, 2026 Product Release ### [Flux Is Now 70% Cheaper for AI Hardware Design](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/ai-hardware-design-more-work-per-credit) Flux is now about 70% cheaper to use. Design work that cost about $1,100 in late August now costs about $330, thanks to the latest models, Adaptive model selection, and our own tools. 3 Min Read · Dirk Stoop · Oct 31, 2026 Company News ### [Your AI Agent Can Outgrow Its Editor: Hardware Design Workflows Beyond EDA and CAD Features](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/ai-agent-hardware-design-workflows-beyond-eda-cad) An EDA or CAD editor gives you features. The Flux agent combines routing, length tuning, simulation, and checks into workflows that no single feature provides, for the board and the mechanical design. 10 Min Read · Nico Tzovanis · Oct 30, 2026 Company News ### [Automated PCB Manufacturing Needs Automated Design](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/automated-pcb-manufacturing-ai-design) Robotic lines now build low-volume circuit boards with no changeovers. The slow part is the handoff: Gerbers, zip files, and DFM emails. Here is why design and manufacturing data must stay in one project. 5 Min Read · Nico Tzovanis · Oct 30, 2026 Engineering Log ### [DDR Routing Without a Constraint Manager](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/ddr-routing-without-constraint-manager) DDR routing is a timing problem, not a constraint-editor task. Flux routes length-matched byte lanes and carries skew limits, topology, and timing budgets through layout changes. 8 Min Read · Ryan Fitzgerald · Oct 30, 2026 Product Release ### [PCB Design Review Without an Altium License: SI, PI, EMC, and DFM in Every Flux Plan](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/pcb-design-review-without-altium-license) SI, PI, EMC, and DFM review used to need an Altium or Cadence seat and a specialist. In Flux, the agent runs the review, fixes what it finds, and checks the mechanical parts too. 7 Min Read · Dirk Stoop · Oct 30, 2026 Engineering Log ### [How to Choose Decoupling Capacitors with PDN Simulation, Not Rules of Thumb](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/decoupling-capacitor-selection-pdn-simulation) The Flux agent picks decoupling capacitors from a PDN impedance simulation with real vendor ESR and ESL models, and checks load-step droop. No more 100 nF on every pin by habit. 7 Min Read · Ryan Fitzgerald · Oct 30, 2026 Product Release ### [PCB Signal Integrity Simulation for Every Board: S-Parameters, TDR, and Eye Diagrams in Flux](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/pcb-signal-integrity-simulation-every-board) Simulate routed signals in Flux, review S-parameters, TDR, crosstalk, and eye diagrams, then refine the routing and simulate again. 5 Min Read · Nico Tzovanis · Oct 30, 2026 Company News ### [AI Is Coming for Your CAD Skills. Let It.](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/ai-deskilling-hardware-engineers) Calculators deskilled long division, and nobody misses it. AI will do the same to hand-routing and redrawing enclosures. The job was never clicking in CAD. It was deciding what to build and making sure it works. 6 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 30, 2026 Product Release ### [Gerber File Check: The Flux Agent Checks Your Files Before Fabrication](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/gerber-file-check) Ask Flux to check Gerber layers, copper gaps, silkscreen, the board outline, DRC, BOM, and pick-and-place files before fabrication and assembly. 4 Min Read · Dirk Stoop · Oct 30, 2026 Company News ### [Stack Overflow for Hardware Engineering: Ask AI Inside Your Design](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/stack-overflow-for-hardware-engineering) Stack Overflow taught a generation to code by asking strangers. Hardware needs an engineer inside the design, working on the electronics and mechanical assembly together. 5 Min Read · Dirk Stoop · Oct 30, 2026 Company News ### [Cloud AI Agents: Your Project, Not Your Whole Laptop](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/cloud-ai-agent-security) Your AI agent needs your design files, not your SSH keys. Flux puts the agent in an isolated cloud workspace and keeps your secrets out of its view. 4 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 30, 2026 Company News ### [Using KiCad or Fusion Through MCP Is Like Sucking a Pizza Through a Straw](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/kicad-fusion-mcp-computer-use-ai-agents) MCP servers and computer use let AI agents drive desktop CAD tools one human-sized step at a time. Editing text files is not the answer either. Agents need direct access to the EDA and CAD kernels, and to the simulation and validation tools behind them. 5 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 29, 2026 Company News ### [How to Evaluate AI-Generated PCB Designs: Judge the Board by Whether It Works](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/how-to-evaluate-ai-pcb-design) It does not matter if an AI or a human designed a board. What matters is whether it works when it is manufactured: electrical validation, manufacturability, production yield, and the cost to design it. 6 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 29, 2026 Company News ### [The Touchscreen MacBook Pro Is Made for AI Hardware Design](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/touchscreen-macbook-pro-ai-hardware-design) Apple brought Touch to the Mac just as design input moves to text and voice. Tell the AI engineer what to change, then pinch, pan, and spin the board and its enclosure with your fingers. 3 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 29, 2026 Company News ### [There Is No Best AI Model for Hardware Engineering](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/no-best-ai-model-for-hardware-engineering) Every AI model has strengths and weaknesses, and the best model for one hardware task can be terrible at the next. The breakthroughs will come from domain-specific AI engineers that give each task to the model that does it best. 5 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 29, 2026 Company News ### [Hardware Simulation Is a Scoped Approximation. That Is Why It Works.](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/hardware-simulation-scoped-approximations) A full-board, coupled simulation of every electrical, thermal, and electromagnetic effect at interactive speed is not practical. The useful simulations are scoped approximations, and the skill is choosing the scope. 5 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 29, 2026 Company News ### [AI-Generated Hardware Designs Have to Work, Not Just Get Ordered](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/ai-generated-hardware-designs-that-work) Coding agents can generate hardware designs. Manufacturers already see what happens when those designs do not work. Making it easier for agents to order hardware does not fix that. Making sure the hardware works does. 5 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 29, 2026 Product Release ### [EDA and MCAD on Your Phone: Dictate the Hardware You Want to Build](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/eda-and-mcad-on-your-phone) Design hardware from your phone by voice. Tap the microphone, say what to build or change, and Flux does the PCB and mechanical work. Then check the result in 2D and 3D. 6 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 28, 2026 Product Release ### [Route Your Board in the Flux Chat: Pairs, Lengths, USB-C, Fanout, and Every Edit After](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/agentic-routing) Ask the Flux agent to route a complete board or only the nets you name. Route differential pairs, match lengths, fan out a BGA, break out USB-C, and change widths and layers. Then refine any route in the chat. 6 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 28, 2026 Product Release ### [OpenUSD in Flux: Move Your Device into Digital Twins and Physical AI Simulation](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/openusd-in-flux) Download a complete Flux device as OpenUSD, with its part names, colors, placement, and exact solids. Import a USD part, and let the Flux agent edit it. 4 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 27, 2026 Product Release ### [Sketch First, Then Build: How Flux Turns an Idea or a Photo into a 3D Device](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/sketch-to-3d-device) Describe a device in one sentence, or show Flux a photo. Flux draws a concept sketch around real parts. When you like the sketch, Flux uses it as the reference for the 3D model. 4 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 27, 2026 Company News ### [KiCad + Codex Isn’t a Team Workflow](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/kicad-plus-codex-not-a-team-workflow) AI coding took off with AI-native tools, not with agents bolted onto old IDEs. KiCad + Codex is an agent bolted onto a desktop tool. Flux is one shared environment for your team and its AI engineers. 4 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 26, 2026 Product Release ### [From Part to G-code in One Chat](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/from-part-to-gcode-in-one-chat) Ask Flux to machine the part that it designed. Flux makes the toolpaths for your mill and gives you the G-code, a toolpath preview, and a setup sheet, in the same project as the board and the enclosure. 3 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 27, 2026 Product Release ### [Flux Now Speaks Your Language: One Project for Your Whole Team, Across Borders](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/flux-speaks-your-language) The Flux interface is now available in 18 languages, and the Flux agent answers in the language that you write in. Engineers in different countries work in one live project, each in their own language. 5 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 26, 2026 Product Release ### [Any model. Same shortcuts. Slash commands are in Flux](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/slash-commands-any-model-same-shortcuts) Type / in the Flux chat box. You get the commands that you already know from your coding agent: start fresh, switch modes, pick a model, stop, or ask a side question. 3 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 23, 2026 Product Release ### [Electromagnetic Simulation of Your Routed Board, From the Flux Chat](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/em-simulation-of-your-routed-board) Ask the Flux agent to simulate a routed feed. On a real 2.4 GHz board, Flux put the ports on the copper, ran a full-wave simulation, and showed S11 of −33.7 dB and 51.9 Ω at 2.45 GHz, with a field map. 6 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 22, 2026 Product Release ### [Get Your Wiring Harness Quoted From the Design, Not From a Drawing](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/wire-harness-quotes-from-your-design) Ask Flux what the cables for your device cost. Flux reads the connectors and nets from your project, picks the mating housings and the wires, and gets a real price and lead time from a harness manufacturer. To order, open the checkout link with the cable already filled in. 5 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 21, 2026 Product Release ### [Teach Flux Your Team's Standards: Say It Once, and Every Project Follows It](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/teach-flux-your-team-standards) Tell the Flux agent a design rule once and accept the knowledge that Flux suggests. The agent then follows your standards in every project. 6 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 20, 2026 Product Release ### [Stop Sending STEP Files: Build the Whole Device Together, Live, in Flux](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/3d-view-collaborative-mcad) Stop sending STEP files. The Flux 3D View puts the board, the enclosure, and your team in one live model, and the agent changes electronics, mechanics, and firmware in one step. 6 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 21, 2026 Company News ### [Design Is the Easy Part. Flux Is Built for the Rest.](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/design-is-the-easy-part) AI will soon design hardware well. The hard part is what comes after: parts, factories, fit, tests, quotes, and orders. Flux is built for that part. 6 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 21, 2026 Product Release ### [Flux Agents Work as a Team: Side Threads, Parallel Work, and Agents in Other Projects](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/agent-teams-across-projects) The Flux agent starts side threads and agents in other Flux projects, runs them at the same time, and brings the results back to you. 4 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 21, 2026 Product Release ### [Flux Chat: Ask, Plan, and Spec Your Device for Free](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/flux-chat-free-ask-plan-spec) Flux Chat is free. Ask about your device, weigh electronics and mechanical trade-offs, and write the spec in your project. Then build it in Agent mode. 3 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 21, 2026 Product Release ### [Flux Adaptive: Frontier Performance at 30% Lower Cost](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/adaptive-agent-model) Adaptive gives each hardware engineering task to the model that does it best for the price, and runs many tasks at the same time. Frontier performance at 30% lower cost. 3 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 21, 2026 Product Release ### [Your API Keys, Used Safely: How the Flux Agent Reaches Distributors, Manufacturers, and Any Web API](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/agent-secrets-any-web-api) Give the Flux agent your own API keys for distributor pricing, PCB and 3D-print quotes, and any web API, for example Golioth or Arena PLM. The agent sees only a placeholder. 3 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 21, 2026 Product Release ### [Product Videos From Your Design: Flux Makes Launch Clips of the Device It Built](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/product-videos-from-your-design) Ask the Flux agent for a video of the product it designed. It makes launch clips, vertical clips, product ads, and multi-shot stories from your board or enclosure. 6 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 20, 2026 Product Release ### [Flux in Your AI Tools: Use the Flux Agent From Claude Code, Cursor, and Any MCP Client](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/flux-mcp-in-your-ai-tools) Connect the Flux MCP server to Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP client. Your agent reads your Flux projects and hands design jobs to the Flux agent. 6 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 20, 2026 Product Release ### [Edit Your Existing STEP Files with the Flux Agent](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/edit-imported-step-files) Upload a STEP, IGES, or BREP file, and the Flux agent rebuilds it as editable CAD code, makes your change, and saves a new model. Your original file stays unchanged. 3 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 20, 2026 Product Release ### [Smooth Surfaces with NVIDIA SMLib: Zebra Stripes, Curvature Combs, and Cross Sections in Flux](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/smooth-surfaces-nvidia-smlib) Flux builds curvature-continuous surfaces with NVIDIA SMLib. Check them in the 3D View with zebra stripes, a curvature map, curvature combs, and a cross section through the enclosure. 4 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 20, 2026 Product Release ### [Interactive Pages in Flux Project Files](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/interactive-project-pages) Ask Flux for a one-off engineering tool, and the agent builds it as an interactive page in the project's Files tab: a filter plot, converter waveforms, an eye diagram, or a 3D heat sink. 4 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 20, 2026 Company News ### [How to Adopt Flux as a Team](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/how-to-adopt-flux-as-a-team) Moving a hardware team to Flux is a change in how engineers work: define intent, direct the AI, verify the result. Six mindset shifts and a four-week pilot plan. 7 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Oct 18, 2026 Product Release ### [Custom Hardware Enclosures by Flux: From PCB to Product in Hand](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/hardware-enclosure-design) Flux now designs custom hardware enclosures directly from your PCB. Generate manufacturable, 3D-printable cases with cutouts and mounting holes that stay in sync with your board. 5 Min Read · Dirk Stoop · Sep 24, 2026 Company News ### [AI is Collapsing CAD](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/ai-is-collapsing-cad) AI is collapsing the walls between electrical, mechanical and firmware engineering — so the whole device can now be designed in one conversation. 2 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Sep 30, 2026 Product Release ### [Seamless collaboration between you, Flux, and other AI agents](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/summer-2026-updates-flux-mcp-server-and-chat-mode) A public MCP server lets Claude, Cursor and Codex drive Flux directly — plus Chat mode, voice input, and better placement and routing. 2 Min Read · Dirk Stoop · Aug 3, 2026 Product Release ### [Flux April 2026 release: upgrades that make a real difference](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/flux-april-2026-release-upgrades-that-make-a-real-difference) True 1:1 screen scaling, faster editing, Eagle and PADS import, and a streamlined path for creating your own parts. 4 Min Read · Nico Tzovanis · Apr 2, 2026 Product Release ### [Spring 2026 Updates: Faster AI, Better Layouts, Smarter Sourcing](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/spring-2026-updates-faster-ai-better-layouts-smarter-sourcing) Self-correcting agents, a stronger auto-layout engine, and live supply chain data now built into the design flow. 5 Min Read · Nico Tzovanis · Mar 13, 2026 Company News ### [We raised $37M to take the hard out of hardware](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/we-raised-37m-to-take-the-hard-out-of-hardware) New funding goes straight into faster agents and a stronger platform for the engineers building real hardware. 3 Min Read · Lance Cassidy · Feb 27, 2026 Product Release ### [10x Faster & Self-correcting: Feb 2026 Update](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/10x-faster-self-correcting-feb-2026-update) A redesigned agent architecture runs work in parallel and verifies as it goes, cutting schematic design time dramatically. 3 Min Read · Lance Cassidy · Feb 12, 2026 Product Release ### [Design with Real-Time Supply Chain Visibility](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/design-real-time-supply-chain-visibility-2026) Live pricing and availability surface inside the editor, so sourcing problems show up during design instead of after it. 2 Min Read · Lance Cassidy · Jan 29, 2026 Product Release ### [The First AI Hardware Engineer](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/the-first-ai-hardware-engineer) Planning and execution now run as one autonomous multi-step workflow, with you reviewing and steering at each checkpoint. 5 Min Read · Lance Cassidy · Oct 7, 2025 Engineering Log ### [SNES Controller Deep Dive: Ergonomics, Buttons and Features](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/snes-controller-deep-dive-ergonomics-buttons-and-features) A teardown of the input device that set the template for modern controllers — the dog-bone grip, the diamond button layout, and the shoulder buttons nobody had tried before. 5 Min Read · Jharwin Barrozo · Nov 2, 2026 Product Release ### [8 New AI Capabilities for Faster PCB Design](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/8-new-ai-capabilities-for-faster-pcb-design) Eight new Copilot shortcuts that collapse common design and analysis chores into a single prompt. 2 Min Read · Collins Emasi · Jul 11, 2024 Product Release ### [Flux for Enterprise: AI-Driven Hardware Design at Scale](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/flux-for-enterprise-ai-driven-hardware-design-at-scale) An enterprise plan pairing AI design assistance with the access controls and security larger hardware teams need. 4 Min Read · Lance Cassidy · Jan 25, 2024 Engineering Log ### [Circuit Gardens: Wallpaper Series Merges Engineering & Nature](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/circuit-gardens-wallpaper-series-merges-engineering-nature) A free set of 4K wallpapers where plants grow circuit traces — made for the wall behind your bench. 4 Min Read · Brooks Solveig · Nov 30, 2023 Company News ### [A New Home for Open-Source Hardware](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/a-new-home-for-open-source-hardware) Free organization accounts give open-source hardware projects a shared home with real collaboration tooling. 3 Min Read · Lance Cassidy · Oct 19, 2023 Product Release ### [Introducing Flux for Organizations: A New Way to Collaborate in Hardware](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/introducing-flux-for-organizations-a-new-way-to-collaborate-in-hardware) Organization accounts bring shared workspaces, central controls and custom AI settings to hardware teams. 3 Min Read · Lance Cassidy · Oct 19, 2023 Company News ### [The Future of Electronics Design](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/the-future-of-electronics-design) Four years into taking the hard out of hardware — electrical engineers on what Flux and Copilot changed for them. 2 Min Read · Lance Cassidy · Oct 12, 2023 Company News ### [A Flux Birthday Special: A Look Back at Four Years of Flux](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/a-flux-birthday-special-a-look-back-at-four-years-of-flux) Four years from private beta to 100,000 engineers — the releases, the misses and the community along the way. 4 Min Read · Lance Cassidy · Oct 4, 2023 Engineering Log ### [Improving User Interaction Performance: Introducing log-time-to-next-idle Tool](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/improving-user-interaction-performance-introducing-log-time-to-next-idle-tool) An open-source tool that measures real interaction latency by watching when the CPU actually returns to idle. 5 Min Read · Greg Dingle · Nov 2, 2026 Engineering Log ### [Convert your Typescript codebase to No Unchecked Indexed Access](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/convert-your-typescript-codebase-to-no-unchecked-indexed-access) Turning on noUncheckedIndexedAccess across a large codebase without hand-fixing thousands of call sites. 5 Min Read · Greg Dingle · Nov 2, 2026 Engineering Log ### [How to replicate data from the main thread to a web worker using ImmerJS](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/how-to-replicate-data-from-the-main-thread-to-a-web-worker-using-immerjs) Immer patches move layout state into a Web Worker cheaply, keeping the editor responsive under load. 5 Min Read · Greg Dingle · Nov 2, 2026 Company News ### [Flux Public Launch Announcement](https://flux.seobdtools.com/p/blog/flux-public-launch-announcement) Flux leaves private beta: browser-based, collaborative PCB design open to everyone. 8 Min Read · Matthias Wagner · Feb 16, 2023 ## Let’s start building. 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