Designing a circuit board has long been a craft of patience: place the parts, route hundreds of copper tracks, check the factory can build it, then start over when something does not fit. On November 9, 2026, Anthropic published results suggesting an AI model can now handle most of that loop. Working with the board maker Diode Computers, it asked Claude to design three gadgets from short prompts, and all three prototypes ran without any fixes to their circuitry.
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Pocket Breathalyzer for measuring blood alcohol content
The iBAC alcometer is a thumb-sized, portable, breathalyzer spectrometer that measures your blood alcohol content in a way that is similar to tests done at a laboratory.
It transmits the breathalyzer reading to your smartphone via Bluetooth where an application containing your bio data such as your weight and other physical characteristics analyzes the results in about a minute.
It will measure your degree of sobriety, your alcohol burning rate and will even forecast when you will have a z...
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