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Wow, this is an excellent idea.

I can imagine building and ordering spare parts for defective and unsupported electronic devices that would prolong their life.

I can also imagine experimenting with building and fiddling with guitar pedal effects from the slew of existing schematics on the Web.

I think the hardest thing for me is going out finding and buying the parts. Some times I might have the time to assemble them but most of the time I wouldn't.

As much as I love what they're trying to do here, I can't help but feel that they need to work on some of the basics first. For example, if the parts you're using don't already have a footprint, etc set up on circuits.io you're pretty much screwed. Design a pad by inputting vertex coordinates? Seriously? It would be much better if you could choose a general shape and tweak the parameters from there – vertex coordinates should be left as a last resort.

Props to the team, though. I hope this gets traction.

heh. i just made a post the other day looking for advice for starting a hardware project. I'll check this out more later but it looks like it could be useful!

Plug: if anyone has experience making hardware projects (start to finish) and has some free time to lend some advice or would be interested in hearing what i want to make and maybe team up. email me!: me@jonovono.com

.io TLD is more and more geekish...

Awesome! Good luck.