Astra really can do electronic projects now!
A user successfully utilized Astra for an electronic project, inspired by the Chatgpt Astra kicad demo. Despite using the lowest setting due to an OpenAI 20$/month plus subscription, the user completed a design in three hours with only five prompts before exhausting their usage resets. They compared Astra's current capabilities to AI coding in 2024, expressing curiosity about its future development.
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- Sep 7, 2026, 12:24
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I saw the Chatgpt Astra kicad demo, and wanted to try it out myself and im pretty damn impressed...! I only have a openai 20$/mo plus subscription so i had to use the lowest setting, but i got this design in 3 hours with 5 prompts in total before it ate up my 3 usage resets.
My only contributions to the design was to create the empty kicad template project, and the initial prompt:
"Lets test a esp32 design with a 24v input voltage which can output and read 4-20ma signals. Lets start planning!"
All design choices, component choices, design, schematics and, layout and documentation was done by the chatgpt astra 6 low through codex cli.
So final verdict? Its actually pretty damn usable.... Like, its not perfect by any means. some examples: There are a quite a few routing decisions i dont agree with, especially the USB routing and unneccesarry internal layer routing. The schematics are very hard to read as it doesnt use GND/Power symbols, and only use global labels instead of wires. But as far as i can tell from the schematic, this is a working design and i do agree with a lot of its component choices. But this was on its lowest effort setting with a 20$ subscription.....!
I feel it is pretty much where AI coding was in around 2024 (on its lowest setting), so im wondering where this will be in a year or two..!