ProtoFlow is the new step zero for electronic design. Through its modern interface, universal component search, and powerful AI assistant, ProtoFlow optimizes the schematic design portion of PCB making, slicing hours off of the process. The service is free to use, and exports smoothly to softwares like KiCad and Altium, allowing users at any skill level to fully optimize their schematic design.
Hey y’all! As an ECE major at The University of Texas, I’ve had to work a lot with designing PCB boards between classes and clubs and side projects. Typically I defaulted to using KiCad because that’s what was most accessible to me, and most of the alternatives were either crazy expensive or lackluster in their feature sets. While KiCad is a fully functional software, I realized I was wasting hours of time on tasks that could be easily automated with modern upgrades.
For the past few months I’ve been working on ProtoFlow to solve these issues. I’ve essentially given KiCad a modern facelift, and have added tools to it that drastically reduce the amount of time it takes to design schematics (such as universal component search and automatic wire cleanup). Additionally, I’ve incorporated an AI driven assistant within the software to help create new schematics based on a prompt alone, or edit an editing schematic for accuracy. I’ve shared this software with friends and professors at UT, and they’ve had nothing but positive reviews about how much time and effort this has saved them. I thought I’d share the software here too - it’s free to use and I’d love any feedback y’all could give me.
