Create, simulate, and collaborate on electronic circuits in your browser. Test digital circuits with advanced simulation engine and AVR microcontroller support. Perfect for hardware engineers, makers, and students.
Hey Product Hunt community! 👋
I'm Collins Abitekaniza, the creator of Scratchboard.io. We built this platform to solve a pain point I experienced firsthand as an embedded systems developer in Africa – the high cost and limited access to hardware for testing and development.
Scratchboard.io lets you build and test embedded systems in a virtual environment, making hardware development accessible to everyone, everywhere. Whether you're a student learning the basics, a professional prototyping ideas, or a startup testing concepts, you can now do it all without investing in expensive hardware.
Some key features we're excited to share:
Real-time microcontroller simulation
Collaborative workspaces for team projects
Intuitive interface that grows with you
Risk-free environment for experimentation
For our Product Hunt launch, we're offering exclusive pricing to the first 100 users with code EARLY100.
I'll be here all day to answer questions and gather your feedback. Let me know what you think – I'm especially curious to hear about your hardware development challenges and how we could help solve them! 🚀
Woww it's impressive! I can hardly see a product for hardware parts! Congrats on your launching 🔥
Great to see something that helps cutdown the time spent testing and prototyping by breaking it down into these simulations 🤩
Could you add an option to import/export designs in common formats like Eagle or KiCAD?
During my engineering studies, I often felt the need for this sort of platform that provides students with a risk-free environment to explore, learn, and conduct experiments without the constraints of high-cost equipment and labs. Such a resource would have greatly enhanced hands-on learning and practical experience. I'm loving it
hey .. there is some issue regarding login with github . please checkout , i want to use it
Nice to see this tool when AI hardware is on trending! Makes hardware logic simulation way easier. Gonna save devs so much time on prototypes.
That's amazing! It's so good to find a project which facilitates handling hardware topics. When I was at university, the tools I knew were all really old-fashioned and tough to get a handle on. I'll surely look into it once I'm free for my upcoming IoT hobby endeavor.
Awesome! It's great to see a project that makes it easier to also tackle hardware topics, especially since the tools I know from my time at university were all quite old and hard to grasp. Will check it out once I have time for my next IoT hobby project!
About Scratchboard on Product Hunt
“Create, simulate, and collaborate on digital circuits”
Scratchboard launched on Product Hunt on January 6th, 2025 and earned 159 upvotes and 13 comments, placing #10 on the daily leaderboard. Create, simulate, and collaborate on electronic circuits in your browser. Test digital circuits with advanced simulation engine and AVR microcontroller support. Perfect for hardware engineers, makers, and students.
Scratchboard was featured in Internet of Things (225.5k followers), Developer Tools (511.1k followers) and Tech (621.6k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 235.6k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Scratchboard?
Scratchboard was hunted by Collins Abitekaniza. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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