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24 alternatives to InstaPart – Build circuit boards faster with instant parts
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InstaPart provides schematic symbols, PCB footprints, and 3D models for electronic components, delivering them within one business day for $29 each or free if already available. The service is designed for circuit… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. InstaPart – Build circuit boards faster with instant parts launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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InstaPart▲99Build circuit boards faster with parts delivered in <24 hrs
2016 · snapeda.com · its alternatives →
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Download free symbols, PCB footprints, and 3D models for thousands of TE Connectivity components. The largest source of verified PCB libraries.
2018 · snapeda.com · its alternatives →
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Automatically build parts with computer vision.
2017 · snapeda.com · its alternatives →
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Bizcardz.ai is a website where you design business cards which are converted to KiCad PCB schematics which can be manufactured (using metals) by companies such as Elecrow and PCBWay The site is free. Elecrow charges about $1 per pcb in quantities of 50 and $0.80 in quantities of 100. I have hacked away at this on and off for about two years so just happy to get it published
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · inventhub.io · its alternatives →
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canitbebuilt▲143Your hardware idea, inspected. Verdict, BOM, 3D model.
Jul 2026 · canitbebuilt.ai · its alternatives →
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Australia's leading electronics retailer for makers and educators. Shop maker kits, sensors, single-board computers, and STEM education products. Fast shipping Australia-wide.
2019 · littlebird.com.au · its alternatives →
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Hey Hackers. This is a project I solo-developed that turns completed PCB assemblies into an easy to use boardview with some accompanying boardscans. There are lots of easier and better ways of doing this, but this is an experimentation to do it as cheaply as possible, with the highest quality and lowest chance of errors. The technical details are in the link. Most public boardviews are almost entirely the result of industrial espionage, other than a few encrypted subscription based software platforms that provide extensive access. The process output is released as donationware, as my main…
2024 · usoldering.com · its alternatives →
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PewCB▲67Vibe-routing is coming. Desktop PCB Factory is here.
Sep 2026 · pewcb.com · its alternatives →
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Library of 537 blocks for desktop and mobile prototyping
2019 · source.forpeople.studio · its alternatives →
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Hi folks, we just released the ability to export our library of schematic symbols and PCB footprints to Mentor PADS. This is a beta release so it would be great to get your feedback. To try it, search for a part on SnapEDA (http://www.snapeda.com), click download and then select "PADS" as the format. You can try it out on this part here directly if you prefer: http://www.snapeda.com/parts/PIC32MX250F128B-I/SS/Microchip/view-part/
2015 · its alternatives →
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FreeCAD 1.1▲218Extremely powerful, completely free 3D CAD modeling
Mar 2026 · wiki.freecad.org · its alternatives →
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Build Fab-ready Custom PCBs with one prompt
Aug 2026 · trycherryblossom.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I've been working on a new way to build electronics/PCBs with Typescript/React, I'd love to know what you think!! I've wanted to program circuits for a long time- I started experimenting with the concept of creating circuits in React almost 8 years ago and have spent many weekends since to prove the concept. Over the past 2 months, I've decided to start working on tscircuit full-time.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This is a little toy project of mine that lets you simulate digital logic graphs. It was inspired by Minecraft's Redstone and the Piet esolang. It's got some serious drawbacks-- you write circuits as PNGs and simulate them with a Python interface. It's slow to run and slow to experiment with. And it is certainly difficult to use for people with any kind of color blindness. But despite that, I hope this can still be a fun toy!
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I'm Zach from Adam (https://adam.new/). We’re building an AI co-pilot for mechanical CAD software. As part of our broader research, we built a browser-based Text-to-CAD app (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182206) and are now open sourcing it. This is a React SPA with a Supabase backend. What it does: * Generates parametric 3D models from natural language descriptions, with support for both text prompts and image references * Outputs OpenSCAD code with automatically extracted parameters that surface as interactive sliders for instant dimension…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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EasyCircuit▲178Hardware prototyping, as simple as vibe-coding
Jul 2026 · easycircuit.app · its alternatives →
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3D printing is such a fascinating field of technology, so a couple months ago, I decided to take a deep dive and learn how they actually work! This took me to one of my very first PCB projects, a small, cheap, 3D printer motherboard. While it's not the most cutting edge board, I learned a lot and I fully documented my process designing it (https://github.com/KaiPereira/Cheetah-MX4-Mini/blob/master/J...), so other people can learn from my mistakes! It runs off of an STM32H743 MCU, has 4 TMC stepsticks with UART/SPI configurations,…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Build circuit boards faster with simple computer vision
2017 · snapeda.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, everyone. I created a note-taking website for electronics and circuits where you can draw circuit diagrams and write text notes at the same time. I am a Digital IC designer, and I self-study different types of analog and digital circuits a lot. However, I found a problem. Circuits have many different architectures and are hard to memorize due to numerous experiential tips. I want to document what I learn in my note app, but I found there is no method for me to easily draw circuit and block diagrams alongside text notes. This issue has bothered me for a long time, from my master's school…
2024 · viscircuit.com · its alternatives →
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KiCad, a PCB EDA suite is now working in a browser, you can try it at the link, there's a demo project or you can bring your own. Firefox is best, Chrome is good, Safari is "working". We’re Emergence Engineering, a dev shop from Hungary, mostly working with rich text editors, CRDTs. PCBJam started as my (Viktor, CTO, ex-electrical engineer) hobby project but as time went on I put more and more energy into it, and a product started shaping up in my head, in the last few months we’ve started to focus on this project a bit more, and this is the first MVP~ish result. This project is a ton of…
Jul 2026 · demo.pcbjam.com · its alternatives →
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