Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Make Electrical Component Selection Suck Less
We're building Merlin to speed up electrical component selection, starting with ceramic capacitors. Overview video: https://youtu.be/FrGrivAKhnc The problem: We hated the tedious work of choosing components: copying specs into spreadsheets, taking screenshots from multiple datasheets, and cross-referencing parameters across manufacturers. What we built: - A comparison tool that displays all relevant electrical/mechanical specs along with the performance curves in a single view - An alternates tool that identifies equivalent parts based on a reference component We think…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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After years of making screwdrivers and teaching people to repair electronics, we just made our first electronic tool. It's been a journey for us to build while hewing to our repairable principles. We're really excited about it. It's a USB-C powered soldering iron and smart battery power hub. Super repairable, of course. Our goal is to make soldering so easy everyone can do it: https://www.ifixit.com/fixhub We didn’t want to make just another iron, so we spent years sweating the details and crafting something that met our exacting standards. This is a high-performance iron: it…
2024 · hackaday.com · its alternatives →
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Modo▲148I’ve built hardware projects for years, and the gap between “I want X” and “parts ordered, files ready to print” always took weeks. Modo compresses that. Describe what you want (e.g. “a portable CO2 monitor with a display and buzzer”) and it generates: - A bill of materials with real components (MPNs, not hallucinated parts) - A printable enclosure generated from actual part dimensions - Wiring diagrams, firmware boilerplate, and assembly instructions - Design validation (power budget, pin conflicts, mechanical fit) Everything streams in real time as each phase completes. The key idea is…
Jan 2026 · modo.is · its alternatives →
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Get Any Symbol & Footprint in 1 Business Day.
2016 · snapeda.com · its alternatives →
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Your wireframe should be easy to share with any developer on your team. Design fast with iPhone and iPad collaboration. Precursor is productive prototyping.
2015 · precursorapp.com · its alternatives →
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- 7Scratchboard▲146
Create, simulate, and collaborate on digital circuits
2025 · scratchboard.io · 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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Input simple project requirements and let an algorithm take care of finding components and pin connections
2014 · edasolver.com · its alternatives →
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Find your method of being incredibly fast in prototyping.
2017 · its alternatives →
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InstaPart▲99Build circuit boards faster with parts delivered in <24 hrs
2016 · snapeda.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’ve spent the last decade building hardware products like humanoid robots, 3D printers, and self-driving tractors. I needed a tool to navigate technical documents faster, so I created one with friends. This tool helps with component search, cross-referencing, comparison, and debugging. We’d love your feedback, whether you find it useful or not. Thank you! Try it here: www.convergelab.ai
2024 · convergelab.ai · its alternatives →
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Blank 2.0▲227The fastest UI kit & design system for your projects
2023 · useblank.design · its alternatives →
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Voltera▲80Electronics prototyping right from your desktop!
2015 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Microapp▲146Build ReactJS components in less than 60 sec using AI
2023 · microapp.io · its alternatives →
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Automatically build parts with computer vision.
2017 · snapeda.com · its alternatives →
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TypMo▲154Hello HN! I’ve been working on a small tool that helps you move from quick wireframe experiments to solid, production-ready prompts. As a designer, I’ve always felt that getting the structure right early saves a ton of pain later. TypMo leans into that idea by grounding everything in IA-style wireframes- fast to create, easy to iterate, and perfect for figuring out what you actually mean before throwing prompts at AI. I’m now pushing it a step further with a lightweight DSL. Still early, still rough around the edges, but with some AI help it’s starting to feel real. Would love to hear what…
Dec 2025 · typmo.com · its alternatives →
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A site for sharing electronics projects.
2018 · kitspace.org · its alternatives →
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If you ever needed to visualise the 3 things that you can’t have all at once, like GOOD, FAST, CHEAP, I made a little tool for you! You can use it whenever you are having a project deadline discussion at work or just for fun. Enjoy.
2023 · trizuliak.com · its alternatives →
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Hi! me and my friends together built an 8 bit CPU implemented in Logisim purely from scratch. The control unit of this system does not implement the generic microcode ROM or any kind of RAM. This was made purely from discrete logic gates and coded the system to run different programs. key features: Custom 16-instruction Harvard ISA, 8-bit fixed format, 4 general purpose registers Hardwired control unit built entirely from AND/OR gate logic matrix Dual-phase clocking to eliminate race conditions Bootstrap Control Unit that cold-boots via ROM-to-RAM transfer Early-exit conditional…
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · buyparts.io · its alternatives →
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GrabCAD▲99Helping mechanical engineers build great products faster
2014 · grabcad.com · its alternatives →
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TL;DR - My cofounder Collin and I built an AI version of Digi-Key to help PCB designers find and use parts, except with a way bigger catalog, modern refinement tools, and an AI that can actually read the damn datasheets for you. *The problem* Modern circuit board design is filled with absurdly tedious tasks, where one small mistake can brick a project and cost thousands. The worst (in our opinion) is reading datasheets, which eats up to 25% of the first part of any project: 1. First, you slog through catalogs to find viable parts, using search tools that are still stuck in the dark ages.…
2025 · zenode.ai · its alternatives →
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