Introducing Hydrogen: your AI workbench for electronics

September 29, 2026. Fort Worth, Texas.

Hydrogen is out. Our AI-powered workbench for electronics is available today for Windows 11 and Apple Silicon, and it does what we have been promising: bring the AI you already use, describe the board you need, and watch complete part libraries, schematics, and 2D and 3D layouts land in the EDA tools your team already trusts.

Hydrogen accelerates the electronics workflow end to end. It sources components across the major distributors, generates production-ready libraries (symbol, footprint, and 3D model), and builds schematics and boards natively in Altium, KiCad, and Fusion 360. Every part it creates is published automatically to the Adom Wiki.

Bring your own AI

Hydrogen is AI-agnostic by design. Claude, Codex, Antigravity, and Kimi are first-class citizens: each runs inside Hydrogen both as its official VS Code extension and as its terminal UI, side by side with the full electronics toolchain. Grok makes five: our Grok bridge talks directly to the Grok app on your computer, so Hydrogen drives it the same way it drives the others. And if you want to go further still, install your own local models inside Hydrogen’s container and put a TUI or a VS Code extension in front of them.

The state of AI

We build the tools and the design judgment comes from the model itself, and the models are improving fast: a month ago Claude Fable placed parts and routed traces well for the first time, two weeks later Codex Astra arrived and did an amazing job across all of those tasks, and the recent Opus 5.5 release is producing very impressive schematics and 2D board layouts, placing components, routing its own traces, even positioning its own silkscreens. We are excited by where the models are today, and more excited about what the coming weeks, months, and years will bring. That is exactly why Hydrogen is AI-agnostic: whatever model turns out to be best at designing electronics next, Hydrogen is ready for it the day it ships, and you already have every tool it needs around it. The frontier labs are pouring billions into these models. Our job is not to compete with them; it is to make sure the best models in the world have the best electronics tools.

Bridges into the tools you already use

The KiCad Bridge, Altium Bridge, and Fusion Bridge are Rust binaries that let Hydrogen talk directly to those GUI applications. They automate as much of each app as possible while it stays in the background, so the AI does its work without taking over your screen; when a job truly needs the foreground, full mouse and keyboard skills take over. The bridges can also screen-record the apps they drive, which makes demo videos, and wiki write-ups of how your project came together, nearly free. We believe they are some of the best automation tools available for these electronics applications today.

One search across the distributors

Adom Parts Search, which you can see in the video, aggregates Mouser, DigiKey, and JLCPCB into a single search. Direct API integrations with Mouser and DigiKey hand the AI structured results, stock, price breaks, and exact part numbers in seconds, which beats asking your AI to automate a browser every time it needs a resistor.

The Adom Wiki: where it all comes together

Everything Hydrogen produces lands on the Adom Wiki, an AI-first wiki with a real git repo under the hood of every page. The community contributes electronics prototyping skills that everyone benefits from, and applications that help us all build better and faster. Projects get published there so teams can collaborate on them in the open. And the component database grows by the day: every part gets a full wiki repo of its own, symbol, footprint, and 3D model plus component skills and content, so grabbing a part no longer means clicking “I am not a robot” on umpteen websites. The wiki is finally a place the entire electronics industry can rally around for the content we all need to prototype our electronics.

Built in the open

All of our EDA bridges are open source as of today. If you want a feature, file an issue, post a request, or send a pull request: we want the community to make the connections into KiCad, Fusion 360, and Altium the best in the industry, because the whole industry benefits when they are. The wiki will keep growing more open-source electronics tooling over time too: SPICE simulators, schematic designers, board designers, 3D tools, and whatever else the community decides is worth building together.

Get Hydrogen

Download Hydrogen today and put your first prompt in. And if building the tools sounds even better than using them, we are hiring in Fort Worth.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. 2607577.

Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.