Mike Ayles

Head of Product Development at addvantage, Tribune Group. Building dual-fuel diesel-LPG conversion systems for commercial fleets. Approaching 30 million miles deployed.

Building a FPGA stereo depth camera targeting ISO 13849 PLd Cat 3 for collaborative robotics. Custom SGM in Verilog on AMD K26.

Building Phaestus on the side. A compiler for physical products. Block library, parametric enclosures, manufacturing files. First fabricated board came back in February 2026. Currently growing the block library and chasing a phone-in-five-minutes demo.

Background is sport science. Got into embedded by accident in 2014. Self-taught from there.

Occasional things that escaped onto the internet:

KiDoom, ScopeDoom, OpenSCAD-DOOM. Hit Hacker News a few times, plus media coverage.
search-bench. RAG benchmark for coding agents.
TOKN. Schematic compression format, 92% token reduction.
CircuitSnips 4,300 KiCad subcircuits, indexed and searchable.

mikeayles.com for longer writing. LinkedIn. mike@mikeayles.com.

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CircuitSnips.com - open source hardware repository

TypeScript 30
Doom. In Kicad

Python 96 5
DOOM rendered on a hardware oscilloscope via sound card - Left channel = X, Right channel = Y

Python 17
Realtime updating of a simple component and netlist for LLM automation of documentation

Python 57 3
MCP documentation server for embedded developers. Ingests PDF reference manuals (1000+ pages), extracts register definitions, and provides fast semantic search with minimal token usage.

Python 14 2
Token-Oriented KiCad Notation (TOKN) – Compact, human-readable, KiCad Netlists for LLM prompts. Spec, benchmarks, Python SDK.

Python 8