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Software we build and run ourselves

Client work proves we can deliver against someone else's brief. Running our own products proves we can pick a problem, ship against it, and still be operating it a year later.

The short answer

Alongside client engagements, Smeron builds and operates its own software products. The first is Banana Board, an AI hardware design platform that turns a plain-English description of a gadget into validated firmware, a wiring diagram, a live in-browser simulation and a fab-ready PCB, with fourteen automated checks against the target board's real pins before anything is built. Owning and running products is what separates a studio that ships from one that hands over and leaves.

Banana Board

Live

AI circuits that actually work

Describe a gadget in one sentence. Get firmware, wiring, a live simulation and a fab-ready PCB, with every wire checked against your board's real pins.

Open bananaboard.appHow it works

Why it is on this site

  • A hard AI problem shipped, not demoed. Generating text that sounds like a circuit is easy; generating one that compiles, respects a real board's pins and survives a power budget is not — and the difference is exactly the difference between an AI prototype and an AI product.
  • Validation as a first-class feature. Fourteen automated checks exist because a wrong answer here costs a burnt board, which is the same discipline any AI system needs where a wrong answer costs money.
  • Operated, not handed over. It is live, supported and still being developed — which is the part of building software that a studio's client work never has to prove.

What it does

  • Describe it in a sentence

    Plain English in, a complete design out — firmware, wiring and the parts list, rather than a code snippet that assumes pins that do not exist.

  • Fourteen checks before you build

    Board pin rules, electrical rules, a real compile through arduino-cli, power budgeting and copper matched against the netlist. Errors get caught before the soldering iron, not after.

  • Simulate in the browser

    The circuit runs before it exists. No breadboard, no ordering parts to find out the design was wrong.

  • Flash over USB

    Straight to a connected Arduino or compatible board from the browser, with no toolchain to install first.

  • AI PCB designer

    Automatic component placement and routing, producing Gerber files a fab house accepts.

  • Eleven supported boards

    Arduino Uno R3, Mega 2560, Nano, Leonardo and Nano RP2040 Connect; Raspberry Pi Pico and Pico W; ESP32 DevKit V1, C3 and S3; NodeMCU ESP8266.

What it runs on

  • LLM orchestration
  • arduino-cli
  • In-browser circuit simulation
  • Browser-to-device USB flashing
  • Automated PCB routing
  • Gerber generation

Want something like this built for you?

If you can think it, we can build it. Tell us the idea and we come back with one number and one date.

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