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Wiring Claude to Lab Equipment for Circuit Verification

Apr 17th, 2026 · lucasgerads.com

Lucas Gerads connected Claude Code directly to a LeCroy oscilloscope and SPICE simulator, creating a closed loop where AI can simulate a circuit, measure physical hardware, and compare results. The setup handles data alignment grunt work and scales to real embedded projects, though reliability across many test cycles remains an open question.

Wiring Claude to Lab Equipment for Circuit Verification

Asking Claude to generate circuits from a text description works for simple stuff. Real designs? Not so much. Lucas Gerads tried a different approach: he wired Claude Code directly to his lab equipment.

Using MCP servers he built for a LeCroy oscilloscope and the spicelib simulator, Claude can now run a SPICE simulation, measure the actual physical circuit, and compare the two. That closed loop between simulation and real hardware is where this gets useful.