AutoProber automates PCB probing with AI agents
AutoProber is an open-source hardware automation stack that converts consumer-grade CNC routers into AI-driven "flying probe" systems for automated PCB analysis. It provides the "eyes and hands" necessary for AI agents to perform physical hardware security research by mapping targets with computer vision and executing precise electrical measurements. By bridging the gap between digital agents and physical silicon, it moves hardware reverse engineering from a manual, one-off process to a scalable, programmatic workflow.
AutoProber is a breakthrough for agentic hardware hacking, demonstrating how low-cost consumer hardware can be "upcycled" into high-end research tools through clever software and AI integration.
- –Transforms $200 3018 CNC machines into industrial-grade flying probe testers via computer vision and Python
- –Explicitly designed for AI agent ingestion, allowing LLMs to autonomously map, identify, and electrically probe unknown circuit boards
- –Sophisticated safety model uses oscilloscope feedback as an independent endstop, preventing destructive probe crashes
- –Human-in-the-loop dashboard ensures high-precision probing targets are verified before physical contact
- –Lowers the barrier to entry for advanced hardware security research by democratizing expensive industrial probing technology
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45d ago
2026-04-17
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45d ago
2026-04-16
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scaredpelican