Perfbored — a simple perfboard editor

A free web app for laying out hand-wired perfboard. No account, no install, nothing uploaded.

Perfbored is for planning a board before you solder it. Parts and wires snap to the 2.54 mm hole grid, on both the component side and the wiring side, and every hole is named the way you would count it off the board — C5R3. It is aimed at hobbyists building one-off circuits on plain perfboard, protoboard or stripboard, rather than at anyone laying out a PCB.

What the editor does

• A part library covering microcontroller boards, OLED displays, motor drivers, connectors, switches, and the usual resistors, capacitors, diodes and LEDs.
• Wiring on both sides of the board, with the far side ghosted so you can see through it.
• Connection checks that separate faults, such as two nets shorted in one hole, from notes worth a second look.
• A plain-text report of the finished layout, hole by hole, to follow at the bench.
• Boards are kept in your browser and export to JSON; nothing is uploaded anywhere.

Open source

Perfbored is a small personal project, MIT licensed and small enough to read in an afternoon: github.com/SirPryderi/perfbored. Issues and pull requests are welcome — adding a part to the library is one file, so if the thing in your parts bin is missing, it is a short contribution.

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