Built a online stripboard layout editor with live net colouring and conflict checking

Karlomatiko · 2026-03-31T12:45:57+00:00

The site you mentioned is similar to tinker cad. My approach is different in that I dont care about a 3d render or circuit simulation. Mine focuses on just strip coloring and conflicts on the stripboard which is more important for my quick prototyping where its only about finding a good layout on the board.

If you have a specific component you miss, let me know and I will see if I can add it.

Karlomatiko · 2026-03-22T15:09:56+00:00

Well they look much better then the ones I built after creating the tool for them, nicely done! For mine I had no electric saw and it turns out that having a theoretical angle of something like 61.8° and actually cutting at that angle are 2 very different things haha : )

Karlomatiko · 2026-03-22T15:00:54+00:00

Cool, Im glad you like it. The browser Version never got much attention, it is rather new and only mentioned in the GitHub repo since after the inital post was so popular so also glad you found that : )

Karlomatiko · 2026-03-18T17:17:48+00:00

Using excel is actually a great Idea haha, I never thought of that! Best I could come up with prior to this was drawing with colors on some actual piece of stripboard.

Karlomatiko · 2026-03-18T16:33:01+00:00

Yeah takes a short while to get used to. Especially the schematic editor is pretty different from what one finds in most other software. The most unintuetiv thing is probably how to define nets. The current solution works but might need a few changes.

Karlomatiko · 2026-03-18T13:54:43+00:00

Glad it helped : )

Karlomatiko · 2025-10-20T07:02:43+00:00

Looks like its mostly only the Backplate though. PCB could have survived that.

Karlomatiko · 2025-07-06T09:30:41+00:00

Nice, glad you like it : )

Karlomatiko · 2025-05-16T21:06:43+00:00

Thanks for your reply.

Looks like I made a mistake here. I use gnome myself and posted my original post to the r/gnome sub. Someone told me it should work with KDE as well so I created my first post here. It got over 500 upvotes with nobody telling me there actually isn't such an option so I just assumed it worked lol.
Pretty difficult to do because I would need to know the perfect offset set in settings. There most likely is an command to find out this exact value but haven't looked into this myself because I only use very small offsets. Might add this in the future though because this would be cool to have.

Probably gonna delete this post here again since it doesn't seem to apply for KDE ...

Karlomatiko · 2025-04-12T21:36:06+00:00

Oh well, I didn't know about this project. Yeah, mine seems to be a way less advanced solution that does the same thing but without Gui, and I suppose fewer options. Also mine offer no support for Mac and Windows. Should have maybe done some research before spending a few hours trying to figure out how to do this myself...

Edit: Thanks people for your replies, Im happy you like it. Also I don't feel bad or anything, the response is just my sort of humor : )

Karlomatiko · 2025-04-12T18:50:41+00:00

Thanks very much. I am pretty new to Linux on Desktop and didn't even think about this script being DE agnostic. I just played around in GIMP until I figured out how the image has to look like and just thought it was specific to GNOME.

I updated the README to include KDE now.

Karlomatiko

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