[HN Gopher] OrthoRoute - GPU-accelerated autorouting for KiCad
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OrthoRoute - GPU-accelerated autorouting for KiCad
Author : wanderingjew
Score : 74 points
Date : 2025-11-18 18:54 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (bbenchoff.github.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (bbenchoff.github.io)
| NoiseBert69 wrote:
| _Being that engineer in a PCB Fab in China who has to punch all
| the vias by hand_
|
| _heart attack_
| varispeed wrote:
| Are these pushed by hand? I'd believe if you said it happens in
| the UK. Fabs are still stuck in the 90s.
| sitzkrieg wrote:
| bias (even blind) are certainly automated these days. only
| time i've seen people manually via in the last several years
| is using a pcb mill, and little copper rivets you could slam
| thru a fr2 board for quick in house top/bottom prototypes
| NoiseBert69 wrote:
| Joking.
|
| There are videos from JLCPCB (one of the biggest). That stuff
| is 90% automated.
| morellt wrote:
| I would love to know the application of this ludicrous PCB, and
| I'd be even more interested to see the quote price
| NoiseBert69 wrote:
| A4-sized, 32 layers.. I'd guess something around 1500EUR at
| JLC.
| abraae wrote:
| It would be interesting to know if the finished board would
| work at all, given there must be some non-zero failure rate for
| each via.
| RicoElectrico wrote:
| Me too. I can't imagine a backplane where the connections would
| be so irregular as to require bringing out such big guns.
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