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Caleb All-board run on public boards: pictures and data, part 1 of 5 53dfdb9 9h ago

Results on public wiki boards

22 boards from public wiki pages were stripped of their tracks and vias and routed again with adom-aiflow-routing, then judged by KiCad's DRC with zones refilled, under each board's own rule values with clearance and open connections forced on. A board is clean when every connection is made, KiCad reports 0 open, and KiCad finds no copper error that the original does not also have.

First run: 9 of 22 clean. Current revision: 19 of 22 clean.

Results table

Before and after

Each picture shows the original, the first run and the current run, with the connections KiCad reports open ringed in red.

Board What changed in the router Picture
amfm-receiver-molecule pour pieces are stitched to their net; a last-mile repair searches the final joins deeper before-after/amfm-receiver-molecule.png
carrier-fc-rp2350a-mini a USB pair that could not be coupled was frozen as two stacked tracks, a wall on both layers; it is now movable and may not stack before-after/carrier-fc-rp2350a-mini.png
combiner-molecule no project file: the router now works to KiCad's own defaults before-after/combiner-molecule.png
drone-motor-carrier-assembly no project file: the router now works to KiCad's own defaults before-after/drone-motor-carrier-assembly.png
drone-motor-carrier a coupled pair's two tracks are now measured against each other at the pad entries before-after/drone-motor-carrier.png
esc-g431 vias without a track keep their net, a do-not-populate part is wired, thermal-relief cost. Still open: two layers, many small pours before-after/esc-g431.png
rf-workcell-module no project file: the router now works to KiCad's own defaults before-after/rf-workcell-module.png
rp2350a-ads1220 supply-pin-to-capacitor stubs are laid first; vias and tracks keep KiCad's polygon tolerance from mask openings before-after/rp2350a-ads1220.png
tmf8829-molecule no project file: the router now works to KiCad's own defaults (0.2 mm track and clearance, 0.5 mm edge) before-after/tmf8829-molecule.png

carrier-fc-rp2350a-mini before and after

A board that is not good yet:

esc-g431 before and after

Every board beside its original

boards/ holds a picture of each board: the original on the left, the routed board on the right.

Board Parts Connections made Open in KiCad Picture
coax-molecule-32x32 8 1 of 1 0 boards/coax-molecule-32x32.png
coax-antennuator-molecule-32x32 9 2 of 2 0 boards/coax-antennuator-molecule-32x32.png
coax-molecule-2ch-64x64 9 2 of 2 0 boards/coax-molecule-2ch-64x64.png
rf-workcell-module 9 14 of 14 0 boards/rf-workcell-module.png
rf-scaffold-module 11 2 of 2 0 boards/rf-scaffold-module.png
teazzers-taprite-solonoid-638-0031-v2 12 5 of 5 0 boards/teazzers-taprite-solonoid-638-0031-v2.png
i2s-carrier 14 1 of 1 0 boards/i2s-carrier.png
rf-mech-molecule-32x32 20 0 of 0 0 boards/rf-mech-molecule-32x32.png
tmf8829-molecule 20 37 of 37 0 boards/tmf8829-molecule.png
tmf8829-adapter-molecule 21 11 of 11 0 boards/tmf8829-adapter-molecule.png
rp1-breakout-molecule-extended 25 5 of 5 0 boards/rp1-breakout-molecule-extended.png
combiner-molecule 26 5 of 5 0 boards/combiner-molecule.png
ranger-micro-breakout-molecule-extended 27 6 of 6 0 boards/ranger-micro-breakout-molecule-extended.png
teazzers-taprite-solonoid-638-0031-multicarrier 33 20 of 20 0 boards/teazzers-taprite-solonoid-638-0031-multicarrier.png
rf-mech-molecule-32x64 36 0 of 0 0 boards/rf-mech-molecule-32x64.png
drone-motor-carrier 41 32 of 32 0 boards/drone-motor-carrier.png
drone-motor-carrier-assembly 41 32 of 32 0 boards/drone-motor-carrier-assembly.png
rf-mech-molecule-64x64 68 0 of 0 0 boards/rf-mech-molecule-64x64.png
carrier-fc-rp2350a-mini 80 74 of 74 0 boards/carrier-fc-rp2350a-mini.png
rp2350a-ads1220 100 172 of 176 5 boards/rp2350a-ads1220.png
esc-g431 149 207 of 239 24 boards/esc-g431.png
amfm-receiver-molecule 403 539 of 543 4 boards/amfm-receiver-molecule.png

Open questions with their pictures

Question Picture
What sizes a supply rail when the board has no current spec questions/rail-width.png
RF lines, via fences and ground stitching, which the board file does not ask for questions/rf-copper.png
A pair that cannot stay coupled under its class clearance questions/pair-coupling.png

Data

File What it holds
table.json the table above as data
ledger.jsonl two records per board, first run and current: connections made, the router's own check, KiCad's result on the original and on the routed board, the router's notes
lessons.jsonl one record per lesson: what was found, what was changed in the router, how it was verified. Boards that are not public are described, not named

Board files are not stored here; the pictures are renders of boards whose wiki pages are public.