VeroDesigner

A browser tool that turns a drawn schematic into a stripboard (vero) layout: place components, wire them with a click-drag tool, hit "Generate Vero," and it lays out the same circuit on pre-drilled stripboard — the copy claims a result close in size and track efficiency to a layout an experienced builder would draw by hand. Single self-contained HTML file, no external dependencies, runnable at verodesigner.vercel.app or downloaded and opened offline. By GitHub user blazethablunt, whose handle carries no other identifying information, so this page treats the project as the entity rather than paging a person behind it — the same call this spoke made for suutari20 and flopperziro.

What it does

Schematic editor: place components, set value/type/rotation, wire them with a click-drag tool.
Layout editor: move components, links and cuts on the generated board; resize the board.
Net labels: 9V/GND/Input/Output plus custom labels, each markable off-board or on-board.
Circuit Data panel: auto-detects nets, groups and color-codes them from the schematic.
Vero settings: max columns, update-vs-regenerate behaviour, auto-describe, standing resistors.
Project save/load, PNG + bill-of-materials export, and .kicad_sch import — a schematic drawn in KiCad can be brought in rather than redrawn in the tool's own editor.
Component library: resistors, capacitors, diodes, LEDs, potentiometers/trimmers, switches, a 5V regulator, vacuum tubes (12AX7/12AU7), op-amps (TL072, NE5532 and others), BJTs, JFETs, MOSFETs, and ICs including PT2399 (echo), NE555, the CD4000 series and the V2164 VCA.

At v1.4.0 (the latest tagged release, 2026-09-26): movable edge connections, scroll-wheel cycling through component models, pin numbers shown on parts, a live component count, new transistor/IC/trimpot types, and bug fixes.

What it is a source for

This spoke has three DIY hardware sources that reach custom PCB (the-open-book-ereader, suutari20) and one that reaches commodity breakout modules with no board at all (flopperziro) on the replication-floor axis. VeroDesigner sources a rung this spoke hadn't named yet, sitting between those two: point-to-point construction on pre-drilled stripboard, the classic hobbyist prototyping medium that needs no fabrication step and no bare breakout modules either — cut tracks and jumper wires on a board bought in a pack. What the tool adds is that the layout design itself, normally the tedious, error-prone part of building on stripboard by hand, is automated from a schematic. That is a different kind of saving from suutari20's footprint reuse: reuse cuts the cost of drawing a custom PCB, VeroDesigner cuts the cost of planning a stripboard build, and neither moves what has to be fabricated or bought.

Activity and provenance

Repository created 2026-07-25, 33 commits, 51 stars, 51 watchers, 1 fork, 0 open issues at ingest (checked directly against the GitHub API, 2026-09-27). No LICENSE file is present in the repository — recorded as a gap, not assumed to be either permissive or restrictive.

Tier

T1, per the standing rule (../QUALITY.md → tier by the claim, not the URL). The load-bearing claim is the artifact's own facts — what the tool does, how it is built (single HTML file, no dependencies), its feature list and its component library — all checkable directly against the running tool and the repository. The one claim this page does not treat as established is the comparison to hand-drawn layouts ("close to hand-designed layouts by experienced builders"): that is the maker's own assessment of how well the tool performs, with no measurement attached, so it is reported here as a claim rather than folded into the artifact-fact tier.

Cross-spoke context

The component library is skewed toward audio-DIY parts rather than general embedded parts: vacuum tubes (12AX7/12AU7), op-amps used in pedal and preamp circuits (TL072, NE5532), the PT2399 echo chip, NE555 timers, and the V2164 VCA are all staples of guitar-pedal and synth-DIY builds, which is ../music-tech-wiki's domain. The tool itself is general-purpose — it lays out any two-terminal and IC-shaped schematic on stripboard, not an audio-specific instrument — so the dominant substance (a schematic-to-stripboard layout generator, a build-prototyping tool) is this spoke's, and the runner-up reading is recorded here rather than duplicated as a second page in ../music-tech-wiki.

open-hardware · the-open-book-ereader · flopperziro · suutari20 · embedded-systems · synthesis