boards

Board templates (by brand)

Blank starting boards for real, off-the-shelf perfboards — pick the one that matches the physical board in your hand, copy it, and fill in components, nets, and route. Each template just fixes the hole grid (cols × rows) and pitch so your layout can't exceed the real board.

boards/
  <brand>/
    <size>.json     # e.g. elegoo/5x7.json

Why brands?

Perfboards are not all the same hole count, even at the same nominal size — the usable grid depends on each maker's border margin. So templates live under a folder per brand, and contributors can add their own without disturbing others.

Available

Brand	Size	Grid (cols × rows)	Holes
Elegoo	2×8 cm	28 × 6	168
Elegoo	3×7 cm	24 × 10	240
Elegoo	4×6 cm	20 × 14	280
Elegoo	5×7 cm	24 × 18	432
Elegoo	7×9 cm	31 × 26	806

cols is always the longer edge (landscape). All holes are on a uniform 2.54 mm (0.1") grid. The Elegoo 2×8 grid (6×28) was counted on a physical board; the rest share the same pitch and match the kit's published hole totals.

Contributing a brand / size

1. Create boards/<brand>/<size>.json from an existing template.
2. Count the holes on a real board (or cite the maker's spec) — set cols (long edge) and rows (short edge). Don't compute from millimetres alone; border margins make the count brand-specific.
3. Keep pitch at 26 (this is render pixels, not millimetres — every board is physically 2.54 mm pitch).
4. Add a row to the table above.
5. boardwright build boards/<brand>/<size>.json should render a clean empty grid of the right size.

Tip: board_mm records the physical size for reference; brand / model are free-form metadata. boardwright ignores unknown top-level keys, so add what's useful.