Design
perfboarddesigner.com
Manages perfboard and stripboard electronics projects by listing parts, creating and editing boards, placing components, wiring pins, and exporting project files.
ENDPOINT 1
https://mcp.perfboarddesigner.com/mcp
MCP server metadata
- Name
- perfboard-designer
- Version
- 0.1.0
Perfboard Designer (https://perfboarddesigner.com) is a browser editor for perfboard and stripboard layouts. You design a board here as a project file and give the user a link that opens it in the editor. The goal is a board that's right, looks neat and is easy to solder. 1. list_parts with no query: every part. Then get_part with ids: every part you use, in one call. 2. new_project (cols, rows, type) returns a projectId: pass it to every other tool. 3. edit_project: place parts (add_part) and route wires (add_wire with from/to, or a path with corners; ends can be pins by name, "U1.7", "D1.K"), all ops or none. Its reply gives where pins landed, the board's problems and, once there are no errors, its nets. Give expectNets (your netlist, e.g. [["U1.8", "R1.1"], ...]) once and every missing or extra connection is an error from then on. render_board draws the board as text to show free space, or with format "png" as a picture to look at. 4. Fix every error; warnings are likely mistakes. 5. Make it neat and solderable: look at render_board format "png". Parts in tidy rows near what they connect to, connectors at edges; straight wires, few corners and crossings, none over a part. Rework it, then check again. 6. make_share_link: give the user the link (and with store: true, where offered, a short one too). show_board shows them the board in the chat, where the client shows MCP Apps. Rules: holes are [column, row] from the top-left hole, from 0, 2.54 mm apart. A hole holds one part's pin or lead at most (two parts in one hole is an error) plus any number of wire ends, and everything in it is joined: to connect two parts, run a wire between their pins. A wire joins only the holes at its ends and corners, never a hole it passes over; wires may cross (no short, but avoid it). On a stripboard each strip joins its holes up to a cut (add_cuts). The full guide, with more on all this and on changing a board the user shares (read_share_link): the resource perfboard://docs/guide.
Known tools 12
get_partEverything needed to place parts: for each, which project file list it goes in, its pins (offsets from pin 1 at rotation 0) and pin labels, polarity, value unit, holes its body covers, and an example entry.
Inferred read-onlynew_projectStarts a project kept here under a projectId: a blank board, or one of the example projects (perfboard://examples/.
Inferred read-onlyedit_projectChanges a project kept here, by a list of ops applied in order: add_part, update_part (move, turn, change value or ref), remove_parts, add_wire (from/to, or a `path` of holes made into one wire per leg), update_wire, remove_wires, set_board, add_cuts / remove_cuts (stripboard), set_pad.
Inferred read-onlyget_projectThe whole project file of a project kept here, as the editor would save it (version 3), one entry per line.
Inferred read-onlyvalidate_projectChecks a project file and lists every problem with where it is: entries the editor would leave out, unknown parts, pins off the board, two parts' pins or leads in one hole, overlapping parts, wires that connect nothing (a loose end, or no pins on their net), duplicate wires, a two-lead part with both leads on one net (shorted out), a wire passing over a pin or lead without ending there (so not joined to it), IC pins and two-lead parts' leads connected to nothing, supply rails shorted together, and on a stripboard, pins shorted by a strip or sitting in a cut hole.
Inferred read-onlyget_pin_positionsWhere every placed part's pins land, as [column, row] holes, with pin numbers and labels (e.
Inferred read-onlyrender_boardDraws the board as text, one cell per hole with column and row numbers: each part's pins by a key letter and pin number (a1, a2.
Inferred read-onlymake_share_linkTurns a project into a link that opens it in Perfboard Designer: the project travels inside the link, so it works without any server.
Inferred read-onlyread_share_linkReads the project out of a Perfboard Designer share link (any of its forms: z=, json= or src=, which is downloaded; a stored project's short link too), so you can look at or change a board the user shared.
Inferred read-onlyshow_boardShows the user a picture of the board right in the conversation, as the editor draws it, with a button that opens it in Perfboard Designer.
Inferred read-onlyCONNECT WITH APPROVAL
Client installation
Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.
Codex
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.perfboard-designer]
url = "https://mcp.perfboarddesigner.com/mcp"
enabled = trueClaude Code
.mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"perfboard-designer": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.perfboarddesigner.com/mcp"
}
}
}Claude Desktop
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector
Name: perfboard-designer
Remote MCP URL: https://mcp.perfboarddesigner.com/mcpAdd this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.
Cursor
.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"perfboard-designer": {
"url": "https://mcp.perfboarddesigner.com/mcp"
}
}
}Visual Studio Code
.vscode/mcp.json
Add to Visual Studio Code{
"servers": {
"perfboard-designer": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.perfboarddesigner.com/mcp"
}
}
}Generic MCP
Client-specific MCP configuration
{
"name": "perfboard-designer",
"transport": "streamable-http",
"url": "https://mcp.perfboarddesigner.com/mcp"
}MCP Inspector
Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.
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