# DingoOz/TraceMaker

> An autorouter and component placer for KiCad boards: draws tracks and vias into a .kicad_pcb file and validates results with KiCad's own DRC. Runs on Linux, C++20, optionally GPU-accelerated via CUDA.

- Magnitude: 3.9 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 62 total · +4 stars measured 2026-10-07, 01:43–03:48 UTC, ≈ 35 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Hardware, IoT & robotics · Language: C++ · License: GPL-3.0 · Created: 2026-10-05 · Last push: 2026-10-06
- GitHub: https://github.com/DingoOz/TraceMaker · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/DingoOz/TraceMaker

## Useful for

- Route unrouted connections on a KiCad 9/10 board with tracemaker route
- Check the routing result with kicad-cli pcb drc and compare against the original file
- Improve component placement before routing via tracemaker-place --mode routable

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-07 (UTC), 01:43–03:48: 58 → 62 stars (+4). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +35 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 2 days old and already has 62 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #184.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 6
- Issues and pull requests: 4
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 32 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1
- Latest release: v0.8.0 (2026-10-06)

## Stars per day, last 4 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-10-07: 0, 22, 40, 4

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #184

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   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/parisxmas/fastroute.md

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-07 03:58 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.