pcb-mind
PCB defect inspection app combining vision detection with golden-board comparison and an LLM manufacturing copilot.
What it does and how it connects
PCBMind AI is an AI-powered PCB defect inspection app: upload a board photo and get annotated defects, severity, and a QA report in seconds. It pairs a YOLOv8 detector trained on public PCB-defect datasets with a golden-board comparison, statistical process control, and an LLM copilot that answers questions about the user's real QA data. A live demo runs at pcbmind-ai.vercel.app.
The detector covers 6 defect classes: missing hole, mouse bite, open circuit, short, spur, and spurious copper. A registered known-good board per template is aligned to each capture with ORB feature matching and RANSAC so baseline artifacts are suppressed, and Gerber files can be uploaded and rendered client-side into a golden reference image. Every defect is graded critical, major, or minor, and lazily generated heatmaps show where defects cluster on a board. The stack is Next.js 15, FastAPI, and Supabase.
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