Most failed autorouting jobs aren't the autorouter's fault, they're the layout's fault. Meet Layout Engine: the deterministic algorithm now powering Tovan's agent, cutting board layout from a slow trial-and-error loop down to seconds or minutes, and setting every board up for a clean route on the first pass.
Things were breaking, so we finally built the upgrades we had been putting off. New work modes, project linking, and a fix for context rot.
Tovan has come a long way in the past six months. Here is what we have been building, and why our families finally have something to tell their friends.
Tovan exists to take some of that burden off your shoulders, so more ideas can see the light of day, faster. Inventors can iterate quicker, and more things actually get made. The point of this post is to show you how easy it is to get an idea out of your head and into your hands in under an hour.
There are plenty of bike computers I could have bought and nothing is wrong with them. I built it because I wanted to see if the idea in my head could turn into a real thing. So I built it. Or more accurately, I described it to Tovan.