Anteportal Labs is a student-founded hardware and software team building Sencillo, a desktop PCB fabrication center. The goal is to take a design from Gerber to a soldered-ready, double-sided board on your own desk, without the design files ever leaving the machine.
Why the name: from Spanish ante- (before) and portal (gateway). It refers to the scribes' arcade in García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera, where people who could not write had letters written for them. We are building the same kind of gateway: from intent to a physical board, for people who do not know EDA.
Sencillo combines dry mechanical isolation milling with in-machine copper-rivet through-holes, so a small double-sided board can be made the same day instead of waiting on an external prototyping service.
- Milling. Design target of 8/8 mil (0.2 mm) trace width and spacing on FR-1, using a fully dry process.
- Through-holes. 0.8 mm tinned hollow copper rivets, pressed in the machine, for real double-sided conductivity.
- Local by default. The default SKU works fully offline. No account, no cloud dependency, no locked consumables, no DRM.
- Constrained generation. A natural-language request becomes a schema-constrained proposal, which is checked by five deterministic verification gates outside the model. The model proposes; it does not design.
- Boundary. Sencillo does not replace EDA. It fills the manufacturing and verification gap downstream of existing design tools.
Target end-to-end time: ≤ 30 minutes from Gerber to a soldered-ready 50 × 50 mm double-sided board, including manual tool changes and excluding any front-end generation time.
Pre-prototype, as of October 2026. Architecture and component selection are complete; the first prototype has not started. All performance figures above are design targets, not measured product specifications. Anteportal Labs is currently a student project team, not a registered company. Customer discovery is at an early stage.
This is the early public home of the project. Technical documents, code, and design notes will be published here as they clear internal review. The CAM toolchain, verification-gate rule sets, and generation schema are not public yet.
We are looking for design partners who feel the problem firsthand:
- hardware teams that iterate on boards several times a month;
- labs and engineering groups whose design files cannot leave their premises.
If that is you, or you want to follow the build, write to Robusr@outlook.com.
Anteportal Labs（门洞工坊）是一个学生创立的硬件与软件团队，正在开发 Sencillo 桌面 PCB 加工中心。目标是把 Gerber 到可焊双面板的全过程放回自己的桌面，设计文件全程不出本机。
名字的来源： 西班牙语 ante-（在前）与 portal（门廊），取自加西亚·马尔克斯《霍乱时期的爱情》中的“代笔人门廊”。代笔人让不识字的人获得书写权，我们希望让不会 EDA 的人获得造物权。
Sencillo 把全干法机械隔离铣削与机内铜铆钉过孔整合到一台桌面设备中，让一块小型双面板在当天完成，而不必等待外部打样。
- 铣削：目标在 FR-1 上稳定实现 8/8 mil（0.2 mm）线宽线距，全干法工艺。
- 过孔：0.8 mm 镀锡空心铜铆钉，机内压铆，实现真正的双面导通。
- 本地优先：默认 SKU 全程离线可用。无账号、无云端依赖、无耗材锁定、无 DRM。
- 受约束的生成：自然语言需求先生成受 schema 约束的提案，再由模型之外的五道确定性验证门校验。模型只产出提案，不产出设计。
- 边界：Sencillo 不替代 EDA，只补齐既有设计工具下游缺失的制造与验证环节。
目标端到端时间：从 Gerber 到一块可焊的 50 × 50 mm 双面板 ≤ 30 分钟，含人工换刀，不含前端生成时间。
截至 2026 年 10 月，处于原型前阶段。 方案论证与选型已完成，首台原型尚未启动。以上性能均为设计目标，不是实测产品指标。Anteportal Labs 目前是学生项目团队，尚未注册公司主体。客户发现尚处于起步阶段。
这里是项目的早期公开主页。技术文档、代码与设计笔记会在通过内部审查后陆续发布。CAM 工具链、验证门规则集与生成 schema 暂不公开。
我们在寻找真正感受到这个问题的设计伙伴：
- 每月多次迭代 PCB 的硬件团队；
- 设计文件不能出域的实验室与研发组。
如果这符合你的情况，或希望关注项目进展，欢迎联系 Robusr@outlook.com。
