Reverse-Engineering a Switch Lite with 1,917 wires
Hey Hackers. This is a project I solo-developed that turns completed PCB assemblies into an easy to use boardview with some accompanying boardscans. There are lots of easier and better ways of doing this, but this is an experimentation to do it as cheaply as possible, with the highest quality and lowest chance of errors. The technical details are in the link. Most public boardviews are almost entirely the result of industrial espionage, other than a few encrypted subscription based software platforms that provide extensive access. The process output is released as donationware, as my main…
Reverse-Engineering a Switch Lite with 1,917 wires launched on February 25, 2024 with 513 votes, #45 of 3,962 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
This project converts Nintendo Switch Lite circuit board assemblies into detailed boardviews and scans using a low-cost, high-accuracy experimental process. Aimed at hardware hackers and reverse engineers, it provides downloadable files showing the board layout and component placement. The creator released the output as donationware, prioritizing free access to hardware documentation over commercial models.
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Reverse-Engineering a Switch Lite Boardview at 6,000 Pixels Per Inch
This is the output data for a process I solo-developed for extracting the netlist from an assembled Printed Circuit Board, in this case, a Nintendo Switch Lite logic board. Electrical components are soldered to exposed mounting pads on the PCB, and layers of copper form connections between these pads creating electrical circuits. The full list of these interconnects is called the netlist, and when combined with the part and pad geometries, constitute a boardview. Couple that boardview with reference images of both sides of the PCB, and you have the output data. There are 3 novel-ish innovations working together to make this happen. They are: You may have noticed the panoramas are actually…from usoldering.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey Hackers. This is a project I solo-developed that turns completed PCB assemblies into an easy to use boardview with some accompanying boardscans. There are lots of easier and better ways of doing this, but this is an experimentation to do it as cheaply as possible, with the highest quality and lowest chance of…
Pricing, as stated on its site
Free — This is a free resource sharing reverse-engineering data and boardview files for a Nintendo Switch Lite. No pricing or paid tiers are mentioned; downloads are available via torrent or direct download.
checked September 2026 · prices change
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