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Melt your circuit boards

mitxela2 HN recommenders · 2022–2025
471K views · demo · evergreen · Uploaded 2022-04-14

mitxela shows his KiCad plugin that rounds PCB tracks to give circuit boards organic, melted-looking layouts instead of rigid geometric ones.

Recommended as a great creative PCB-design video and linked in threads on KiCad and artistic boards.

Electronics & circuit designCreative coding & generative art

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3 comments from Hacker News

@zxcvgm2022 · in “Melting KiCad”

The author has also made a video about it recently: [VIDEO] It reminds me of Boldport, who made project kits that were also works of art [0]. The funky PCB traces and shapes were all hand-drawn, I believe, rather than drawn up in a regular EDA program. [0] [LINK]

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@naraic0o2022 · in “Fritzing is an open-source electronic design tool”

mitxela did a great video on this topic recently and wrote a plugin for kicad to make the regular geometric layouts more organic. [VIDEO]

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@OisinMoran2025 · in “./watch”

This is gorgeous! I knew you could get different colo(u)red PCBs but had no idea about transparent solder masks. Even more reason to "Melt your circuit boards" video: [VIDEO] blog: [LINK]

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