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    Melt your circuit boards

    mitxela

    2 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2022–2025

    YouTube

    11:58 · 471K views · Apr 14, 2022

    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.

    Hardware & ElectronicsElectronics & circuit designCreative coding & generative art
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    3 comments from Hacker News

    1. @OisinMoranOct 2025· 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: this video blog: [LINK]

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    2. @naraic0oMay 2022· 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. this video

      RecommendsView on HN
    3. @zxcvgmApr 2022· in “Melting KiCad”

      The author has also made a video about it recently: this 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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