OisinMoranOct 2025Recommends
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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Melt your circuit boards
Melt your circuit boards on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2022–2025.
mitxela
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mitxela shows his KiCad plugin that rounds PCB tracks to give circuit boards organic, melted-looking layouts instead of rigid geometric ones.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a great creative PCB-design video and linked in threads on KiCad and artistic boards.
- people recommended it
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- 2022–2025
“mitxela did a great video on this topic recently and wrote a plugin for kicad to make the regular geometric layouts more organic.”
What HN commenters said
3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
naraic0oMay 2022Recommends
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
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zxcvgmApr 2022Cites it
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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