Melt your circuit boards
mitxela2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2022–2025
demo · intermediate · evergreen · 2022–2025 on HN
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.
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3 comments from Hacker News
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
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
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