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Melt your circuit boards

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

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2 HN users recommended this demo2 months2022–2025 score 2

Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

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

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

“mitxela did a great video on this topic recently and wrote a plugin for kicad to make the regular geometric layouts more organic.” (HN, 2022)

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@naraic0o May 2022 Recommends

on HN thread 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]

Great video with a KiCad plugin making geometric layouts organic

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@OisinMoran Oct 2025 Recommends

on HN thread ./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]

Melting circuit boards for artistic PCBs with transparent solder masks

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@zxcvgm Apr 2022 Cites it

on HN thread 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]

The author's own video about organic-looking PCB layouts

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