471K views · Apr 14, 2022 · 11:58 · 2 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2022–2025
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 points people here: Recommended as a great creative PCB-design video and linked in threads on KiCad and artistic boards.
“mitxela did a great video on this topic recently and wrote a plugin for kicad to make the regular geometric layouts more organic.”HN comment, 2022
“mitxela did a great video on this topic recently and wrote a plugin for kicad to make the regular geometric layouts more organic.”
Great video with a KiCad plugin making geometric layouts organic
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
Melting circuit boards for artistic PCBs with transparent solder masks
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
“The author has also made a video about it recently”
The author's own video about organic-looking PCB layouts
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
