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Melt your circuit boards

mitxela · demo · Watch on YouTube

Electronics & circuit designCreative coding & generative art

What it is

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.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2022, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “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

    naraic0o, 2022-05 · Recommendation · in “Fritzing is an open-source electronic design tool”

  2. “Melting circuit boards for artistic PCBs with transparent solder masks”

    OisinMoran, 2025-10 · Recommendation · in “./watch”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: kicad, pcb layout, plugin, electronics, art

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