naraic0oon Hacker News • Recommends
On “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. link to this video
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- A classic. People kept recommending it from 2022 to 2025.
- Presented by mitxela, hardware hacker and developer
- Linked in the descriptionmitxela/kicad-round-tracks
Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.
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mitxela demonstrates his KiCad plugin that rounds PCB tracks to create organic, melted-looking circuit board layouts.
Plugin info: github.com/mitxela/kicad-round-tracks mitxela.com/melting_kicad mitxela.com/melting_kicad_2 Support me: patreon.com/mitxela paypal.me/mitxela mitxela.bandcamp.comWhy it's here
2 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended as a beautiful demonstration of creative PCB design and custom KiCad scripting.
OisinMoranon Hacker News • Recommends
On “./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: link to this video blog: link
zxcvgmon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Melting KiCad”
The author has also made a video about it recently: link to 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