Melt your circuit boards
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a great creative PCB-design video and linked in threads on KiCad and artistic boards.
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.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2022 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Recommends naraic0o · 2022-05 · 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. [this video]
Recommends OisinMoran · 2025-10 · 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: [this video] blog: [LINK]
Cites zxcvgm · 2022-04 · on “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]