THE VIDEO SHELF · organic pcb design
Melt your circuit boards
mitxela shows his KiCad plugin that rounds PCB tracks to give circuit boards organic, melted-looking layouts instead of rigid geometric ones.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a great creative PCB-design video and linked in threads on KiCad and artistic boards.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- mitxela
- Topic
- organic pcb design
- Format
- demo
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2022–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
mitxela did a great video on this topic recently and wrote a plugin for kicad to make the regular geometric layouts more organic. [VIDEO]
naraic0o on Hacker News · 2022-05
In Fritzing is an open-source electronic design toolThis 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: [VIDEO] blog: [LINK]
OisinMoran on Hacker News · 2025-10
In ./watch
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.