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Boldport
Company blog · boldport.com/blog · on HN as saardhardwaredesign
Boldport is the company blog at boldport.com, writing about hardware and design. Since 2011, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Beautiful PCBs and diamonds”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Boldport's blog and shop for hand-drawn, art-like PCB and soldering kits, the 'haute-circuits' post on making PCB gerbers from SVG, and FPGA build tooling docs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Electronics craftsmanship. We are an electronics design studio creating innovative electronic products with attention to functional and aesthetic elements.
Most-linked posts?
- Beautiful PCBs and diamonds3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-01-27
What Hacker News says?
I've used SVG to design custom PCBs using traces as magnetic coils, something that, surprisingly, doesn't have a good industrial software package for. Everything in PCB design software is geared toward routing wires conveniently between components, but if you try to actually use the wires as actual components, it's almost impossible to freely design. And even regular PCB design software feels almost unchanged since…
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on “SVG can do that?”Submitted The license is the license as a story · 61 points
HN discussionThe author has also made a video about it recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euJgtLcWWyo 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] https://boldport.com/shop?category=Soldering+projects
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on “Melting KiCad”Submitted Edge detect ad nauseam as a story · 8 points
HN discussionMy golden rule: "people’s time is precious" https://www.boldport.com/blog/?p=234
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on “How to send and reply to email”Submitted Beyond Square and Green – PCB boards turned beauties as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSomewhat related and in reverse, generate beautiful [0] gerbers for manufacture from SVG/JSON definitions using PCBmodE. [1] [0] http://www.boldport.com/blog/2015/11/25/haute-circuits [1] http://pcbmode.com/
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on “Pcb-stackup: Generate beautiful and accurate SVG renders of printed circuit boards”Submitted Beautiful PCBs and diamonds as a story · 7 points
HN discussionClickables: http://www.boldport.com https://www.boldport.com/docs/fpgaproj
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on “Show HN: FPGA build environment generator”Submitted A case study of designing a trophy for engineers – Boldport as a story · 6 points
HN discussionHello. Thanks mafuyu for posting this! I run Boldport, and I could use all the business and advice I can get. So head over to http://boldport.com and tell me what you think ;)
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on “Edge detect ad nauseam”Submitted Haute Circuits as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHello. I run Boldport. (Thanks to whoever posted this.) A better link for that board / reference is http://boldport.com/bp2 (it was Boldport Club Project #1)
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on “My favourite programming language is .. solder”Submitted Haute circuits as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI am reminded of hacker, Saar Drimmer’s work [1]. Like Blake, he was subject to a fair bit of censorship and “blind-eyeing” by the dominant institutions of his day when his work demonstrated chip-and-pin credit card authorization was hopelessly broken [2]. But also like Blake, he turned to reinventing the lithographic machinery of the period to create new mediums for expression. Blake with his printing press, Saar w…
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on “William Blake's Printing Process”Submitted My favourite programming language is .. solder as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ditch That Laptop (Maybe) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sane perception of value of electronics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kickstarter is a tax on people who can't be bothered by the details as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Better Datasheets as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let's talk about '3D printed' circuit boards as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Circuitboards in a fashion magazine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Consumer-grade '3D' circuit printers are mostly useless as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Technical angel as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The EDA digital Stockholm syndrome as a story · 1 points
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