silkreel
KiCad board in, release film out. silk reel renders a .kicad_pcb as a lit, scored product film or a typographic loop, built from the board's real copper, parts and silkscreen. MP4, GIF, WebM and ProRes with alpha.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 24, 2026 · 40 upvotes (top 32%) · 0 views
Niche: video production and processing tools · 243 launches, 40 in the last 7 days ▲ +60% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- animation
- canvas
- cli
- electronics
- ffmpeg
- generative-art
- +12 more
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Could you build this?
Yes The tool parses a documented KiCad file format and renders the board to video with WebGL or a similar renderer, exporting through ffmpeg. This is a graphics and file-format project that AI-assisted coding can handle.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 61 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #20 of 62 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 333 days after the earliest competitor.
- KiCad Viewer · ph · 2026-10-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- WholeBoard · github · 2026-10-21 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Handcrafted Phantom Twist Whisky Glass · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Typmax · ph · 2026-11-13 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- PewCB · ph · 2026-09-22 · 67 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- BoardDoctor · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Packaging Films Manufacturer in india · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- PCBCOOL · ph · 2026-10-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.35
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