Catwalk around the PCB

I call it an ESD ring – surrounds the board edge to tie connector shells and such and catches the sparky-sparky events and dumps them back to battery/power-supply ground via a net-tie.

Kicad has no bezier curves, and arcs are super primitive, so it is challenging on an non-rectangular board to do it with traces. See my attempt to hack it:

But @blackcoffee’s technique looks like a good way to go.

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