Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/05/25/bendy-circuits.html
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Prettier than real circuit boards, despite being less colorful.
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In fact, they look almost nothing like circuit boards. It’s like the blind man and the elephant.
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I could not identify a single electronic component other than wires… on a modern pcb? Maybe some capactitors. But really? a trace like this?
Otherwise very pretty.
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Actually I did traces like this on real PCBs. They are useful when you need a track of a given length (like connecting modern DRAM to CPU).
PCBs for microwave RF signals can have even weirder track shapes, and the track itself can serve as various passive components:
http://www.kerrywong.com/2017/09/01/teardown-and-experiments-with-a-doppler-microwave-transceiver/
These art boards indeed look nice, but remind me a bit of cargo cult airplanes.
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I’m still waiting to see functional circuit boards made to look like other recognizable things, like city street or organisms.
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I’ve had a number of one-off circuit cards designed for test equipment. These low volume designs give me a chance to play. On one board I used the silkscreen to print street addresses on the traces, then each component was given a street address in the reference-guide.
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Interesting!
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