In this PCB art project, a surface mount LED is mounted on a flexible PCB “flower” connected to rigid PCB “pot” with a coincell battery:
Both PCBs were designed in KiCad PCB:
Using a second flexible PCB flower to diffuse the LED produced the best results
The PCBs are available as shared projects:
Alex Glow of Hackster.io takes a look at the OSHWi octopus badge designed by Gustavo Reynaga:
The design files and source code are available on GitHub:
GReynaga has shared the board on OSH Park:
Oshwi Badge HACKSTER Version Rev 1
JinGen Lim created this beautiful project:
I had little experience with fabric, but building a lapel out of PCB seemed like something that might just work. PCBs are typically built with extremely high tolerances for its copper and mask layers and still acceptably accurate for the silkscreen.
Brian Benchoff wrote on Hackaday about the amazing PCB artwork that he’s seen so far in 2017:
PCB art is getting better and better every year. This year, though, is knocking it out of the park. In March, Andrew Sowa turned me into money.
More recently, Trammell Hudson has explored the layers of OSH Park soldermask and silk to create a masterpiece.
Now, we’re moving up to full-blown art. Blake Ramsdell worked with OSH Park to create a full panel of art in gold, fiberglass, soldermask, and silkscreen. It’s 22×16 inches, and it’s fantastic.
David I. Herman just created a Facebook group for PCB paintings.
Sarah Petkus posts an update on her Robotic Arts blog about her NoodleFeet robot:
This summer, I am once again diving into designing mechanical personality quirks. I’ll be investigating new and exciting ways for my robot, NoodleFeet to interact with the world. This time, my focus is the wet, tingly and preferential aspect of TASTE.
From now until the end of August, my goal is to produce four different tasting modules that each demonstrate some aspect of sampling or preference. You could think of them as the “four tasters of the apocalypse”
If you’re unfamiliar with Sarah and NoodleFeet, then check out here great talk from Hackaday Super Con:
Blake Ramsdell has posted a new batch of hand-drawn PCB artwork on Hackaday.io:
David I. Herman made some impressive new PCB painting pieces, demonstrating subtleties in shading and Art Nouveau inspiration, precision produced by OSH Park
We are trying to figure out what direction to take this blend of technology and art — should we offer pieces for sale, or offer a service for making your own pieces from your own artwork, for instance. We’re certainly going to continue to explore it from a technology and art creative point of view. If you feel inclined, please take a moment to leave a comment, we are interested in your feedback!
Create your own interactive Light elements by soldering basic shapes, such as triangle, square, pentagon and hexagon to create an interactive LED sculpture.
Here’s a video of the Trixel LED boards in action:
The design files are available on GitHub:
Arkadi_Raf has shared the boards on OSH Park:
Andrew Sowa writes about the PCB he designed in KiCad to surprise Brian Benchoff last weekend at the Hackaday Unconference in Chicago:
I thought of making the Benchoff nickel after I saw Brian’s Hackaday,io profile. He has a hi-res image of the center a Benchoff Buck which is well suited to being converted to a PCB. There is only a few colors and they have sharp edges. Bitmap2Component in Kicad, can easily detect these transitions and convert them into a footprint file. With the help of a text editor, I was able to manually layer everything into one complete image.
The KiCad design files are available on GitHub:
Junes-PhD/Benchoff-Nickel
Junes-PhD has shared the project on OSH Park:
Uri Shaked designed this heart-shaped flashlight PCB for his girlfriend’s birthday:
The design files are available on GitHub:
Brian Benchoff of Hackaday writes about a surprise PCB he received at the Hackady Unconference in Chicago last weekend:
For the last few years, Hackaday has really been stepping up our game with marketing materials. Our t-shirts and swag are second to none, and last year we introduced the ‘Benchoff Buck’ [..]
Andrew Sowa created the Benchoff Nickel. It’s a visage of yours truly emblazoned on a PCB, rendered in FR4, silkscreen, gold, and OSHPark’s royal purple.
The Benchoff Nickel was created in KiCad using the Bitmap2Component functionality. Planning this required a little bit of work; there are only five colors you can get on an OSH Park PCB, from white to gold to beige to purple (soldermask on top of copper) to black (soldermask with no copper). Luckily, the best picture we have of me renders very well in five colors.
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