Life & fun · December 18, 2020
How to make full colour PCB art
This post describes our initial ideas, the common pitfalls, and finally a working way of adding full colour PCB art to electronics projects.
How to make full colour PCB art launched on December 18, 2020 with 79 votes, #552 of 3,242 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.
In plain words
This resource teaches people how to create full-color artwork on printed circuit boards. It covers the techniques and processes needed to design and produce PCB art as a creative medium. The guide is aimed at hobbyists, makers, and artists interested in combining electronics with visual art. It stands out by providing practical instructions for a niche craft that transforms circuit boards into colorful artistic pieces.
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From the sources
Beautiful PCB design has thrived in the past few years. With personal projects and event badges alike, hackers have been pushing the limits of the artistic beauty they can put in their circuit boards. The community of PCB enthusiasts has experimented with combining colours of silkscreen, copper or ENIG, and solder mask to make sweet graphics . They’ve convinced PCB houses to use multiple layers of silkscreen , have stamped colours of their own , and have even gone multidimensional . I got hooked on event badges after falling in love with SHA2017 , and have been involved in making badges for a bunch of events ever since. For every new badge we make, we have some innate drive to push the…from pixel.curious.supplies
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