Circuit Tree

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By Sean Michael Ragan
Posted 2011/05/04 @ 6:01 am
Category Art & Design, Electronics

Above, Circuit Tree; below, City Circuits. See more of Wadesboro, NC, artist Joe Liles’ PCB art in his online portfolio. [via nerdstink]

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20 Responses to Circuit Tree

Sean M Westcott on May 4th, 2011 at 1:24 pm said:

wow Nice now to make it look cool and do something mmmm I have a plan ….

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AndrewS on May 4th, 2011 at 2:03 pm said:

but is it a circuit?
or just an etch..

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Nolo Promittere on May 4th, 2011 at 2:09 pm said:

It’s not a circuit – a circuit has to have a closed path to work – that tree has nothing but open ends – not one single closed loop anywhere!

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- Tim on May 9th, 2011 at 3:26 am said:
  
  Dude, its on PCB, thats the point. And not all printed circuits have to be closed, some are just to ground stuff or connect to something.
  
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  Nolo Promittere on June 16th, 2011 at 4:40 pm said:
  
  If it’s just a ground, it’s not a circuit. If it connects to something, it must connect to at least two points of that thing to qualify as a circuit.
  
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  Gareth Jones on June 20th, 2011 at 12:31 am said:
  
  It’s a pun dude. Circuit tree – circuitry. Artsy and cute, not designed for a function. Doesn’t matter if it’s not a circuit, the word play stands because it’s on circuit board, which is fun, imho.
  
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- raul herrera on May 15th, 2011 at 12:40 am said:
  
  an antenna doesn’t need to have closed ends
  
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  Nolo Promittere on June 16th, 2011 at 4:41 pm said:
  
  an antenna isn’t, strictly speaking, a circuit either It can be connected to a circuit, but it isn’t one in and of itself.
  
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- TKA on June 3rd, 2011 at 8:34 pm said:
  
  Did you point that out to your girlfriend? Oh wait…
  
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  Nolo Promittere on June 16th, 2011 at 4:38 pm said:
  
  Good call! You are correct, I don’t have a girlfriend – my wife and four kids keep me too busy to socialize (next time, check the link to the name – you might save yourself some embarassment).
  
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Anonymous on May 4th, 2011 at 3:44 pm said:

nice. just try to compute the RF/bandwidth/radiation-pattern/efficiency of any of those used as an (RFID/bluetooth) antenna.

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- Jim Messerli on August 19th, 2011 at 2:49 am said:
  
  looks like it would be very broad band, maybe a pattern like a dipole if feed from the middle, although it would probably need a bit of tweaking. it would be cool to design an antenna for say a wi-fi antenna to set on a desktop that maybe looked like a tree, but plugged into a laptop to give a better connection.
  
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Alex Varney on May 4th, 2011 at 4:21 pm said:

It would be nice if the skyline had actual LEDs in it too, or if you could in some way make it an interactive piece of art.

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Drew Harwell on May 4th, 2011 at 7:08 pm said:

It would be much cooler if it did anything.

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Duck on May 5th, 2011 at 7:27 am said:

Nerds. It’s Art, deal with it

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Gareth Jones on June 20th, 2011 at 12:23 am said:

Circuit Tree. It’s a pun. Has nobody else noticed that? It doesn’t matter what the title implies – it’s a gag. A circuit board in the lovely pattern of a tree. A circuitry. x

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Gareth Jones on June 20th, 2011 at 12:23 am said:

Circuit Tree. It’s a pun. Has nobody else noticed that? It doesn’t matter what the title implies – it’s a gag. A circuit board in the lovely pattern of a tree. A circuitry. x

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Anonymous on July 31st, 2011 at 1:17 am said:

I like how the first one looks like a brain.

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