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NTAG213 NFC Circuit Rings

NTAG213 NFC Circuit Rings
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These stainless steel rings have a high-tech, cyberpunk look thanks to a flexible circuit board wrapped around their middle. The circuit doesn’t just serve a decorative purpose – it has a built-in NFC NTAG213 chip that can wirelessly store data using a smartphone app like NFC Tools.

Decapsulating an Integrated Circuit

Decapsulating an Integrated Circuit

Integrated circuits are incredible examples of miniaturization. And while the chip shown in this video doesn’t represent the kind of complexity and density found in modern processors, it still provides a fascinating look at the interior of a circuit, as its silicon is removed layer by layer with a powerful fiber laser.

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Why Circuit Boards Are Green

Why Circuit Boards Are Green

With their green and copper color scheme, circuit boards have a distinctive look. It turns out that there’s a good reason that so many of them are the same color. Today I Found Out offers an in-depth explanation of how circuit boards are made, what they’re made from, and why they look like they do.

Circuit Board Tungsten Ring

Circuit Board Tungsten Ring
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C9T Tungsten makes unique rings from silver and tungsten. Among them is this band inspired by the traces on a circuit board. It features a crimson and black carbon fiber inlay and can be ordered in 9mm or 5mm sizes with free inside engraving available. They also have a 10mm version in green.

Motherboard Chopping Board

Motherboard Chopping Board
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This circuit board-inspired glass cutting board is a great kitchen accessory for tech geeks. Unlike an actual motherboard, it’s perfectly smooth, so you don’t have to worry about getting bits of onion stuck in the electronics. If the circuit looks familiar to you, that’s because it’s based on the board inside the classic Sinclair ZX81 PC.

Deck of Robots Playing Cards

Deck of Robots Playing Cards
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Stellar Factory’s imaginative deck of cards takes us inside a top-secret facility run by robots. The face cards are illustrated with robots performing tasks like testing games and printing playing cards, while the rest of the deck is embellished with binary code and circuit traces.

Gen.S Processor Artisan Keycaps

Gen.S Processor Artisan Keycaps
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These unique resin keycaps have an intricate design inspired by circuit boards and computer chips. Each one is translucent, allowing backlighting to glow through and illuminate the circuit design inside. They’re selling out fast over on Drop, so order soon. Note: the price is for an individual keycap.

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Circuit Playing Cards

Circuit Playing Cards
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Elephant’s playing card tech-decks feature custom illustrated fronts and backs inspired by the intricate traces on printed circuit boards. They come in blue, green, white, or our favorite, a premium edition with two-tone foil on its box, and gold and silver metallic inks.

Circuit Board Spaceships

Circuit Board Spaceships
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Artist Daniel Shankalonian takes old circuit boards and other electronics, and recycles them into desktop sculptures. Among his many creations are spaceships from Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and Star Trek, as well as a model of NASA’s Space Shuttle. He also made an awesome sculpture of BioShock’s Big Daddy bouncer.

How PCB Parts Get Soldered On

How PCB Parts Get Soldered On

Every electronic device we rely on uses printed circuit boards. Scotty Allen of Strange Parts takes us inside the PCBWay factory in Shenzhen, China to see how the pros do it in volume, accurately, and with miniscule parts. If you’re interested in how they make the circuit boards themselves, watch this.

Stylophone Business Card

Stylophone Business Card

Artist, designer, and musician Tim Alex Jacobs or Mixtela shows off one of the coolest business cards ever. His custom-designed card has a built in printed circuit board and metallic keys that serve as a tiny stylophone-style MIDI controller when plugged into a USB port.

Sketching Electronics

Sketching Electronics

Who says that circuit boards need to look the way they do? Using a conductive pen, ferrous paper and some magnetic conductors, you can turn any sketch into a functional electronic circuit.

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