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Re: Clay PCB Tutorial

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Post by jna_sh »

Got to take part in this when they ran it at Creative Coding Utrecht. They had brought a variety of clays for us to use, most wild dug from forests in Austria. But they also had some clay from deep beneath Vienna that they got from (iirc) some new metro digging. It was a lot of fun and the end artefact is very pleasing.

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Post by jna_sh »

belval wrote: post #61

For me the next step should explore how to cut out the firing part of the process altogether, pottery looks cool but the process requires a lot of energy. Perhaps it could be done on a piece of wood planed by hand? You can get those fairly flat. Then use copper tape (or laminate your own copper really) with some homemade adhesive? Actually now that I think about it you could just make pine rosin (pine resin + alcohol…

For what it’s worth, these can be fired in a campfire! No kiln or anything necessary.

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Post by jevndev »

culi wrote: post #56
jevndev wrote: post #34

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To clarify, I really do enjoy the premise of the article. I’m a big fan of circuitry-as-art so I was excited to see what new ideas this brought to the table. It’s clear my tone in my original comment made it seem like I was fully disregarding the article and I’m sorry for coming across that way. In retrospect it was very snippy and it shouldn’t have been. I was just very thrown off by the comment in an article that is otherwise taking itself very seriously.

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Post by oulipo2 »

fwipsy wrote: post #57
oulipo2 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well if you were a creative/researcher-type of person, the mere fact that you don't understand what she hopes to gain would push you to read about it. You'd discover the very real links between tech and gender inequalities (or the reinforcement of other minority inequalities) and you'd have learn something

I think parent comment is probably aware of gender inequalities in tech.

I don't think so, since he's making it clear that he, in fact, doesn't: "I truly don’t understand what the hope to gain from self-classifying this is “feminist”."

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Post by oulipo2 »

fwipsy wrote: post #54
fxtentacle wrote: post #17

I truly don’t understand what the hope to gain from self-classifying this is “feminist”. “FEMINIST HACKING: BUILDING CIRCUITS AS AN ARTISTIC PRACTICE – an international art-based research project financed by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)” Doesn’t that kind of invite the worst type of trolls? They seem to imply that feminist = artistically produced, as opposed to professionally produced PCBs. So masculine = professi…

I think "feminist" here means "socially conscious," not "small-batch/artistic."

It mostly is the (simple) recognition that capitalism is inherently anti-feminist (read about it if you want to learn more).

So feminism, in order to truly exist, HAS to fight against capitalism

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Post by dang »

Brian_K_White wrote: post #62
kennywinker wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How well did Albert Hanson’s flat foil board handle BGAs? Instead of looking for flaws, try looking for the insight. I’m reminded of this blog post that was on hn recently https://scottlawsonbc.com/post/shooting-down-ideas

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Can you please stop posting so aggressively and breaking the site guidelines? You've done it repeatedly in this thread and we're trying for something else here.

If you don't find the current post/comments gratifying of your intellectual curiosity, there are 29 other threads on the frontpage, and if none of those are of interest, you're certain to find something interesting at https://news.ycombinator.com/front and the links back from there.

In the meantime, if you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

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Post by itsdesmond »

WarmWash wrote: post #12
skybrian wrote: post #10

Interesting experiment, but on the other hand, maybe 3D printing would have less emissions than an open fire? I’ve not tried this, but it sounds like a good way to get fast turnaround for very simple circuits: https://bsky.app/profile/castpixel.bsky.social/post/3mf52azn...

It's an art project

I want so badly for you to expand on this thought. What are you implying about it by describing it as an art project? What does art mean to you? Are you expanding on or disputing whether it is an experiment? Please, go on.
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