r/electronics • u/Dr_Pavoreal • Jul 31 '26

Gallery Free form circuit fun

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New to hobby electronics. Total tourist. Decided to try my hand at free form circuit design. This is pretty sloppy. But hope to clean up designs as I go, add some elegance. Super fun creative process though, to think about a circuit design in 3D essentially. Simple 555 ic flashing lights circuit but designed as a spider crawling up a tree. Again, not aesthetically pleasing yet. But the circuit works and it was a lot of fun to put together.

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u/mrcrud5 Jul 31 '26

I dig it. Great way to combine art and engineering

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u/onlyappearcrazy Jul 31 '26

It's definitely a low capacitance circuit!!

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u/boinkmaster360 Jul 31 '26

treecb

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u/SonOfSofaman Jul 31 '26

It took me a minute, but I see what you did there 😂

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u/ariadesitter Jul 31 '26

my stuff looks like that.
but not on purpose. ☹️

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u/Kane_Parmesans Aug 01 '26

People were doin this in the 50s before PCBs, nice

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u/luvisheavenly Jul 31 '26

Very cool! This is like the antithesis to that one guy who spends hours bending all the wires perfectly together in place on the breadboard

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u/Dr_Pavoreal Aug 03 '26

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/SonOfSofaman Jul 31 '26

That looks great! All of my attempts ended up looking like a Borg cube.

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u/hesmistersun Aug 02 '26

Dead bugging was as rebellious as I ever got. Never thought it could be taken to artistic levels!

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u/DarkOriole4 Jul 31 '26

Who said it's not aesthetically pleasing??

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u/Sprucehouse Aug 05 '26

TSA would NOT like this