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Living Art — Blue Flowers MKII

Electronics, Living Art, School February 27th, 2006

I completed the second version of my blue flower. This time instead of making a circuit board I etched a copper sheet directly leaving me bare copper circuit traces which could then be bent into shape. Soldering to the copper was difficult because of the large mass of copper sucking the heat away. It was important for me to make a circuit that is it’s own structure. There is an efficiency of design in nature — nothing is wasted and no parts of the structure are without purpose. This flower is an effort to design according to those lines.

The component layout was designed in Eagle and printed out. The petals were then drawn by hand over the component pads, scanned, and cleaned up in Photoshop. The finished layout was laser printed and transferred to copper sheet, which was etched with ferric chloride and cleaned with laquer thinner.

2 Responses to “Living Art — Blue Flowers MKII”

  1. Michael Ang » Living Art - Flower Construction Says:
    February 27th, 2006 at 10:55 pm

    [...] Annotated construction pics from my etched copper blue electronic flowers MKII. Also includes testing pics from Todd’s flourescent fibonacci series.   [...]

  2. fun evening at dorkbot, sf | Myrtle Street Labs Says:
    September 24th, 2009 at 9:00 am

    [...] Ang) followed up, talking about his Inverse Parasol (featured earlier by Myrtle Street Labs), his Blue Flower biologically inspired LED flower, his Strange Attractor project, and his gorgeous Gigapan [...]

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