The Electronic Art...well...

[Zucca]

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/julie-alice-chappell-insect-sculptures-circuit-boards

ahhh and how we can not mention this...

http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/electrofun.html

[Mechanical Menace]

Seems a bit misleading, the vast majority of the art is custom made, then stuck onto a cut down PCB. This is a bit like painting with new paints on a news canvas, putting it in a frame made of reclaimed wood, and saying the painting was made of recycled materials...

[amyk]

using circuit boards found inside discarded electronics

...and brand-new resistors, apparently.

[ivan747]

I find nothing wrong with it. I don't think the point was making it fully recycled and stuff. The point is reusing something she found interesting, at least that's my interpretation. Giving new life to dead electronics boards. In this case the butterfly and some materials represent the new life, and he board is the core of the art piece, the one that's given a new chance. Also the wings seems to be made out of old keyboard flex boards, permanently tinted.

[electr_peter]

Neat. I think it is art by all means. I would like to have some of these butterflies for special occasions as gifts...

[kc9qvl]

While the wings are not circuit board material. They are pretty.
She did use old keyboard membranes at some point.

https://juliealicechappellart.wordpress.com/

[bitwelder]

How about this one?

[mtdoc]

Yes, Art....
There's this:


or this:


Uhmm and this:


But my personal favorite is this:

[tom66]

This is miles better than the typical modern art rubbish that seems to be very common these days. The reuse element is neat, but ignorning even that they look really good. Certainly not something any idiot could put together.

[Asmyldof]

using circuit boards found inside discarded electronics

...and brand-new resistors, apparently.

It says made from discarded electronics.
Things like specific through hole resistors get discarded daily, used or not, so these can very easily all be discarded.

My first hobby supplies came from the Royal Dutch Phillips Company (that's what they were back then, just Phillips now), as they would discard stock a few months after a project ended, because stocking generals is much more expensive in the long run than just buying the exact values you need when you need them.
With a father working there it was very doable to get the contents of those garbage containers to sort into a nice mix of E24/E48/E96 resistor values, weird capacitor types, chips and more.

[Muxr]

How about this one?

That's beautiful. Would love to see Dave's reaction tearing down a product to find a PCB like that.

[Asmyldof]

How about this one?

That's beautiful. Would love to see Dave's reaction tearing down a product to find a PCB like that.

I have now made it my personal mission, even if I have to pay out of pocket for extra signal layers, to do something like this to a future project. I'm fairly sure it'll cost me 2 layers + prepreg workmanship fee though, what with relocating drill holes and vias and pretty much ruling out any high fidelity analogue signals or high speed digital lanes on one side.

[amyk]

That's a Japanese FPGA board. There's another one here, and I'm not surprised at their typicalcombine everything with cuteness, even electronics.

[German_EE]

See, science and art can coexist 

[smjcuk]

See, science and art can coexist 

Of course they can

I'm a big fan of some GDR/DDR art. There was a big drive to promote science and industry and it lead to some nice works.

[Zucca]

I have now made it my personal mission, even if I have to pay out of pocket for extra signal layers, to do something like this to a future project.

+1, I´m in too.