Maker Faire Downtown Columbia 2023

Circuit Breaker Labs

Home: Maryland, United States

Scientist-turned-artist Amanda Preske of Circuit Breaker Labs transforms electronic waste into home décor and gifts. Her work incorporates discarded circuit boards, keyboards, and electronic components and features local and scientific themes.

https://becausesciencedc.com/collections/circuit-breaker-labs
Categories: Art & Design, Craft, Science, Wearables,
Circuit Breaker Labs - Maker Faire Downtown Columbia

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Amanda Preske

What Inspired You to Make This?

I love science and I love art, and when I was working in a lab, I was taken by the amount of electronic junk that just hangs around. Not knowing anything about circuitry, but lots of things about crafting, I started tinkering and came up with a cool way to make jewelry by combining circuit boards with resin. Then, when I learned about routers and started experimenting with one (I have a Carvey), the possibilities for what I could make with circuit boards became limitless, so now a lot of what I make is intricate cut/piecework made from motherboards and other upcycled electronic bits (haha pun intended).