Twinkling Toucan
The Twinkling Toucan is a handcrafted circuit board. It explores the streamlined process of ordering printed circuit boards (PCBs). This is done by replicating that process in a detailed manner with a focus on producing a singular circuit board. The Twinkling Toucan displays the unseen mechanics which are employed in PCBs. It is comprised of a copper plated resin based which had a sublimated guide heat pressed into it. Then the undesired copper was eaten away by an acid bath providing a guide for the components to be soldered. An acrylic shield was laser cut then covered with a sublimation sticker depicting a toucan. This was fastened on and back lit by the LEDs.
The circuit board design that was done in EasyEDA.
The sublimation sticker process.
The guide which was heat pressed onto the copper plate, and the copper after the acid bath.
