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Circuit and Ornament

As others have shown, it's not that rare a topic, you just have to know how to search for it.

As an engineer I've always found the Gilbert cell to be a thing of beauty, even though its usual schematic drawing isn't quite symmetrical. But its function has a multiway symmetry that you don't see in many things. OTOH, you need to know how the circuit works to know what I'm talking about.

I think others gave lots of examples, but the art in them were peripheral (unrelated) to the electronic functions.

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Ben Bradley
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Many components made by Sun Microsystems have some odd features, which was clearly where the PCB designers had artistic license. I forget what it is now. Ask on comp.sys.sun.hardware - someone there will tell you how many Sun boards have this sort of thing. I'm not sure if its disney names, or something like that.

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Dave

.... "Electronic circuits as an unintentional Ornament".

Frank--Many years ago when I was working at en electronics firm, a collegue obtained a large box of surplus mica capacitors. These were the buff-colored rectangular axial-lead units with unit specs deliniated in a series of colored dots on one side of the capacitor. The body color was quite pleasing, sort of a "desert-sand" look, and the uniform-sized color dots were quite visible.

He built a small coffee table with a thin raised edge, arranged the capacitors with their leads cut off flush in a very pleasing and interesting tiled pattern with the colors showing, then poured a clear epoxy or polyethylene solution over them. The result was a durable finish with the capacitors embedded down in the clear poly (something like those old liberty-ship hatch covers used as table tops in seaside reataurants).

Strangely belive it, I thought it looked rather elegant.

Cheers--

Terry--WB4FXD Edenton, NC

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Terry

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