Circuit Board Accessories

Christoph Koch's necklace of recycled circuit boards, sterling silver, magnets. photo by Christine Dhein. 2008.

How would you feel if I tell you that you don’t need to lighten your pockets but will get a great décor item? I know I’ll feel delirious! All you need is just to dust off that old useless computer of yours. Because today I’ll tell you Brilliant Ways to Reuse Old Computer Parts For Decoration.

Artists breathe new life into dead computer hardware with beautiful, unique jewelry made from circuit boards, wires, resistors, and more.

Description Printed Circuit Board Jewelry! These necklaces are made of a computer motherboard that was being thrown out. I meticulously stripped the motherboard of its thousands of tiny surface mount and through hole parts, then cut pieces out and refinished them using a rather picky process to expose the usually covered by epoxy resin copper traces you can see here. Each one is finished so it's soft to the skin, and is clear coated so the copper should not tarnish on the PCB's themselves.

This listing is for handmade, upcycled or recycled, and (optional) personalized key chains made out of my kids' old computer parts. I harvested appropriately sized parts out of their computers, such as memory cards, and USB port cards. Attached silver hardware and split rings for keys. Also personalized with letter beads that we have around the house from when my kids were of the age to craft with such beads, strung on either beige or black cord. (See example on black cord hat says MOM.)…

After years of being surrounded by computers, Rodrig discovered something beautiful about the old circuit boards constantly being discarded around him. He could no longer stand the disposal of these aesthetically perfect pieces of technology that simply

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The Blue Kraken creates beautiful jewelry and works of art from recycled circuit boards and other computer hardware.

The Blue Kraken creates beautiful jewelry and works of art from recycled circuit boards and other computer hardware.

How to Make Beautiful PCB Keyrings From Recycled Printed Circuit Boards: There are a lot of PCBs that end up in landfills when an appliance reaches its end of life. Some go to recycling but some are left into junk drawers at makers like me where we keep them for parts scavenging. If you need new PCBs, you can get great …