Turning dead boards into art?

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Hey guys...what are your thoughts about using dead boards as art? I've entertained the thought of taking some of the dead boards I have, putting them in display boxes with wooden frames, printed game image background and glass cover, and mounting them on my wall.

Sacrilege, or neat idea?
 
If you mount them in a way so that if someone wanted to try to fix and reuse them later they wouldn't be ruined, you might pre-empt any critics.
 
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If you mount them in a way so that if someone wanted to try to fix and reuse them later they wouldn't be ruined, you might pre-empt any critics.

Absolutely...that's the caveat to the whole deal. The boards themselves wouldn't be touched, except maybe to clean them up as little or stick on labels on the ROMs if they're missing. Otherwise I'm mount some standoffs to them, put them in the enclosure and they'd be stock board protected by glass.
 
I work at Intel, and one of the motherboard groups displays each of their prototype boards as you describe. I think it looks cool, but I'm a nerdy electrical engineer... :)
 
I have a revision A pac board I want to mount in a shadow box and hang in my pac room. Its the only one I have seen out of several hundred boards I have had. All other boards are revision B.
 
I made these "PCB Invaders" out of a batch of bad boards that got shipped to me by mistake.

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Really...:D Hell why not save the power bricks that shit the bed and use them as paper weights or collect the dust balls and create some arcade art.... there is no end to what people come up with...not saying its bad just saying I don't see the art in this...but hey maybe with a fancy frame an acid damaged board could still hold some charm.
 
If anyone's interested in donating a few dead boards for me to experiment with for proof-of-concept, let me know. If it works out well, I'd send the framed boards back to you, for the cost of the shipping only. Don't have to be anything super rare, just intact and maybe interesting looking. Three or four would do it. I have a Robocop and 2/3 of a dead TRON boardset I'm going to try as well.
 
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I can envision it and think it could look cool too. Like you said, add a "screen" of the game, maybe a flyer/ad or other related item(s) along with the board in a shadowbox type setting = win!
 
If anyone's interested in donating a few dead boards for me to experiment with for proof-of-concept, let me know. If it works out well, I'd send the framed boards back to you, for the cost of the shipping only. Don't have to be anything super rare, just intact and maybe interesting looking. Three or four would do it. I have a Robocop and 2/3 of a dead TRON boardset I'm going to try as well.

So youll frame it and send it back? sure i have a board for that pm me your addy.
 
Anyone else watch the Big Bang Theory?
On occasion, they show Leonard's bedroom. If you look just to the left of the door, there is what i believe to be a circuit board hanging on the wall. I'm not 100% sure what it is, as its usually just a quick glance, but i'd guess something from an atari vector game.
 
I have a box with dozens of various cpu coolers (typically Al, but sometimes they're Al/Cu) that I plan on doing something with eventually. Some of them are really quite cool looking and almost works of art on their own.
 
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