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Circuit board art community
Where the circuit board art community meets in person and online
Workshops, showcases, and craft-alongs worth attending
Attending an event where everyone in the room is working from salvaged electronics is a
different experience from browsing a forum. Technique questions get answered in real time,
board types get compared side by side, and finishing approaches that read ambiguously in
written guides become immediately legible when demonstrated on an actual piece. The
community runs events across Australian cities and online throughout the year, covering the
full range of skill levels and project scales. Whether the interest is in a first cutting
session, a multi-panel framing challenge, or simply seeing finished circuit board art
displayed under proper gallery lighting, there is an event format here that fits. Details
for each upcoming event are listed below, including location, format, and any material or
tool requirements participants are expected to bring.
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Upcoming community events
March 14, 2026
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Beginner Board Cutting Workshop — Sydney
A hands-on session designed for members who have sourced their first boards but
have not yet made a cut. The session covers material assessment, safe handling
of fibreglass substrates, and the three-stage preparation process used across
community tutorials. Participants work on their own salvaged boards with access
to scroll saws, jeweller's files, and low-VOC sealants provided on the day.
Facilitator Margaret Osei leads the session and reviews each board before
cutting begins. Participants are encouraged to bring two or three boards of
different types to allow for comparison. No prior electronics or craft
experience is required. All skill levels are welcome, though the session is
specifically structured to give beginners a methodical entry point rather than
an accelerated overview.
Maker Hub, Sydney NSW
April 3, 2026
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Virtual Resin Casting and Finishing Craft-Along
An online session focused on one of the more technically demanding stages of
circuit board art — encasing boards or board sections in casting resin to
produce smooth, display-ready surfaces. Tomás Brennan leads the session with a
comparative demonstration of three resin types across different board
substrates, including results from prior testing. Priya Nair joins to review the
low-VOC and water-based options that have performed reliably in community
finishing tests. Participants follow along using their own materials, and the
session pauses at each stage to allow questions before proceeding. The format
suits members who have completed at least one cutting project and are ready to
move to finishing. A materials list is published on the community forum one week
before the session date so participants can prepare.
Online via community platform
May 8 – 10, 2026
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Circuit Board Art Exhibition — Melbourne Gallery Showcase
The annual Melbourne showcase brings together finished circuit board art pieces from community members across Australia, displayed under gallery lighting conditions in a curated exhibition format. Daniel Kwok coordinates curation and installation, applying the same submission standards used for the online gallery to ensure consistency across the exhibited works. Pieces range from small framed panels to large multi-board installations, and sourcing notes are displayed alongside each work where the contributor has provided them. The exhibition is open to the public across three days, with a community evening on the first night for members and contributors. Submission deadlines and mounting specifications are published on the forum well in advance. Members interested in exhibiting a piece are encouraged to contact the gallery coordinator before the submission window opens.
Gallery space, Melbourne VIC
June 19, 2026
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Online Sourcing and Sustainability Q&A Session
A community session led by Priya Nair addressing the two questions that come up most consistently in the forum — where to find boards without purchasing them, and which finishing materials carry the lowest environmental impact. The session draws on the community's sourcing directory, which maps recycling drop-off points, repair cafés, and decommissioned-equipment suppliers across Australian states. Priya also presents the most recent annual comparison of sealants and adhesives, covering performance on fibreglass and epoxy substrates alongside VOC content and availability in Australian retail. The format is open question and answer with structured presentation segments. Members who have sourcing contacts not yet listed in the community directory are encouraged to share them during the session. No tools or materials are needed to attend.
Online via community platform
July 26, 2026
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Multi-Panel Framing and Mounting Challenge — Brisbane
A structured community challenge held over a single day in Brisbane, focused on the logistical and compositional problems that arise when scaling a circuit board art project beyond a single framed panel. Daniel Kwok leads sessions on spatial arrangement and mounting hardware selection, with reference to how larger pieces behave under different lighting conditions based on exhibition experience. Participants bring their own boards and work toward a finished or near-finished multi-panel design by the end of the day. The challenge format includes a peer review segment in the afternoon where members share progress and receive structured feedback from the facilitators. Intermediate experience with cutting and single-panel finishing is recommended before attending. A list of recommended tools and materials is published on the forum two weeks before the event.
Community workshop, Brisbane QLD
How the community's event history developed
2019
First informal meetup held in a Sydney workshop space
A small group of members who had been exchanging technique notes on the forum met in person for the first time in a shared Sydney workshop. The session was unstructured, lasting an afternoon, and focused on comparing how different board types responded to hand tools. No formal facilitation was planned, but the exchange of material observations produced enough documented insight to seed the first three community technique guides. Attendance was modest and the format was deliberately low-pressure — a characteristic that has remained consistent across all subsequent events.
2021
Community transitions to regular virtual craft-along sessions
With in-person gatherings temporarily impractical, the community moved its event activity online and discovered that virtual craft-along sessions attracted members from regional areas of Australia who had not previously been able to attend in-person events. Participation broadened considerably, and the format of pausing between technique stages to answer questions before continuing became a standard structure that the community retained for online events even after in-person gatherings resumed. Several of the most referenced community tutorials trace their origin to clarifications made during these sessions.
2022
First formal gallery showcase held in Melbourne with curated submissions
The community's first formally curated exhibition was held across two days in a Melbourne gallery space, with Daniel Kwok coordinating submission review and installation. Consistent curation criteria were applied for the first time, and sourcing notes were displayed alongside exhibited pieces as standard practice. The show demonstrated that circuit board art, displayed under proper gallery lighting with documented provenance, reads very differently from the same work photographed for an online submission. The exhibition format has been refined each year since, with the submission window and mounting specifications published further in advance with each iteration.
2023
Annual sourcing and sustainability session introduced as a standalone event
Sourcing questions had been a recurring feature of every workshop and craft-along, prompting the community to establish a dedicated annual session focused exclusively on board sourcing and finishing material selection. Priya Nair took on facilitation, drawing on the community's sourcing directory and the annual finishing product comparison she maintains. The session attracted members who had not previously attended events, including several who had boards available but had not known where to start with responsible sourcing or low-impact finishing. The format has since expanded to include a structured question period and a directory update segment.
2024
Multi-panel challenge format introduced across two Australian cities
Responding to forum discussions about the specific difficulties of scaling circuit board art beyond a single panel, the community introduced a structured day-long challenge format focused on multi-panel composition, framing, and mounting. Events were held in Brisbane and Adelaide in the same month, allowing the facilitators to compare how the challenge played out across different participant groups and available board stocks. The peer review segment introduced during these events — where participants share progress and receive structured facilitator feedback in the afternoon — proved sufficiently useful that it has been retained as a standard feature of all subsequent in-person challenge events.
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