Good Idea: Clay as a PCB substrate
https://feministhackerspaces.cargo.site/Clay-PCB-Tutorial
A circuit board is just a substrate that holds conductive traces and components. It does not have to be fiberglass reinforced with brominated flame retardants, sourced through a supply chain running through conflict zones and toxic processing facilities. The Feminist Hardware project at mz* Baltazar's Laboratory in Vienna is experimenting with natural clay and terracotta as alternatives:
Locally sourced, fired, and traced with conductive paste.
The repository includes actual reproducible tutorials, not just theory. Electrical performance will not replace industrial PCBs, but the goal is to demonstrate that basic electronics do not require a global extraction economy, and to build a practical reference for what genuinely local, low-impact hardware production could look like.
Repo: https://github.com/FeministHardware/Making-PCBs-from-natural-clay
Thanks to our friends @klimadeswandels
#Open #Hardware #Sustainability #Hacking #Manufacturing #Degrowth #solarpunk
