Crafting Colorful Circuit Board Jewelry
What is Circuit Breaker Labs?
We’re a small, handcrafted-in-America company that creates smart jewelry using circuit boards. The name is a combination of what we do (break circuits) and founder Amanda’s history (as a lab chemist). Our mission is to design science-inspired products that adorn, educate, and empower. Circuit Breaker Labs is a company that is dedicated to handcrafting high quality work, offering exceptional customer service, and inspiring curiosity.

It started over ten years ago in a tiny apartment room while trying to get through college. I always had a knack for making things, especially jewelry, and was up to the task when my brother challenged me to make something from an old circuit board he had found. I’ve long since graduated, and transformed that initial project into a career making circuit board jewelry.

Our work takes circuit boards out of their normal context in computers and televisions, and puts them under a lens of jewelry and other wearable products. Circuit boards are beautiful! We hope to share that beauty with you in a way that also allows you to share it through personal adornment.

What is our new project?
A lot of our time is spent looking for circuit boards in fun colors. We’ve collected boards in a rainbow of colors, plus a few in between like mint green and golden yellow. However, we’ve never seen a pink circuit board! Or light blue! We’ve often been asked to make pink heart necklaces and we’ve never been able to deliver because they don’t exist.

We want to change that and be able to offer jewelry in just about any color you could want. We’re going to start with pink and light blue, the most commonly requested colors.

How can you help?
Your assistance will help in many ways! We are looking to raise $1,100 on Kickstarter to be able to produce pink and light blue jewelry. Your donation will go to a number of things:
- Circuit Board Design — We need a design that the manufacturers can use (this stage is almost complete and we need to pay the designer)
- PCB Manufacturing — They will produce circuit boards for us
- Materials — Each piece of jewelry is made from several materials and finished with a beautiful layer of epoxy resin
To contribute to our project (and select from a number of awesome rewards), find out more: Crafting Colorful Circuit Board Jewelry