About

“A Breadboard is a reusable solder-less device used to build temporary electronic circuits, to experiment with circuit designs and to test ideas.”

MISSION
Breadboard is a hybrid program at the University City Science Center that facilitates cross-disciplinary art exhibits, community outreach initiatives and special programs offering public access to a new generation of fabrication technology and workspace in an effort to empower individuals and convene communities around creative applications of technology.

Through a unique partnership with NextFab Studio Breadboard engages groups and communities at all levels of interest and experience. Breadboard programming combines 3-D printing technology, CAD-operated equipment such as laser cutters and milling machines with a collaborative workshop environment where artists, DIY enthusiasts, fabbers, hackers, community groups and students can share a computer station or a circuit board with business entrepreneurs, engineers, and industrial designers.

EKG
Breadboard manages a public art space popularly known as EKG (Esther Klein Gallery). EKG exhibits and projects explore intersections between art, design, science and technology. The primary aim of EKG is to examine new art and contemporary arts practices that are influenced by technology and to generate public discourse through the exhibition of creative works that comment on life and our environment in a digital age.

Breadboard and EKG programs support STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) educational initiatives and arts-based learning activities.