Alex Tait

Alex makes electronics that work and electronics that mean something. An electrical engineer based in Brooklyn, he has been designing circuit boards for twenty years and now makes interactive light works and electronic instruments, including Huey, shown at ART150 in August 2026. He develops kicad-sandwiches, open-source software for building flat, stacked circuit boards that need no enclosure, and leads recurring workshops on PCB artwork and on running local language models. Alex has a decade of experience in photonic hardware research, specifically cryogenic silicon photonics and neuromorphic computing. He was an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Queen's University for three years, where he led a funded research group and advised its graduate students. He taught Electric Circuits and designed its soldering lab around a custom board; more than 1,500 students have now soldered one. He also built Unconventional Computing, a project-based graduate seminar about three generations of computing architecture and the ecosystems that produced them.

Projects

circuits, workshops, and apps