paper + electronics tutorials
LED Dragon Kite by Jie Qi Jie Qi, from MIT’s High-Low Tech group, posted a couple really nice tutorials on how to combine paper, electronics and smart materials to create beautiful objects: LED Dragon...
View Articlethe resistor jeltone :: an edible toy piano
The Resistor JelTone is an edible toy piano created by NYC Resistor members Ranjit Bhatnagar, Astrida Valigorsky, Mimi Hui and myself for the Jello Mold Competition. As part of our experiments we...
View Articlehow to make conductive ink
University of Illinois researchers explain how they make their conductive ink on this step-by-step tutorial. (via Boing Boing)
View Articlehackerspace-made conductive ink
Jordan Bunker from Pumping Station: One has been making his own conductive ink based on a paper written by researchers at the UIUC Materials Research Laboratory. This technique uses easily obtainable...
View Articlemore DIY conductive inks
A few months ago, Jordan Bunker from the hackerspace Pumping Station: One shared his experiments and simple recipe for a DIY conductive ink. Now, Nick Vermeer from the hackerspace NYC Resistor,...
View Articlefresh paint :: a magnetic + conductive ink LED display
A few months ago I visited Pumping Station: One where I met William McShane and saw his magnetic + conductive paint LED display. On the video above William explains how it works. This was recorded...
View Articleliquidity :: oil + condutive ink lamps
Another beautiful piece by Patrick Stevenson Keating via the Bare Conductive website: For the 2012 Milan Furniture Fair, Patrick Stevenson-Keating put together some incredible lamps using Bare Paint...
View Articletransparent circuit boards
In this video Becky Stern from Adafruit shows how to make a simple circuit on a transparent sheet of plastic coated with indium tin oxide.
View Articleplaying with food
Playing With Food is fun video by Manuela Donoso, Yucef Merhi, and Michelle Boisson made for ITP’s Tech Crafts class. The assignment was to test the capacitive properties of food by wiring edibles to...
View Articlestretch sensor synthesizer
Luisa Pereira and Manuela Donoso collaborated on this musical instrument made of elastics and light. On the first version they used regular elastics coated with conductive ink and on the final version...
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