Electronic Paper & origami

This presentation show some examples of project combining electronic and paper.

Tutorial for simple paper circuit.
http://cdn.makezine.com/uploads/2014/07/papercircuits.pdf

This tutorial gives an overview of paper engineering with resources and sample projects for inspiration.

The Fine Art of Electronics
http://simonetti.media.mit.edu/~jieqi/

Folding pattern examples
http://www.korthalsaltes.com/selecion.php?sl=new

Dasha and Sanie. Experiment 1.

Through this experiment we found out that a pot is more conductive than the potato. We ended up using the potato as a stand for the LED, as it was not working.

First we create a simple circuit with the pot, a lithium battery and an LED.

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Then we added the conductive thread to the circuit .

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And finally, our circuit grew even bigger when we added a coin and a lipstick box, and used a potato as an LED stand.

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Then we created a circuit with two batteries and two different LEDs.

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Though we noticed that neither of the LEDs worked with just one battery even when we used the same LEDs. Though they both worked with two batteries.

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First Circuits

EXPERIMENTS

I worked with Amanda during this first session.

She brought an orange that wasn’t conductive enough to light up the LED. Same case for the CD I brought, because it is covered by plastic.

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Then we tried to use metals (a metallic clip, and a piece of aluminum): IMG_4901

 

It worked!

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Finally, we used these conductive fabrics:

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And it worked too!

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We wanted to light up two LEDs on the same circuit. This is our process:IMG_4909

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The first one only is turned on. To light up the second one, we needed a second battery of 3Volts.

Here’s the result:

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We also used this black paint to connect the LED to the batterie and created a switch with the copper:

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Conductive Objects Experiment

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Group members:

Asher

Lanie

Ice

 

We’ve tried two items for their conductivity: a potato and a kiwi

The potato is more conductive than the kiwi.

One of the LED lights did not light up for an unknown reason.

Copper tape + Electric paint experiment:

Copper tape circuit worked really well, meanwhile electric paint did not.

We had to wait for it to dry for it to work.

 

Week 1: Experimenting With Circuits

For the first week of class, we experimented with the conductivity of different materials by making a circuit with a small battery and LED light.

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Metallic clips work well as resistors

 

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aluminium foil

 

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We also used silver conductive fabric

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using copper tape to make a circuit

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using carbon paint to make a circuit

 

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soldering copper tape together to complete the circuit

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we made a switch over the battery turn it on and off