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Peter Blasser has an inspiring website detailing his experiments with paper circuits. There are a whole range of circuits he has designed that you can print out and assemble yourself. One interesting project is a series of interconnected modules called “Rollz-5”, a type of drum machine which creates organic rhythms out of geometrical forms. From his [...]

Guilherme Martins and I have been working on a sculpture composed of a series of electronic circuits mixed with paper and other materials. These objects, each equipped with a custom designed PAPERduino, will be assembled into a mobile as we explore the aesthetics of electronics. In untitled circuits each piece reacts to the others to [...]

Shi Yuan’s creative wallpaper incorporates thermochromic paint that changes color as the temperature rises. The sequence below shows how it reacts to heat coming from the radiator (via dornob). Yuan’s calendar uses this same material to make the date fade away as day turns into night.

There is a really interesting lab at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Architecture. The Centre for Architecural structures and Technology, C.A.S.T. Not only is it an acronym but also the main part of their research, forming and casting of reinforced concrete using fabric forms.

AltLab has been trying to go greener so a few of us decided to start making and using more paper arduinos. They’re based on board designs by Guilherme and use paper and cardboard instead of PCBs - we call them paperduinos :) Monica’s version is embedded on a box where she keeps the connected batteries, [...]

Using conventional screen printing techniques Dai Nippon Printing in Japan have developed a way of using light emitting inks that can be printed on a range of different surfaces, including paper and fabric. The ink works with a lumniescent get which emits bright light when a voltage is applied to it. The technique generates pixels [...]