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The first Open Science Summit will be held this year at the Berkeley International House (I-house) in Berkeley, California on July 29-31. Fora TV will stream the Summit at http://fora.tv/live/open_science/open_science_summit_2010 What could be more important that optimizing the functioning of our science + technology paradigm for a 21st century Open Knowledge Economy? More than 40 speakers from across [...]

I keep thinking that even though we tend to use conductive fabric and other soft circuits materials mostly for wearables and such, there has to be much more to it than that. Ayman’s drumsticks are a great of example of other interesting applications for these materials. He made them for his iPad iSteelPan application, but [...]

I’ve learned that there are 3 main challenges in working with soft circuits. The first one is to create circuitry with materials that are almost always completely exposed: a lot of thought goes into the layout of the circuit to not only avoid accidental shorts during normal wear, but also to avoid crisscrosses between conductive [...]