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Pop up paper engineering - cu boulder & centaurus
This document provides instructions for a SparkFun Electronics workshop on creating paper circuits and pop-up engineering. It introduces basic circuit concepts using copper tape on paper and light emitting diodes. It then explains how to construct different types of pop-ups cuts and uses for paper engineering. The document concludes by thanking contributors and providing resources for templates.
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- 1. SparkFun Electronics: Pop-up PaperEngineering http://bit.ly/CentaurusPaperEng Brian Huang Education Engineer Angela Sheehan Education Outreach Linz Craig Education Outreach
- 2. About us... SparkFun Electronics Boulder,CO ● Founded in 2003 by Nathan Seidle ● Focus in shortcuts to engineering design ● Design / Develop Electronics for Building, Tinkering, Making ● Rooted in Open Source Hardware Community
- 3. Today You will learnwhat makes a circuit work and apply this to create/make something novel and unique. You will apply the engineering design process you’ve practiced in school on today’s design task.
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- 5. Light Emitting Diodes(LEDs) LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) are simple, low-cost semiconductor devices that produce light when voltage is applied in the correct polarity.
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- 7. Using Copper Tapeon Paper
- 8. Copper Tape isConductive ...but sticky stuff isn’t!!! Try to use one continuous piece of tape for each section (grey parts). Fold, crease through each corner. Or - make sure shiny part is touching shiny.
- 9. Adhesive is non-conductive… MakingCorners with one piece of tape FOLD DIAGONAL TO MAKE A CORNER FOLD FOLD FORWARD to CREASE (Sticky side exposed) DONE! Try to keep the piece of tape continuous across corners and through-out the circuit.
- 10. But, what aboutwhen you run out of tape?? Joining Traces Overlap Shiny-side to Shinyside BREAK FOLD BACK JOINING PIECE FOLD 1/2 AGAIN Joining by touching the SHINY-SIDE to the SHINY-SIDE of each section. Secure with Clear Tape.
- 11. A few definitions... Wesaid copper tape is conductive, but the sticky stuff is not. Define the word conductive. The flap is down, and shiny is touching shiny. This is called a closed circuit.
- 12. And a fewmore... This is called an open-circuit. Define “opencircuit” The flap is up.
- 13. A few templateideas Push button Drawings and designs courtesy of Jie Qi at MIT Media Lab: http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=2505
- 14. A few templateideas Pull-Tab Switch Drawings and designs courtesy of Jie Qi at MIT Media Lab: http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=2505
- 15. How else canyou make a switch?
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- 17. Draw, sketch, makesomething unique! Your turn...
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- 19. Design Process Planning…. Sketch, write,doodle… think about the following: •WHO IS IT FOR? •WHAT SHOULD IT DO? •WHAT SHOULD IT LOOK LIKE?
- 20. Phase II --Adding pop-up Paper Engineering to Paper Circuits
- 21. Pop-up Cuts V-Mouth Cut Placea dot near the center of the new rectangle. Draw a perpendicular line to the folded edge of the cardstock. Folded Edge
- 22. Pop-up Cuts V-Mouth Cut Cutalong the line to the dot. Folded Edge
- 23. Pop-up Cuts V-Mouth Cut Foldthe right-hand side to form a triangular flap and crease. Flip the card over and crease the triangle over on the other side as well.
- 24. Pop-up Cuts V-Mouth Cut Repeatfor the left flap. Fold the lefthand side to form a triangular flap and crease. Flip the card over and crease the triangle over on the other side.
- 25. Opening the Mouth Openthe card up like a tent. Using your thumb or fingers, push the top triangle and bottom triangle through to the inside.
- 26. Finally Close the cardand press firmly. Re-open to work the mouth-action.
- 27. Variations? What otherideas do you have? Add LEDs, switches, push buttons... Draw a jagged line instead of a straight one and you have a mouth with teeth! Concepts, images, and credit to Robert Sabuda: http://wp.robertsabuda.com/how-to-make-a-v-fold-mouth-pop-up/
- 28. Resources, Credits, andThank yous Thank you to Jie Qi and the High-Low Tech Lab at MIT for the concepts, designs, and artwork for these paper circuits. Thank you to Robert Sabuda for his pivotal work in pop-up books and pop-up art. Full-scale templates can be downloaded as a PowerPoint file here. If you need a PDF, please e-mail me at brian. huang@sparkfun.com
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- 30. Thanks! http://bit.ly/CentaurusPaperEng Brian Huang Education Engineer Angela Sheehan Education Outreach email:education@sparkfun.com Linz Craig Education Outreach