[Noisebridge-discuss] Fwd: You've probably seen this: Squishy Circuits

jim jim at well.com
Thu Jul 29 18:37:09 UTC 2010


   i use the term "study group" for a scheduled 
get-together that has no necessary leader. one 
of my more favorite rubrics is "the teacher 
learns the most," the implication of which is 
that the structure should promote that each 
participant does some teaching and leading. 




On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 11:26 -0700, Michael Shiloh wrote:
> I don't have the bandwidth to organize a workshop, but please, someone 
> pull this together. We need to see where this can be taken.
> 
> (By workshop I mean something where less is taught, because there is no 
> clear expert amongst us, and more is learned and discovered by 
> experimentation as a group. Is there a name for this activity?)
> 
> On 07/29/2010 11:04 AM, Jonathan Foote wrote:
> > Interesting!
> >
> > Wonder if you could make something more permanent by mixing metallic
> > or otherwise conductive particles into putty or modeling clay. (Water
> > based doughs will lose conductivity when they dry out). There's even
> > that clay stuff you can fire in an oven.
> >
> > You should absolutely be able to make a capacitor using a jelly roll
> > technique. If you can keep the layers separate, you could use EMSL's
> > fractal dough technique to get a large surface area (and thus large
> > capacitance).. Hmmm, careful, don't want to actually come up with
> > something useful!
> > http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/fimofractals
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Michael Shiloh
> > <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >> I'd never heard of this until now. Conductive dough, insulating dough:
> >>
> >> http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/apthomas/SquishyCircuits/HOMEPAGE.htm
> >>
> >> Workshop anyone?
> >>
> >>
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