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

[Rachel McConnell]

+1

I will come to conductive dough 'playshop'!

Rachel

jim wrote:
>    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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