[Noisebridge-discuss] Fwd: You've probably seen this: Squishy Circuits
Josh Myer
josh at joshisanerd.com
Thu Jul 29 20:49:59 UTC 2010
I'd love to come to this playdate. Does anyone have a pair of
calipers they'd be willing to get a little doughy? It's for science!
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/jbm
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com> wrote:
> +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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