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

Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 29 21:31:15 UTC 2010


This should be well photographed. There will be much interest in the 
results.

I'm willing to contribute a scope probe that can get doughy. For 
science, of course.

On 07/29/2010 01:49 PM, Josh Myer wrote:
> 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!
> --
> /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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