Year 13 Design Class

Recently, I had the wonderful chance to work with the year 13 design students.  Last term, Sarah Coursey started this class off with an introductory course on papertronics.  The girls revisited their understanding of basic electrical circuits and created some simple switches and lighted circuits using paper as their base. 

Last week I followed up with some e-textiles.  The stick on LED lights from papertronics were replaced with light emitting diodes, the copper tape which conducts the electrical current was replaced with electronic thread and we used metal domes as our switch.  Both of these sessions have opened up the possibilities of adding some electronics into student design work.  Keen students may also want to extend on this, by adding light, touch, and sound sensors.  Further to this, are programmable sewable circuits such as the Gemma, and LilyPad.

RESOURCES:


Bridget McKendry Christchurch FabLab http://www.fablabchch.org.nz

Nice Gear https://nicegear.co.nz

Aliexpress http://www.aliexpress.com

Jaycar electronics http://www.jaycar.co.nz