Tag Archives: copper tape
17Oct/123 comments
Experimenting with Paper Speakers
Posted by Ryan
One of the demos that the high school explainers are currently developing on the floor involves making homemade speakers out of a a small cup, copper wire and a magnet. Last week, Chas wanted to find out if we could … Continue reading
Tagged as: copper tape, experiments, high low tech, jie qi, magnets, paper circuits, paper speakers, sound, speakers
21Sep/123 comments
Paper Circuit Wedding Card
Posted by Ryan
One of the things that I am most enjoying about sharing Jie Qi’s paper circuit activity is how people can quickly go from making a super basic circuit to coming up with a really creative and personalized idea. Today one … Continue reading
20Sep/12No comments
Paper Cicuits with the FT Explainers
Posted by Ryan
Each year we get the chance to host the incoming group of field trip explainers for a workshop in the learning studio as part of their first two weeks of training. This year, because of the impending move, the group … Continue reading
28Jul/11No comments
Pop-Up Prototypes
Posted by Ryan
In the Learning Studio we’ve been doing some prototyping and experimenting with making pop-up books. As a first introduction to paper folding a few months back, Paul S. showed us some basic techniques and since then we’ve been looking at … Continue reading
Tagged as: circuits, copper tape, LEDs, musical bench, oscylinderscope, pop up, popup, prototypes, switches
