Microcontrollers as material: Crafting circuits with paper, conductive ink, electronic components, and an "untoolkit"

TEI 2013 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 83-90

  Mellis, David A ^a   Jacoby, Sam ^a   Buechley, Leah ^a   Perner Wilson, Hannah ^a   Qi, Jie ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

Arduino; Conductive ink; Craft; Microcontrollers; Paper; Toolkits

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; ARDUINO; CONDUCTIVE INK; CRAFT; CRAFT AND TECHNOLOGIES; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; MATERIALS AND PROCESS; TOOLKITS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; MICROCONTROLLERS; PAPER;

CONTROLLERS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMING; CONTROLLERS; ELECTRIC CIRCUITS; INK; PAPER;

EID: 84876848582     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2460625.2460638     Document Type: Conference Paper

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