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Creating Electronics from Paper

3/20/2015

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While it may sound a little strange to consider paper a high tech material, it's definitely time for us to be imagining creative new ways of doing things.

Creative technologist, Coralie Gourguechon conducts workshops exploring the intersection between paper crafts and electronics.
Craft education tends to focus on tools and skills, largely leaving it up to the maker to decide what he or she constructs from there. In contrast, electronics education tends to use modular toolkits and building blocks, expecting users to keep to a predecided script. Paper craft circuits can make learning around electronics more appealing and accessible, and challenge cultural expectations around how electronics should behave.
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James and his daughter experiment with a paper keyboard - drawing an electronic circuit with a pencil at the Fredericton Makerspace.
This type of cross-discipline experimentation is the foundation for developing the critical thinking skills that lead to innovative new products & technologies. 'Learning how to learn' is an essential skill younger generations will need to live in an increasingly complex world.
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