According to Leah Buechley, the traditional way of building and designing electronics is "a really slow process, it's really expensive, and... most of them just aren't very attractive." Including electronics in the crafting process allows us to make them quicker, less expensive, and more interesting and expressive (Buechley, November 2012).
"Crafting technology encourages designers, engineers, and craftspeople to work with materials like wood, textiles, and paper that are uncommon in today’s electronic devices" (Buechley and Wilson, 2012). I know I personally have very little interest in building a circut board, but I love the idea of creating paper circuts or e-textiles. Introducing our students to electronics through these innovated creations could be the inspiration they need to really start digging deep into electronics and coding.
The paper written by Buechley and Wilson (2012), discusses a few ways to use technology while crafting that may interest our students: carving, sewing, painting, and drawing.
"By expanding and diversifying the processes that are used to build electronics, we naturally expand and diversify the electronics that are created and the communities of people who build them" (Buechley and Wilson, 2012). We hear alot about coding for girls to encourage women to enter the field of engineering, imagine what we could do if we started pairing that with making flashy clothing or electronic paintings.
- Carving: Wood is first covered in a layer of conductive material, and then that conductive material is selectively removed to create the desired connections.
- Sewing: Materials like conductive thread, conductive fabric, and conductive fibers enable students to craft soft connectors, inputs, and outputs.
- Painting & Drawing: Paints and inks with different electrical characteristics enable students to create electronics by painting and drawing. Other electronic components can be attached to painted connectors with glue and paint to form full-fledged circuits.
"By expanding and diversifying the processes that are used to build electronics, we naturally expand and diversify the electronics that are created and the communities of people who build them" (Buechley and Wilson, 2012). We hear alot about coding for girls to encourage women to enter the field of engineering, imagine what we could do if we started pairing that with making flashy clothing or electronic paintings.
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Resources:
Buechley, L. and Perner-Wilson, H. 2012. Crafting technologies: Reimagining the processes, materials, and cultures of electronics. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 19, 3, Article 21 (October 2012), 21 pages. DOI = 10.1145/2362364.2362369 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2362364.2362369
http://lizastark.com/compcraftfall2016/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/a21-buechley_hannah.pdf
Buechley, L. [TED]. (2012, November 15). Leah Buechley: How to "sketch" with electronics [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTBp0Z5GPeI
Buechley, L. and Perner-Wilson, H. 2012. Crafting technologies: Reimagining the processes, materials, and cultures of electronics. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 19, 3, Article 21 (October 2012), 21 pages. DOI = 10.1145/2362364.2362369 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2362364.2362369
http://lizastark.com/compcraftfall2016/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/a21-buechley_hannah.pdf
Buechley, L. [TED]. (2012, November 15). Leah Buechley: How to "sketch" with electronics [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTBp0Z5GPeI
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