Author: Jennifer_Dick

  • Adding Simple Lighting Effects to Paper Circuits Using Microcontrollers

    Adding Simple Lighting Effects to Paper Circuits Using Microcontrollers

    Cross-posted from the NEXMAP blog. We’ve had some success making simple circuits, parallel circuits, and incorporating simple mechanical switches into our paper circuitry prototypes, so it’s time to up our game. Working with Natalie Freed, a friend and colleague of Jie’s, I learned how to use some simple tools and components to program a microcontroller that…

  • Hack Your Notebook and Illuminate Your Thinking

    Hack Your Notebook and Illuminate Your Thinking

    Cross-posted in a slightly different form at Educator Innovator. Light is a pretty amazing phenomenon. It travels faster than any anything else in the universe as far as we can tell. Nearly all life on Earth relies on light for its sustenance, whether directly or indirectly. Light is beautiful. Light is powerful. Perhaps because it…