Paper prototyping for paper-based circuitry
An assemblage of reused cardboard, small EL sheets and conductive ink, gives shape to this rapid EL postcard prototype, in which 2 breast-shaped cutouts, upon user activation, close a circuit that makes each EL stamp glow. Pretty simple.
After an experimental first round of EL animal cards, time has come for Zazaziza to move on, aiming to reach new pastures of a more interactive kind. The convergence of paper engineering, origami and electronics is one of the most promising fields in contemporary interaction design, at least according to some internal Zazaziza memos.
We are at the baby steps stage, more prototypes and explorations to come.
Aug 1 2007 6:35 am
[…] The area of paper based computation is already rich concept wise, like this famous 2000 article in Wired about the effects of paper computer. Most recently, researchers such as marcelo coelho in MIT Medialab in Boston or Alejandro Zamudio at Zazaziza experimental base in Bogotá are exploring this field at the material level and try to solve this conjecture: how on earth can we do a club sandwich with paper, sensors and batteries… […]