Squishy circuits

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“Making play-dough creatures is fun, but making them with light-up eyes and moving parts is even more enjoyable. We thought it would be better still if we could make the circuitry out of the dough itself!” from Make

Moving Around in Istanbul

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I hacked an old journal of mine which had a lot of addresses and directions in it as well as writing and poems. I combined the addresses with a picture I took of the city as an artifact of that time in my life.

Hacking a Streetcar

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When I saw that July 9 was Hack your Notebook day, I immediately saw the potential. Unfortunately the process of tracking down the bits and pieces needed to actually hack the notebook took longer than anticipated, so that project wasn’t completed for THE DAY. Eventually I was able to use two 3V coin batteries, some conductive copper tape and a couple of LED lights to animate a picture of a San Francisco streetcar that I had pasted into a notebook kept during a trip to California a couple of years ago.