WEBVTT 00:00:00.777 --> 00:00:05.193 Today, I'm going to talk to you about sketching electronics. NOTE Paragraph 00:00:05.193 --> 00:00:10.561 I'm, among several other things, an electrical engineer, 00:00:10.561 --> 00:00:14.258 and that means that I spend a good amount of time 00:00:14.258 --> 00:00:18.632 designing and building new pieces of technology, 00:00:18.632 --> 00:00:23.172 and more specifically designing and building electronics. 00:00:23.172 --> 00:00:27.530 And what I've found is that the process of designing 00:00:27.530 --> 00:00:33.124 and building electronics is problematic in all sorts of ways. 00:00:33.124 --> 00:00:37.965 So it's a really slow process, it's really expensive, 00:00:37.965 --> 00:00:40.405 and the outcome of that process, 00:00:40.405 --> 00:00:42.821 namely electronic circuit boards, 00:00:42.821 --> 00:00:45.850 are limited in all sorts of kind of interesting ways. 00:00:45.850 --> 00:00:49.490 So they're really small, generally, they're square 00:00:49.490 --> 00:00:53.855 and flat and hard, and frankly, most of them 00:00:53.855 --> 00:00:58.168 just aren't very attractive, and so my team and I 00:00:58.168 --> 00:01:02.156 have been thinking of ways to really change and mix up 00:01:02.156 --> 00:01:06.817 the process and the outcome of designing electronics. NOTE Paragraph 00:01:06.817 --> 00:01:10.905 And so what if you could design and build electronics 00:01:10.905 --> 00:01:14.945 like this? So what if you could do it extremely quickly, 00:01:14.945 --> 00:01:20.610 extremely inexpensively, and maybe more interestingly, 00:01:20.610 --> 00:01:25.874 really fluidly and expressively and even improvisationally? 00:01:25.874 --> 00:01:29.196 Wouldn't that be so cool, and that wouldn't that open up 00:01:29.196 --> 00:01:31.644 all sorts of new possibilities? NOTE Paragraph 00:01:31.644 --> 00:01:35.028 I'm going to share with you two projects that are 00:01:35.028 --> 00:01:39.737 investigations along these lines, and we'll start with this one. 00:01:39.737 --> 00:01:45.474 (Video) Magnetic electronic pieces and ferrous paper. 00:01:45.474 --> 00:01:49.306 A conductive pen from the Lewis lab at UIUC. 00:01:49.306 --> 00:01:52.180 Sticker templates. 00:01:52.180 --> 00:01:54.740 Speed x 4. 00:02:10.259 --> 00:02:14.408 Making a switch. 00:02:22.209 --> 00:02:24.896 Music: DJ Shadow. 00:02:40.175 --> 00:02:43.492 Adding some intelligence with a microcontroller. 00:02:56.735 --> 00:03:00.234 Sketching an interface. NOTE Paragraph 00:03:04.268 --> 00:03:12.067 (Music) 00:03:13.635 --> 00:03:17.805 (Laughter) 00:03:17.805 --> 00:03:23.511 (Applause) NOTE Paragraph 00:03:23.511 --> 00:03:26.508 Pretty cool, huh? We think so. 00:03:26.508 --> 00:03:30.292 So now that we developed these tools 00:03:30.292 --> 00:03:34.030 and found these materials that let us do these things, 00:03:34.030 --> 00:03:38.198 we started to realize that, essentially, anything 00:03:38.198 --> 00:03:40.582 that we can do with paper, anything that we can do 00:03:40.582 --> 00:03:42.997 with a piece of paper and a pen 00:03:42.997 --> 00:03:45.414 we can now do with electronics. 00:03:45.414 --> 00:03:47.782 So the next project that I want to show you is kind of a 00:03:47.782 --> 00:03:51.342 deeper exploration of that possibility. 00:03:51.342 --> 00:03:55.206 And I'll kind of let it speak for itself. NOTE Paragraph 00:03:55.206 --> 00:05:25.652 (Music) 00:05:25.652 --> 00:05:31.020 (Applause) NOTE Paragraph 00:05:31.020 --> 00:05:35.820 So the next step for us in this process 00:05:35.820 --> 00:05:39.548 is now to find a way to let all of you 00:05:39.548 --> 00:05:42.444 build things like this, 00:05:42.444 --> 00:05:45.524 and so the way that we're approaching that is by 00:05:45.524 --> 00:05:48.131 teaching workshops to people where we explain 00:05:48.131 --> 00:05:51.244 how they can use these kinds of tools, and then also 00:05:51.244 --> 00:05:54.986 working to get the tools and the materials and techniques 00:05:54.986 --> 00:05:58.736 out into the real world in a variety of ways. 00:05:58.736 --> 00:06:02.320 And so sometime soon, you'll be able to play and build 00:06:02.320 --> 00:06:06.114 and sketch with electronics in this fundamentally new way. 00:06:06.114 --> 00:06:10.114 So thank you very much. (Applause)