ShrinkyCircuits: Sketching, Shrinking, and Formgiving for Electronic Circuits Joanne Lo, Eric Paulos Abstract: In this paper we describe the development of ShrinkyCircuits, a novel electronic prototyping technique that captures the flexibility of sketching and leverages properties of a common everyday plastic polymer to enable low-cost, miniature, planar, and curved, multi-layer circuit designs in minutes.
PrintScreen: Fabricating Highly Customizable Thin-film Touch-Displays
PrintScreen: Fabricating Highly Customizable Thin-film Touch-Displays Simon Olberding, Michael Wessely, Jürgen Steimle Abstract: PrintScreen is an enabling technology for digital fabrication of customized flexible displays using thin-film electroluminescence (TFEL). It enables inexpensive and rapid fabrication of highly customized displays in low volume, in a simple lab environment, print shop or even at home.
Microsoft FlexSense: A Transparent Self-Sensing Deformable Surface
We present FlexSense, a new thin-film, transparent sensing surface based on printed piezoelectric sensors, which can reconstruct complex deformations without the need for any external sensing, such as cameras. FlexSense provides a fully self-contained setup which improves mobility and is not affected from occlusions.