Interactive Lights – SCOPES-DF
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Lesson Details

Subjects*
Arts, Engineering
Age Ranges*
11-14
Fab Tools*
electronics, conductive paint
Standards
Fab-Electronics.2
Author
Studio 5
Additional Contributors
Ilaria La Manna, Mohammed Mohammed

Author

Studio 5
Studio 5
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In line with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology’s Digital Youth Strategy, STUDIO 5 is mainly aimed at nurturing youth as digital learners by sharpening their 21st century learning skills, as they develop in an all-pervasive digital environment. In… Read More

Summary

In this workshop, participants are going to learn how to create interactive lights using smart materials and a pre-programmed electrical board that has different functionalities installed in it, participants are going to use the conductive paint as a replacement of wires as well as touch and proximity sensors, the lamps that the participants are going to create are going to be fabricated using paper.

What You'll Need

1.      Laptops.

2.      Electrical paint lamp kit.

3.      Presentation.

Lesson Materials

The Instructions

Presentation:

Presentation:

1- Who are we and what we do in Studio 56.

2- Open Question: What are we going to do today?

3- What are smart materials?

•      Show video about smart materials.

4- What is conductive paint.

5- Open Question: what is electricity?

6- What is an electrical circuit?

•      Show video about electrical circuits.

7- What are the basic components of an electrical circuit?

8- Can wires be replaced in an electrical circuit?

•      Explain how wires can be replaced in an electrical circuit.

9- non-smart materials vs smart materials.

10- Explain the light up board.

11- Explain the first activity step by step.

12- Show a video of how a proximity sensor works.

13- Explain the second activity step by step.

Prototype:

1- Open the kit and remove the components and instructions of each activity from it.

2- Paint on activity 1 instructions paper as mentioned in the instruction using the conductive paint.

3- wait for the conductive paint to dry.

4- while waiting for the paint to dry in activity 1, start painting in activity 2 instruction paper.

5- After the paint dries in activity 1 install the light up board on the instructions paper as mentioned.

6- Cold solder the light up board in activity 1 using the conductive paint.

7- Wait for the cold solder to dry in activity 1.

8- Connect the light up board to the laptop.

9- test to see if the prototype is working as intended.

10- Use the lamp cover instruction in activity 1 to attach it to the lamp prototype.

11- test the full prototype.

12- clean the light up board from the conductive paint.

13- install the light up board to activity 2.