Electronic Pop-up Cards
Jie Qi from MIT's Media Lab will be teaming up with paper engineer Colette Fu to teach you how to make your own electronic pop-up cards! This workshop covers creating pop-up cards, basic electronic switches and methods for adding light to the cards. Participants will learn how to power multiple LEDs with batteries, the mechanics of designing their own paper switches, and finally the pop-up techniques. Students will leave with several working models just in time for Valentine's Day.... glowing pop-up heart anyone? No soldering required!
Instructors
Colette Fu received her MFA in Fine Art Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology. In 2008 she received a Fulbright Fellowship to make a photographic pop up book of the 25 ethnic minorities of her mother’s hometown of Yunnan Province, China. She creates most of her work at artist residencies and has worked as a paper engineering consultant for stop animation commercials; she also freelances and teaches pop-up courses and community workshops at various art centers and institutions. You can see more of her work at www.colettefu.com.
Jie Qi is a research assistant in the High-Low Tech group at the MIT Media Lab. Her current research investigates materials, techniques and processes for blending electronics and computation with paper as a medium for creating expressive and personally meaningful technological art. Jie holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University and has worked in electronics design and fabrication at the Eyebeam Art and Technology center. See Jie's work at http://web.media.mit.edu/~jieqi/.
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