Bare Conductive Interactive Workshop Pack
The Interactive Workshop Pack is a great way to get a group of students started with design and technology projects. It comes with everything you need to run three different workshop activities. Create musical instruments, game controllers, and interactive posters using Electric Paint and printed sensors and use the Arduino IDE to program the Touch Board.
Grades: 6+
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Get to Know:
The Interactive Workshop Pack includes all the tools you need to run three different workshop activities introducing everything from painting sensors with Electric Paint to programming the Touch Board using the Arduino programming language. Each project comes with complete instructions and one workshop pack can be run with up to 25 participants.
Once you’ve mastered these three projects, you can go on to modify the activities to increase complexity by designing custom instruments, game controllers, or interactive surfaces. The kit does not require any soldering and is recommended both for beginners and advanced users looking for a creative workshop activity. With extensive libraries already available, you can select from existing code examples or modify and program your own interactions.
With Touch Boards, Electric Paint, printed sensors, mini speakers, and many more components, you’ll have all the tools required for the three projects and much more. The full-color guidebook (included) contains step-by-step instructions for completing each activity and is supported with online tutorials, full code examples, and troubleshooting tips in case something goes wrong. These fun 30-60 minute activities require no previous programming or electronics experience and will appeal equally to participants from engineering and design backgrounds.
Project 1: Play music with paper. Use the printed instruments sensors to create an MIDI paper orchestra. Participants connect their Touch Boards to printed sensors, select sounds, and play a tune. Take it to the next level by designing your own instruments.
Project 2: Design game controllers. Bare Conductive has created a game and you can design the game controllers! Use Electric Paint to paint interfaces and get playing. For a more advanced workshop, why not modify the code and create your own rules?
Project 3: Make Interactive Posters. Make your presentations interactive. Combine the printed sensors with the Touch Board, load or record your own sounds, and let your posters do the talking!
What's in the Box:
- 5 Touch Boards
- 4 Electric Paint 50ml Jars
- 5 Electric Paint 10ml Tubes
- 6 Printed Sensors
- 6 Instrument Sensors
- 1 Guidebook
- 1 Sheet of Carbon Dots
- 2 USB Hubs
- 5 Mini Speakers
- 5 MicroSD Cards
- 5 MicroSD Card Readers
- 5 Micro USB Cables
- 50 Alligator Clips
- 60 Sticky Tabs
- 6 Velcro Stickers
Electric Paint is a nontoxic, water based, water soluble, electrically conductive paint. It can be used in circuits as a painted resistor element, a capacitive electrode, or function as a conductor in designs that can tolerate high resistivity. It is intended for applications with circuits using low DC voltages at low currents. Electric Paint adheres to a wide variety of substrates and can be applied using screen printing equipment. Its major benefits include a low cost, solubility in water, and good screen life. It is black in color and can be painted over with any material compatible with a water-based paint.
Electric Paint Technical Data Sheet
Electric Paint Application Notes
Electric Paint Safety Data Sheet
The Touch Board is a microcontroller board with dedicated capacitive touch and MP3 decoder ICs. It has a headphone socket and micro SD card holder (for file storage) as well as 12 capacitive touch electrodes. It is based around the ATmega32U4 and runs
at 16MHz from 5V. It has a micro USB connector, a JST connector for an external lithium polymer (LiPo) cell, a power switch, and a reset button.
It is similar to the Arduino Leonardo board and can be programmed using the Arduino IDE. The ATmega32U4 can appear to a connected computer as a mouse or a keyboard, (HID) serial port (CDC), or a USB MIDI device.
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