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This made me imagine an educational toy that allows you to make working simple circuits by drawing: You draw with markers that have electrically conductive ink, then touch the contacts of a 9-volt battery to your drawing at a certain point and a bulb or LED that you've taped to your drawing lights up. Maybe you'd supply prefabricated stickers that contain logic gates that you stick to the paper where you need a gate.


It is something there have been around for a few years: https://interestingengineering.com/what-is-conductive-ink-te...


I used to do this with a graphite pencil, battery, simple 1 transistor amplifier, and a piezo buzzer.

Lots of fun. Makes me yearn for the days of radio shack.


I picked up exactly that at a maker-faire type event a few years back. Might have been this product [1] or something similar.

  [1] https://www.lillepunkin.com/2016/12/2016-hot-holiday-gift-guide-day-13.html


As the other comment mentions, this is a thing already, but thanks for bringing it up. I'd completely forgotten about it and it seems like a good hands-on way to get a better understanding of circuits.




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