How to Draw Your Own Circuits

Paper computing may be the way of the future, says Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab assistant professor Leah Buechley. She and her team recently presented their latest innovation, a kit for sketching and drawing circuits on a very special type of paper, using a very special pen.

The kit contains a few magnetic electronic pieces, some ferrous paper, and a conductive pen especially designed by the Lewis Lab at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champagne (UIUC). Together, these components can be used to simply draw functional circuits, Technology Review reports.

This video shows some of the things that you can do with this kit, including the creation of a simple electric circuit. The cool thing about it all is that multiple components can be added and routed, depending on your specific needs.

Towards the end of the clip, you can see a very neat way of applying all the principles on which this system is built. Who knows, maybe the next innovation in entertainment and art will come from an artist using this kit.