For grade school teachers, building educational activities around a complex topic like circuitry can often be a brain-straining exercise. And when students are too young to operate soldering irons and ...

Did you play with an electronics kit when you were a kid? If so, what age did you start? When I was about 10, my parents bought me an Elenco Electronic Playground kit for Christmas. I had a lot of fun ...

Many hackers learned about electronics over the years with home experimenter kits from Radio Shack and its ilk. Eschewing soldering for easier screw or spring based connections, they let the ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – This tinkrLAB Tuesday, tinkrLAB owner and founder Melissa Rabideau shows 6 News anchors Jorma Duran and Megan Viecelli how to make “squishy circuits.” All you need is a 9-Volt ...

AnnMarie Thomas has electrified homemade play dough, engineered musical cupcakes and sent college students flying on a trapeze. Not exactly your typical engineering professor. One of her titles at the ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Ever heard of squishy circuits? Folks from the Science Museum of Western Virginia dropped in with 7@four to show off the circuits, using conductive and insulating dough to teach ...

Squishy circuits used as wearable electrodes on human skin. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or ...