Celebrating 40 Years of Innovation
Chibitronics recently participated in the 40th Anniversary celebration of the MIT Media Lab, commemorating four decades of imagination, invention, and discovery. The celebration had over 700 attendees from the MIT Media Lab community, including our own Jie Qi!
For those who may not know, the MIT Media Lab holds an important place in the origin story of Chibitronics. It was there that our CEO Jie Qi’s early explorations combining paper crafts with electronics began. In other words, the MIT Media Lab was the incubator and birthplace of Circuit Stickers and Chibitronics!
During the visit to her alma mater, Jie got to meet with the MIT Museum Store, and was excited to see an inspiring assortment of our products displayed there.
She also toured the MIT Maker Hub, a potential location for future Chibitronics workshops!
As part of the festivities, members of the Chibitronics team were honored to create a custom paper circuit kit that went out to 500 alumni and current members of the Media Lab network!
The kit invites creators to color in and decorate an illustration of the MIT Media Lab’s new building, drawn by Labber Mark Feldmeier.
When the lights illuminate, they reveal fun illustrations hidden in the windows of the building. Each kit also contains a pack of custom colored pencils, a variety of fun Media Lab and MIT themed graphics, and an assortment of Chibitronics supplies.
Alumni were then invited to personalize (color and collage) and frame their illuminated models!
If you did not get a kit, and you want to create your own version of this project, we’ve got you covered! To print, collage, and illuminate your own model of the MIT Media Lab, using design files on our project webpage, please visit go.chibitronics.com/ml40.
There, you’ll find the complete supply list, free downloads, and a link to the project in Circuit Sketcher (our browser based circuit design software) if you would like to digitally remix the design!
Many thanks to Mark Feldmeier, Kristin Osiecki, and Jie Qi, who made this DIY Kit project possible.