We are excited to announce that Chibitronics now carries reed switches, which are useful for creating surprising special effects in your paper circuit projects! What’s a Reed Switch? A reed switch is a small electrical component containing two thin fibers that are highly susceptible to magnetization. In the most common type of reed switch, called […]
NEW PRODUCT: Craft with Light Kits!
We are excited to announce our new Craft with Light Kits designed just for crafters and makers! The kits come in White for white LEDs and Color for color LEDs. With this kit, we’ve put together all the basic materials you need to make fun paper circuit projects: 6 LED circuit stickers White kit: 6 […]
Introducing the Chibitronics Paper Circuits STEAM Educator’s Guide
We have worked with hundreds of educators around the world who have incorporated Chibitronics into their teaching, but we have never before had an all-in-one resource to help them get started. Enter…the Paper Circuits STEAM Educator’s Guide! This 185-page guide was written with both K-12 and informal educators in mind. It includes 19 arts-integrated lesson […]
Join us for Pathfinders Summer 2022 – Paper Circuits and Coding Across the Curriculum
K-12 US public school teachers! Chibitronics is excited to join Infosys Foundation’s virtual #InfyPathfinders Summer Institute, exclusively at Infosys.org/PathfindersOnline. Use this link to create a free account today to register for our course PAPER CIRCUITS AND CODING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM. Apply now for and choose one of summer’s 7-week courses: Every Wednesday, 7:00 PM – 9:30 […]
Ambassadors Barbara Liedahl and Chris Awad at FETC 2022
“This is what I remember: teachers were leaning forward as we shared out…” – Barbara Liedahl <The Conference> FETC, the annual Future of Education and Technology conference, started more than 40 years ago, has grown into one of the must-attend, big-tent meetups for teacher and administrators, instructional technologists, and education policy and thought leaders. This […]
Lessons from a National Lab: Building a Fully Remote STEM Program
< Berkeley Lab’s SAGE Camp Summer 2021 > In spring of 2021, the K12 group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) – one of the first research institutions in the network of 17 national labs managed by the Dept. of Energy – began planning for a second, pandemic-ready, online-only program for its annual summer camp, […]
Creative Paper Circuits Series – Fall Session!
Chibitronics’ Paper Circuits Online Series is back again! We have created a 7-part series that takes you from lighting up your first drawing to adding code to your artwork and making your art interactive! Find out more about each session and how to register below. Session Dates: September 15 – October 27, 2021Session Times: Wednesdays […]
Announcing Our First Circuit Sketchbook Art Contest Winners!
Congratulations to Alexa, 9, and Taia, 12, on winning our first Circuit Sketchbook Art Contest! Keep scrolling to see their entries and find out how you can enter the next one. Alexa, 9 – Acorn’s Adventures“I was interested in acorns and comics. I wanted to make up an original story. I like characters with a […]
Chibitronics Monthly Circuit Sketchbook Art Contest
Show us your #circuitsketchbook! Our Art Contest will now be monthly! Complete all 5 chapters of our Circuit Sticker Sketchbook and share them with us by the end of each month for the chance to win a Love to Code Creative Coding Kit and be featured in our Sketchbook Gallery. The winner will be announced […]
2021 CSTA Virtual Conference
Computer Science teachers join us at the 2021 CSTA Annual Conference, July 14-16, 2021! Register by July 9, 2021 11:59 PM. Our Education team and our ambassadors will be presenting at two sessions.July 14, 1:30pm – 2:30pm ETVirtual Design Tools for Paper Circuits and Creative Coding Susan Brown and Natalie Freed July 15, 1:45pm – 2:30pm […]
Paper Circuits Online Series is Back! June 2 to July 14
Our Paper Circuits Online Series is back! We have created Eventbrite classes that provide 7 evenings that take you from lighting up your first drawing to adding code to your artwork and making your art interactive! Session Dates: June 2 – July 14, 2021Session Times: Wednesdays from 7pm to 8pm eastern Event Schedule: Part 1: […]
Circuit Sketchbook Art Contest
Show us your #circuitsketchbook! Complete all 5 chapters of our Circuit Sticker Sketchbook and share them with us by 5PM Pacific time on June 14, 2021 for a chance to win 1 of 10 Love to Code Creative Coding Kits and be featured in our Sketchbook Gallery. Winners will be announced on July 1, 2021. […]