I hope you are enjoying your weekend and get some time to get crafty. Today I wanted to share a pretty simple card. I have a trick I wanted to share. It will help when you don’t have much space to put your copper tape without having it show. Read along and I will show […]
Lava Land
Hello crafty friends, today I want to show you this sweet dinosaur and lava land light up card. The images are from Clearly Besotted stamps. From the moment on I saw them, I wanted to create a light up card. Finally, after Christmas and a little stressful time, I managed to do this and it […]
5 Ways to Make a Paper Battery Holder
Every circuit needs a power supply to turn on, such as a coin cell battery. These batteries are great because they’re small, flat and thus integrate nicely with paper. Here are five simple paper battery holder tutorials for you to try out! 1. Foam Tape Battery Holder Tutorial This battery holder is super thin and […]
Craft a Holiday Greeting with Love to Code
Happy holidays from team Chibi! Our intern, Shicheng Lim (@caligomartia on Instagram), designed a fun color-in, light-up holiday card template activity so you can craft your own holiday greeting using Love to Code! Anyone with the Love to Code Starter Kit will have the electronic parts to do this project. If you want to purchase the […]
Jolly Holiday Card
Hello, Kelly Szafron here with a card made with fun stamps from Reverse Confetti and a red LED from Chibitronics. I made a slider to switch on Rudolph’s nose using instructions from Eikos post here. I really enjoyed how simple it was to make this slider switch. I made my card by stamping my images […]
Light Up Christmas Fairy Card
Hi Everyone! This is Tiffany and I’m here on the Chibitronics blog today. I have a pretty simple interactive card featuring a Christmas fairy and candle that lights up. The stamp set I am using today is from SSS Magical Wishes stamp set and it is the perfect stamp set to use with Chibitronics LED […]
Chibitronics and Sweet Stamp Shop Collaboration, Day 5
Good morning! This week we’re excited to collaborate with Sweet Stamp Shop and both design teams will be sharing inspiration all week long! And what’s a collaboration without a giveaway? 😉 One lucky commenter on our blog will win a Chibitronics starter kit so make sure to leave a comment each day for the most […]
kitty friends -a circle spinner light up card
Hi Chibitronics friends! This is Wei Wei here today and I would like to share a circle spinner light up card I created using some LED stickers and Honey Bees stamp.
ISTE 2017
We just got back from a busy week at ISTE. We had a great time meeting new and old friends and had a chance to share our new Love to Code kit: the Chibi Chip and Chibi Scope! We hosted a workshop “STEAM-Based Learning and Self-Expression with Chibitronics” with Chibitronics cofounder Jie Qi and rockstar […]
Surrealist Paper Illustrations
Objective: Students will learn the ideas and concepts behind the Surrealist art movement while creating paper illustrations that incorporate light-up Chibitronics circuit stickers. Created by: Kristin Osiecki. Learn more about Kristin in our Meet the Maker series. Click here for full lesson plan: Surrealism meets Circuits. Lesson Plan Summary: Topics: Surrealism, illustration, drawing, elements and […]
Our First ISTE Appearance
In late June, we attended our first ISTE conference in Denver, Colorado! We had applied for and had gotten into the startup expo, a pavilion with 32 start-up companies in ed-tech. We had a little booth, which we lit up and met with lots of great educators. It was nice to see old friends. Thanks […]
Meet the Maker: Tracie Hightower
We were lucky enough to catch up with Tracie Hightower from Cranbook Schools at ISTE. Tracie is the Upper School Librarian/Education Technologist at Cranbook, and has converted part of the library into a MakerSpace. Tracie’s goal is to expose her students to different materials in order to inspire curiosity, learning and creativity. 1. What is […]