Video Tutorial Introduction: To celebrate #PopUpTober and #LightUpPopUpTober, I’m sharing a fun way to combine light with an engaging pop-up mechanism, to create a “smore-themed” pop-up spread! This type of mechanism has a lot of visual interest, with arms that move and rotate whenever a card is opened. The Double Pivot mechanism, found on page […]
Make 4 Simple Pop-Ups Glow With Chibitronics LEDs
Research a Critter: Tell Its Story with Pop-Ups and Paper Circuits Engage your students with a fun and educational project that combines science, technology, art, and engineering! This blog post will show you a way to combine paper circuits with a series of pop-up foundation shapes. Individually, each mechanism may be customized to stand alone. […]
Chibitronics Lights Up #PopUpTober 2024!
Find #PopUpTober Information & Inspiration For a quick reference, please visit our #LightUpPopUpTober resource page, which we’ll be updating throughout the months of September and October. There, you’ll find the daily prompts, tutorials, templates, and plenty of light-up pop-up inspiration to help you get started with our own creations! What is #PopUpTober? This fall, Chibitronics […]
Meet the Maker: Keith Allen
Since 2019, author-illustrator Keith Allen has been working behind the scenes to create one of the most eagerly anticipated, instantly recognizable, Instagram challenges of the paper crafting world—#PopUpTober. In the five years that have followed, his highly anticipated list of 31 prompts—one for each day of the month of October—have brought together a mix of […]
Light-up a Pop-Up Bird with Chibitronics Sticker LEDs
Light Takes Flight This project takes inspiration from a bird model featured in Duncan Birmingham’s book, Pop-Up Design and Paper Mechanics: How to Make Folding Paper Sculpture, which is a fabulous resource! In this tutorial, I’ll show you a way to light up the wings of a pop-up bird using Chibitronics sticker LEDs. My bird […]