CEDAR RAPIDS — Madison Strickland, 13, colored a cardboard cutout of an electric guitar hot pink, wiring it with conductive copper tape and programming musical sounds on a computer, so she can play ...

Somewhere between shoving components into a breadboard temporarily and committing them to a piece of protoboard or a PCB lies the copper tape method. This flexible Manhattan-style method of circuitry ...

Researchers with Swedish packaging company SCA have built a grand piano made only of cardboard that sounds almost like the real thing. The cardboard piano uses integrated circuits that are pressed ...

ATLAS PhD student Ruhan Yang blends papercraft and circuit design to make engineering more tangible, accessible and fun for tinkerers of all ages. Yang began her academic career with a bachelor’s ...

Create a working keyboard from cardboard using simple circuits and creative design. A fun and educational DIY innovation ...

Welcome to the new terms of engagement. Science museums have always offered hands-on exhibits and participatory programs, but now the New York Hall of Science is putting visitors in the driver’s seat ...

TV’s MacGyver would love the breadboard arrangement we saw recently: it uses paperclips and crimping to make circuits that can be more or less permanent with no soldering. The basic idea is simple. A ...