TOPAOKO: interactive construction kit

Authors:
Kuan-Ju Wu;Mark D. Gross
Affiliations:
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Venue:
CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
2010

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Abstract

If you have a laser cutter, you can build your own TOPAOKO. We describe work in progress on TOPAOKO, an interactive construction kit that encourages experimentation and play with pieces of a hardboard based, embedded circuit, kit. We describe each component of the kit and examples of constructions built with it.