Drawing the TinySynth
TinySynth is a project oriented around a paper-craft synthesizer that can be built with a handful of components and conductive inks. It explores the possibilities presented by crafting on a … more
Pu Gong Ying Tu (Dandelion Painting)
Pu Gong Ying Tu is an interactive painting of a dandelion field. When you blow on the white puffs, the seeds disperse and generate new flowers. These flowers begin as … more
Animating Paper paper
Qi, J. and Buechley, L. 2012. Animating Paper with Shape Memory Alloys, In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI). … more
Artist in Residence at Texas A&M
January 23, 2012
College Station, Texas
Leah visits the department of architecture at Texas A&M.
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Keynote at URI’s Academic Summit
January 20, 2012
Kingston, Rhode Island
Leah speaks about interdisciplinary research and education at the University of Rhode Island’s 2012 Academic Summit.
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LilyTiny
The LilyTiny is a small sewable breakout board for ATtiny85 microcontrollers – devices which may be integrated into circuits to enable pre-determined interactions such as lights that flash or areas … more
LilyTiny Monster
This handout for educators describes how to make a sparkling monster with the LilyTiny and two LEDs.… more
Textile Sensors
We are exploring ways to build sensors using a variety of crafting and needlework techniques, using affordable and available materials such as conductive threads, yarns, fabrics, and paints.… more
Leah speaks @ the Cyberlearning Research Summit
January 17-18, 2012
Washington, DC
Leah speaks about art, craft, and technology education at the NSF sponsored Cyberlearning Research Summit.
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Leah speaks @ the Social Computing Summit
January 12-13, 2011
New York, NY
Leah speaks about DIY, fashion, and gender at Microsoft’s Social Computing Summit.
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