Leah Buechley: How to "sketch" with electronics

Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Thu-Huong Ha

翻译人员: Wei Wu 校对人员: 文进 肖

Today, I'm going to talk to you about sketching electronics.

今天，我要向大家介绍手绘电路技术。

I'm, among several other things, an electrical engineer,

我的身份之一是电子工程师，

and that means that I spend a good amount of time

这意味着我将很大一部分时间

designing and building new pieces of technology,

用在设计和建造新技术上，

and more specifically designing and building electronics.

更具体说就是设计和构造电路。

And what I've found is that the process of designing

可是我发现电路的设计构造过程

and building electronics is problematic in all sorts of ways.

无论从那个角度看，都存在问题。

So it's a really slow process, it's really expensive,

开发时间太长，花的钱太多，

and the outcome of that process,

最终的产出

namely electronic circuit boards,

就是一块电路板，

are limited in all sorts of kind of interesting ways.

怎么看都不那么有趣。

So they're really small, generally, they're square

它们都很小，一般都是四四方方的

and flat and hard, and frankly, most of them

又平又硬，老实说，大多数电路板

just aren't very attractive, and so my team and I

都没啥意思，所以我和我的小组

have been thinking of ways to really change and mix up

一直在思考怎样才能彻底改变

the process and the outcome of designing electronics.

电路的设计过程和最终的产出。

And so what if you could design and build electronics

如果可以这样设计和构造电路会不会很好？

like this? So what if you could do it extremely quickly,

如果你可以非常快速的构造电路，

extremely inexpensively, and maybe more interestingly,

超级便宜，并且非常有趣

really fluidly and expressively and even improvisationally?

非常流畅，非常直观，甚至是即兴地构造？

Wouldn't that be so cool, and that wouldn't that open up

这样是不是很酷，会不会给电路设计

all sorts of new possibilities?

带来更多的可能性？

I'm going to share with you two projects that are

我接下来介绍的两个项目

investigations along these lines, and we'll start with this one.

就是针对这两个问题。这是第一个。

(Video) Magnetic electronic pieces and ferrous paper.

（视频）电磁元件，和含铁的纸

A conductive pen from the Lewis lab at UIUC.

导电笔，来自UIUC大学 Lewis 实验室

Sticker templates.

贴纸模板

Speed x 4.

（四倍速度播放）

Making a switch.

做一个开关

Music: DJ Shadow.

音乐：《DJ Shadow》

Adding some intelligence with a microcontroller.

加上一个高级一点的控制器

Sketching an interface.

画一个交互的接口

(Music)

（音乐）（钢琴的声音）

(Laughter)

（笑声）

(Applause)

（掌声）

Pretty cool, huh? We think so.

很酷吧！我们也这么觉得。

So now that we developed these tools

我们开发了这些工具

and found these materials that let us do these things,

发现这些工具能够做这么多的事情，

we started to realize that, essentially, anything

我们意识到：本质上来说，

that we can do with paper, anything that we can do

任何能用纸完成的事情，

with a piece of paper and a pen

任何靠纸和笔能做到的事情，

we can now do with electronics.

我们都可以做成电路来完成。

So the next project that I want to show you is kind of a

下一个要我要展示给大家的项目

deeper exploration of that possibility.

更深入的探索了手绘电路的各种可能性。

And I'll kind of let it speak for itself.

接下来不用我解释。

(Music)

（音乐）

(Applause)

（掌声）

So the next step for us in this process

我们下一个目标

is now to find a way to let all of you

是让你们所有人

build things like this,

都能做出类似的东西来。

and so the way that we're approaching that is by

为了达到这个目标

teaching workshops to people where we explain

我们举办教学沙龙

how they can use these kinds of tools, and then also

来教大家如何使用这些工具

working to get the tools and the materials and techniques

我们也在努力将这些工具和技术

out into the real world in a variety of ways.

通过多种途径传播到（实验室之外的）现实世界中。

And so sometime soon, you'll be able to play and build

所以不久后，你们就可以用这个新颖的技术

and sketch with electronics in this fundamentally new way.

自己构造手绘电路了。

So thank you very much. (Applause)

非常感谢。（掌声）