Circuit Scribe - Instantly draw electrical circuits on a piece of paper

[enki_ck]

OK, this is cool. I'd love to have had this thing in my high school physics class. Or even for quick projects at home. Looks so much fun and useful too. Just had to share.





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[Breezy12]

I can't decide if this would have been useful in my circuits and electronics classes, or if it would have been too much of a distraction.

either way, I kinda want one now. very cool!

[Cupboard]

I'm an electronic engineering. I have designed PCBs for real products. I can't see the point of this.

Maybe I'm just being too closed minded, but what do you gain over a bit of strip-board apart from looking cool?

[enki_ck]

I'm an electronic engineering. I have designed PCBs for real products. I can't see the point of this.

Maybe I'm just being too closed minded, but what do you gain over a bit of strip-board apart from looking cool?

In real life use or production, very little use. But in education, HUGE.

Imagine you have to teach kids how circuits work. And instead of them just drawing diagrams in their notebooks, and not understanding them they could just draw the lines with this pen and have a working circuit. No soldering, no need for PCB. And you can reuse the LEDs, ... cause they are just held in place by a magnet.

Around here kids start learning circuits at age 12. Having 25 twelve year olds in a class, each one with a soldering iron is a recipe for disaster.

[Breezy12]

I'm an electronic engineering. I have designed PCBs for real products. I can't see the point of this.

Maybe I'm just being too closed minded, but what do you gain over a bit of strip-board apart from looking cool?

In real life use or production, very little use. But in education, HUGE.

Imagine you have to teach kids how circuits work. And instead of them just drawing diagrams in their notebooks, and not understanding them they could just draw the lines with this pen and have a working circuit. No soldering, no need for PCB. And you can reuse the LEDs, ... cause they are just held in place by a magnet.

Around here kids start learning circuits at age 12. Having 25 twelve year olds in a class, each one with a soldering iron is a recipe for disaster.

exactly.

my 6-year old already has a circuit board that he loves to play with. (it's a very simple one, designed for kids -- the pieces snap into place.) I'm an electrical engineer, so I love to see him enjoying this kind of learning, and I'm positive he would LOVE one of these.

plus, Dad would have to test it out to make sure it works, and show him how to use it, and...