Origami Circuits Kits

Origami Circuits Kits are another Crazy Circuits kit from Brown Dog Gadgets.

These engaging STEAM-centered Origami Circuits Kits will bring your students’ papercrafts to life.  They combine simple electronics with the centuries-old Japanese papercraft art of Origami. By adding LEDs and self-sticking motors students are able to create 3D papercraft projects that move, light up, and blink! This is a great way to teach art, design, engineering, and basic electronics.

As with all Crazy Circuits Kits, this kit requires no soldering. Circuits are assembled with conductive Maker Tape™.  Easily connect components by just sticking tape to them!

Keeping circuits simple really helps students understand how they apply connection and open and closed status.  This kit really highlights the ART concepts within STEAM while keeping the TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING pieces simple.

These kits are intended for makers ages 10 and up due to the small parts and dexterity concerns.

*Scissors not included.

This Origami Circuits Kit is available in standard and classroom versions.

The Standard Kit is intended for a single user or small group activities and includes enough parts for at least four vibrating projects, whereas the Classroom Set includes enough components for at least 25 vibrating projects. The Standard Kit also includes one card stock robot template, users of the Classroom Set can easily print off the robot template.

Standard Kit includes:

• 10 Blinking LEDs
• 5 Jumbo LEDs (Red, Blue, Green, White, and Color Changing)
• 5 Coin Cell Batteries
• 4 Vibrating Motors
• 1 Roll of Maker Tape (1/4th inch at 16 feet long)
• 1 Robot Template

Classroom Set Includes:

• 200 pcs Origami Paper
• 50 Blinking LEDs
• 25 Jumbo LEDs (Color Changing)
• 25 Coin Cell Batteries
• 25 Vibrating Motors
• 2 Rolls of Maker Tape (1/4th inch by 65 feet, for 130 feet total)

A wide variety of papercraft templates and designs can be found on their online Project Database. You’ll find a wide range of designs, from simple greeting cards to holiday-themed papercrafts. Print off the guides, watch the videos, cut out the templates, or create a fun project of your own!

I love that they allow full access to all of their resources via their online Project Database.  All the resources are 100% Open Source and free to use!