Here, we present FlexBoard template and its drafting.
FlexBoard is Flexible breadboarding platform that has upward/downward bending capability and plugging spots like breadboard. FlexBoard enables rapid prototyping with interactive components such as sensors, actuators and displays on curved and deformable objects.
FlexBoard is designed from a flexible living hinge. The hinges tightly hold the metal strips of conventional breadboard while keeping flexibility. FlexBoard can be either cut into specific length or joined with other hinges through ball joint systems.
Users can refer our drafting and customize it to their own purposes. Of course, they can directly download stl files(we provide 3 hinge units and 72 hinge) and play with it.
3D printing
FlexBoard can be printed with common FDM 3D printer.
Our hinge design is designed for nylon filament(FYI, we used 245
Extracting Terminal Strips
Users can extract metal strip from existing breadboard. We recommend to peel off the tape from the backside of the breadboards, which released most of the terminal strips from the board. To extract the remaining strips, we either used our own tape, placed it across the backside of the breadboard, and peeled it off to release more of the terminal strips or used a needle to push the remaining strips out.
FlexBoard project is published on The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.(CHI 2023)*
If you have any questions/requests, please email to dong7863@gmail.com
Thank you and enjoy :)
* Donghyeon Ko, Yoonji Kim, Junyi Zhu, Michael Wessely, and Stefanie Mueller. 2023. FlexBoard: A Flexible Breadboard for Interaction Prototyping on Curved and Deformable Surfaces. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Hamburg, Germany) (CHI ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580748