CircuiTricks
Maker Faire Bay Area 2015
MAKERS
Nirman Dave
I am 18 year old tech enthusiast who have developed over 200 open sourced computer programs along with exciting things like 3D chocolate printers. I wish empower kids through the technologies I make, therefore, CircuiTricks.
Sohil Patel
Sohil Patel is a 24 year old college graduate who dropped job at Google to benefit the Maker movement. He as curated events like Maker Fest in India and has workedon many open source hardware projects. He wishes to empower kids, so, CircuiTricks.
Ishan Patel
Ishaan Patel is a maker who has been enthusiastic about CircuiTricks since its start. He has worked along and helped us reach out to many kids across the nation.
CircuiTricks is a do it yourself kit for school kids to draw out their own working electrical circuits using just pencil and paper! Making things like working guitars with just pencil lines, or working drums using drawings on paper are just the start
What inspired you to make this project?:
We believe that kids today have immense potential, which if diverted to a task that challenges their thinking, will greatly affect their understanding of the outside world. My younger cousin, uses electronics items everyday but find it difficult to understand how it works. He talks about making phone apps but doesn't quite appreciate the things around him.
To bridge these gaps, I wanted to create something simple and aesthetic. Something that allowed my brother to understand electronics, while being creative. And also allow him to explore the endless possibilities of the simple things around him. Something as simple as a pencil and paper, has the potential to create beautiful circuits and should be greatly valued.
This went from being just a fun activity to a creative young maker's movement as we then reached out to 100 schools across the nation and over 4000 kids across the nation to do the FREE CircuiTricks workshops, where we inspired the kids to make new things!
