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CurveBoards Demo: Integrating Breadboards into Physical Objects to Prototype Function in the Context of Form

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CurveBoards are breadboards integrated into physical objects. In contrast to traditional breadboards, CurveBoards better preserve the object's look and feel while maintaining high circuit fluidity, which enables designers to exchange and reposition components during design iteration.
Since CurveBoards are fully functional, i.e., the screens are displaying content and the buttons take user input, designers can test interactive scenarios and log interaction data on the physical prototype while still being able to make changes to the component layout and circuit design as needed.
We present an interactive editor that enables users to convert 3D models into CurveBoards and our fabrication technique for making CurveBoard prototypes.

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Patrick Baudisch and Stefanie Mueller. Personal Fabrication. In Foundations and Trends® in Human--Computer Interaction 10, 3--4, 165--293, 2017.
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Ronald J. Portugal. Breadboard for Electronic Components or the Like. US Patent D228, 136, 1973.
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Junyi Zhu, Lotta-Gili Blumberg, Yunyi Zhu, Martin Nisser, Ethan Carlson, Xin Wen, Kevin Shum, Jessica Quaye, and Stefanie Mueller. CurveBoards: Integrating Breadboards into Physical Objects to Prototype Function in the Context of Form. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20).
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Junyi Zhu. A Software Pipeline for Converting 3D Models into 3D Breadboards. MIT Libraries. 2019.

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    CHI EA '20: Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    April 2020
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    DOI:10.1145/3334480
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    1. breadboards
    2. electronic prototyping
    3. interactive design
    4. personal fabrication

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