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Very cool! Much faster than when I used to build circuit boards.

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Interesting concept. Brings back memories of those x in 1 electronics kits from Radio Shack. I cut my teeth on those.

Neat Ideal but I don't see a use for it outside of schools and art projects.

Do you mean the kits that had the springs you bent and stuck the wires in to connect stuff? Cause this is kinda the same thing.

Yeah, the spring connector breadboards.

Yeah! I had a few of them things too. I can remember that odd phase where I outgrew them and was attaching parts of them to actual prototyping breadboards cause I didn't have the actual parts but the kit did!

I think that this has lot of possibilities outside of the classroom.. I could do some pretty awesome stuff with LEDs and this pen.. I'm going to get one for my Dad for christmas and I'm probably going to buy myself one so that I can experiment with the ability to mount LEDs in places that I wouldn't have been able to mount them before because of location restrictions.. I could, in theory build the circuit on a plastic panel in the dash and mouth the LED and then just connect some wires to the circuit to run to a switch.. I really think this is a pretty awesome idea..

Don't expect it to be able to do much more then light a few LEDs. I am sure that when you flow to much amperage it will burn up at the thinnest point.

I think it great though for testing your ideas out real quick. Just draw it out with this pen and test immediately. No need to mess with wires until you're sure it works. Then build your permanent version.

It's all pretty low voltage stuff. LEDs and ICs.

Not sure it's practical for serious prototyping - I'd still prefer a breadboard. But I can see it as a modern alternative to those x in 1 spring clip electronics kits for kids to learn.

Speaking of prototyping. Any of you guys ever work with wire wrapping? Back in the day I built a lot of interface boards for my Commodore PET using wire wrap. I even wire wrapped a memory card for my PET. As a lesson in patience, it had few equals.

Sure have. Some of the machines I work on still have boards in them that were built that way.