Making Squishy Circuits!

After following the instructions that were linked in a previous post (http://makezine.com/projects/squishy-circuits/) I had a couple pounds of conductive dough in an easy twenty minutes.

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A test LED with batteries in serial was able to light up and stay lit without wavering. It felt very breadboard-esque sticking the connectors in the dough! Dough-board?

My next test was to stick the conductive things through fabric. I figure it would work for obvious reasons, but I just wanted to make sure my primary mode of interaction would work...

...And it did!

Last, since in my excitement I didn't make insulating dough for it, I wanted to see how much loss there was through a long run of Squish.

Here's the track...

This is the voltage at the beginning...

This is the voltage after the track.

Around 3% loss is nice, but the insulating dough may still be necessary because my design will likely be having different doughs close to each other.

So the point is that the dough, albeit un-insulated, is able to reliably conduct, and its squishiness will compliment me sticking things through it without breaking, shattering, scratching, etc. With other hardware and good coding, I'm on my way to a performance system!