Circuit Scribe made its way onto Kickstarter (an online site where people can fund projects) on November 19, 2013, with its goal of raising $85,000 for the manufacturing of the first batch of pens.
Once completed, they started a Kickstarter campaign to earn funding for a mass production of the final form of the pens.
The researching team consists of S. Brett Walker, Jennifer A. Lewis, Michael Bell, Analisa Russo, and Nancy Beardsly.
In order to enlarge the size of the particle to an average diameter of about 400 nanometers, the flask is placed on a heated sonicator, a device that produces high-intensity ultrasound.
Once cooled, the solution is poured into a larger flask and the thick precipitate, an insoluble solid which is formed is scraped out.
With this aspect and its ability to connect different types of modules, it is possible to produce simple designs like an Arduino, an open-source electronic platform based on hardware and software.
Circuit Scribe allows users to create a paper Arduino (or a ‘paperduino’), which is demonstrated by the research team.
Finally, the team measured the size of the board layout and dragged it onto a new sheet on Silhouette Studio.
From there, the vertical height was adjusted to 2.945 inches and the speed was set to 1 in order to lay down the most ink when printed.