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This page supports the Beambox Day (20 Dec 2015) held at Aotea Square, Auckland,
and explains how to make a simple Beambox Transmitter and Receiver using
“Cardboard Electronics”

Beambox
Beambox is an interactive playground exhibit set up in Aotea Square in the heart of Auckland in
December 2015. Seven boxes can be moved around a grid and interact with each other using
information beamed from one box to another. Here is a link to a website that gives more
information about Beambox:
https://colab.aut.ac.nz/beambox/

The Beamboxes communicate with each other using the transmitter and receiver circuits I
developed and these are shown on the “Sound via Light” webpage at:
http://www.burchills.info/sound_via_light/sound_via_light.html

I have recently made simpler versions of the transmitter and receiver and designed them in a
cheap format which I call “Cardboard Electronics”.

Download this video clip (5MB) that shows the transmitter and receiver working together:

Cardboard Electronics
A circuit layout is glued onto corrugated cardboard using paper glue. When dried, a small screw
driver or medium sized nail is used to push holes in the cardboard at circuit junction points.
Brassed-steel paper fasteners are pushed into the holes, then splayed out underneath and
tapped flat with a small hammer. Components and connecting wires are soldered to the paper
fastener domes as seen in the photos above.

Transmitter and Receiver Circuit Diagrams

Transmitter and Receiver Layout Diagrams
Download an A4 template (368KB, Word docx format) of the below diagrams here.
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