The current issue of IEEE Spectrum magazine (which I regularly read in my 
previous life, and still receive) has in its current July 2026 issue a “Hands 
On” article titled “Make an Origami Circuit Board.”

https://spectrum.ieee.org/origami-circuit-boards

It’s pretty cool: you impregnate the paper with a potentially conductive 
material, and then the act of folding makes it conductive. Add batteries, LEDs, 
and/or motors, and you’ve got some pretty cool origami widgets.

Interesting that here the fold pattern’s function is to generate the electrical 
traces, versus creating the folded form. But the idea looks like it has 
possibilities.

Robert

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