CPX light box

The full tutorial is here. Rob has some nice extension ideas there too, which I haven't tried yet.

This is a relatively pure integration of digital technology with art. The Circuit Playground Express (CPX) provides backlighting for drawings done on tracing paper.

Materials: Shoe box, light card, CPX, tracing paper

I'm a poor artist so I googled "easy to draw pics" and picked some from this site. I used a 6B pencil.

Here are a couple of videos which show how it works: