Paper Pocket Pets - Making Wearable Interactive Toys

We present Paper Pocket Pets, an approach to create personal interactive toys that children can carry along with them. Creating Paper Pocket Pets involves four activities that combine traditional crafts with digital fabrication: paper folding to create a pet; fabrication of the pet's shelter (a platform where the pet lives on); fabrication of the pet's electric components; and programming the pet's behavior. We invite the FabLearn audience to create their own pets and explore these activities during the demo at the conference.