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17-25 October 2026

This project is now archived and was part of DDW23

Event type

Exhibition

An electronic piano made of magnets and conductive
An electronic piano made of magnets and conductive
Photographed by Feng Shuyue
MechCircuit is an innovative prototype design and manufacturing platform. It combines circuit design, structural design, and modeling design using a new type of conductive magnet.

OUR INSPIRATION

For designers, they often lack professional knowledge in circuits and structures, which makes them lack technical means when implementing their creative ideas. MechCircuit, as a design and manufacturing platform, can help them conveniently design in terms of appearance, electronics, and structure. For the product development process, the design of appearance, circuits, and structures are often carried out separately, which ultimately makes it difficult to match between the different parts. This wastes a lot of time and money. The vision of MechCircuit is to complete the entire process together to improve the efficiency of product iteration.

HOW IT WORKS

1. By using a conductive magnet and integrating it into the circuit, traditional static circuits can be made to move. This approach can create some movable structures and easily change the layout of the circuit. It can be widely used in interactive device design, rapid prototype manufacturing, and product development in the future. 2. Developed software tools that can quickly create circuits and magnet structures. Designers, artists, and researchers without a background in circuits and mechanics can quickly get started with design and manufacturing, with a very low learning cost. This can support these groups to freely exercise their imagination to create. 3. By integrating circuit design, structural design, and modeling design together, products can be considered as a whole, which can greatly reduce research and development costs and time.
A sensor light
A sensor light
Photographed by Feng Shuyue
A walking robot that can sense the position of a p
A walking robot that can sense the position of a p
Photographed by Feng Shuyue
A table lamp with adjustable brightness and color
A table lamp with adjustable brightness and color
Photographed by Feng Shuyue
A table lamp with adjustable brightness and color
A table lamp with adjustable brightness and color

About Zhejiang University

ISD (International School of Design) at Zhejiang University is an internationalized design school where students from all over the world. The goal of the institute is to provide students from developing countries with high quality design education resources to help their countries develop better, and the institute provides full financial support.

Colofon

leader Shuyue Feng
designer Weijia Lin
designer Jiayu Yao
researcher Yuhui Xu
advisor Cheng Yao
advisor Guanyun Wang
Design Engineering Kaiwen Guo
Design Shaogeng Zeng

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