The Modern Basic Electronic Circuit Learning Book: An Innovation by Using the Paper Electronics Approach

Abstract

In this work, the conventional basic electrical circuits that are normally used to teach in junior
high-school classroom have been simplified and re-innovated as a learning book by bridging very
cheap materials with modernized digital technologies and novel technique of circuitry on paper called
the paper electronics. It has been designed and created as an alternative process in teaching and
training the basic electrical circuits by using conductive materials that can be easy to find. For instance,
the graphite from pencil, copper tape, conductive paint and composite of graphite powder with
copper nanoparticles have been chosen to establish basic circuits which controlled an electricity via
the Arduino microcontroller board. It was found that suitable conductive material was copper tape.
From the test, the conductivity of copper tape is higher than that of other materials. The Learning

Book is designed to include a variety of electrical circuits, from simple to hard to enhance the basic
circuit experience, and the learning curve is monitored by students. 30 students with the evaluation
method of learning through the use of pre-test and post-test (Normalized Gain). The results of the
learning increase of the students are 80% - 70% = 10% and the highest result is 100% - 70% = 30%. In
summary, the performance of this learning book will help students understand the principles of the
circuit, which is 0.33. That is, learning books need to be improved in next time.