The PapierLogiK project was funded in January 2011 by Rodolphe Koehly, PhD Student, with the goal for vulgarizing his research in materials sciences for electronics hardware and provide know-how and tools to explore new ways of producing oneself electronic components, using sustainable resources such as cellulose and carbon.
The research had originally been proposed by Prof. Marcelo at IDMIL, Music Tech, McGill University, looking for DIY methods for the production of custom sensors for the fabrication of Digital Music Instruments.
With the help of numerous other valuable researchers such as Prof Denis Curtil at Pagora INP-Grenoble and Prof, Theodorus Van de Ven at PPRC McGIll University, Rodolphe Koehly explored the production of electrically functional composite materials such as co-polymers, textiles or else inks and cellulose-based papers.
The 2 latest materials, inks and papers revealed to be most interesting resources to produce and develop oneself for Rodolphe who originally was an Engineer in papermaking, printing and converting of papers and cardboards.
He was then able to produce small quantities of papers and inks in Labs to be used by himself or other researchers for a variety of application projects, with a focus on Digital Music Instruments from 2006 to 2011. This PhD research and the papierlogik project would later on be recognized with an article and cover pictures in Vol38 of the Computer Music Journal, MIT Press in 2014.
The concept could then be applied to more and more application fields, which pushed Rodolphe Koehly to create the PapierLogik Project and its website and open to new application potential. This lead to another numerous series of world-wide collaborations with a variety of researchers and application fields, but always based on the same concept:
1 - Discover the application potential of papierlogik resources through the website
2 - Contact us to get samples or a development kit
3 - Share you developments with us, so that we can best advise you and lead you to optimize your prototypes or reach higher development and production levels.
In 2019, and after hundreds of collaborations and developments with our custom lab papers and inks, we could finally meet for the first time the needs of a collaboration for which we would produce our own papers with an industrial machine. We can now produce in volume exactly the types of papers, inks, prints, or converted sensors we can design, and we can distribute our papers, development kits, or custom serial productions in larger quantities , lower costs and with the best specifications we could hope for it.
Our technology has now proven industrializable and efficient in applications such as MOOS interfaces, made of force sensor arrays enabling to efficiently automate Stock Management Systems. This product was presented by the Dutch delegation at the CES of Las Vegas in January 2024, counting water bottles and coke cans in the image below.
We would be very pleased that you challenged us over such developments if those can meet your interests,
Do not hesitate to contact us to let us know your interest in this project and our technologies
contact@papierlogik.com