
Drawdio is an electronic pencil that lets you make music while you draw! This fun pack has all the fun without the soldering. Essentially, its a very simple musical synthesizer that uses the conductive properties of pencil graphite to create different sounds. The result is a fun toy that lets you draw musical instruments on any piece of paper. This is the assembled version, for kits visit our kit page.
- Runs on a single AAA battery for many hours (even ‘nearly dead’ batteries will work)
- Use pencils, brushes, people, fabric, anything you want to make noise.
- Ridiculously fun for all ages
The assembled Drawdio pack contains:
- Assembled & tested Drawdio – no soldering required!
- Large brush
- Soft lead pencil + thumbtack
- 2 x Alligator clips
- 4 x Wire ties (the photo shows 2, but the kit has 4)
- 12″ of copper tape
There’s lots more information at the Drawdio kit website Including a bunch of inspirational videos here. The Drawdio kit was designed in collaboration with Jay Silver based on his original design.
Get the Assembled Drawdio fun pack – v1.2 in the Adafruit store!

Printable catalog (PDF)
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Drawdio rocks! It was my daughter’s first electronics-with-soldering project:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gvfr2KFnG4
Comment by __ew__ — October 6, 2009 @ 12:02 am
Is this version 1.2 because it is assembled or did the PCB change?
Comment by jay — October 6, 2009 @ 8:28 am
jay, typo
its been fixed!
Comment by ladyada — October 6, 2009 @ 10:20 am
Thanks. I’m going to buy a couple of the kits for my kids. It looks like fun!
Comment by jay — October 6, 2009 @ 10:23 am