Brown Dog Gadgets demos 'Jumpy the Frog'

Brown Dog Gadgets has posted a video demonstration of “Jumpy the Frog,” a classroom paper-circuits project that uses a vibrating frog build to teach basic circuitry. The company’s guide describes the activity as an origami-style project in which students cut out a frog template, fold it, add electronics and use a pull tab as a switch. The guide says the project takes 30 to 60 minutes and is rated “moderate” difficulty. Brown Dog Gadgets linked the activity through its online project database and a YouTube demo. ### What exactly are students building? “Jumpy The Frog” is described by Brown Dog Gadgets as “this silly cube frog” that “likes to jump around,” with motion created after students add the electronics and place the switch. The guide says students cut out the template, fold along dotted lines and “make your own pull tab to turn it on and off.” (learn.browndoggadgets.com) The project sits inside Brown Dog Gadgets’ Origami Circuits materials, which the company presents as a set of hands-on electronics activities. The attached document listed on the guide is labeled “Frog,” indicating the printable template used for the build. ### What materials does the guide call for? The Brown Dog Gadgets guide lists scissors, glue and clear tape under tools. (learn.browndoggadgets.com) The parts list names an Origami Circuits Kit rather than loose components, suggesting the activity is packaged around a ready-made classroom materials set. Brown Dog Gadgets’ broader paper-circuits catalog describes its projects as suitable for classrooms, workshops and kitchen-table use. (learn.browndoggadgets.com) A separate lessons page says its paper-circuits materials include classroom lessons on basic circuitry, switches, conductors and insulators, placing “Jumpy the Frog” within a larger set of introductory electronics activities. ### How does Brown Dog Gadgets position the lesson? The guide page credits Amanda Etim with the project entry dated October 1, 2025, and lists Joshua as a writer with one other contributor. The page labels the build “moderate” and gives a completion window of 30 to 60 minutes, which places it in the range of a single class period or makerspace block. (learn.browndoggadgets.com) Brown Dog Gadgets’ project database says it hosts “guides, resources, lesson plans, eBooks, code, and more,” and includes dedicated sections for origami circuits and paper circuits. That structure indicates the frog activity is being offered as part of the company’s free instructional library alongside its hardware kits. ### Where can teachers find the demo and lesson files? (learn.browndoggadgets.com) Brown Dog Gadgets has a YouTube video titled “Origami Circuits: Jumpy the Frog,” and the video description points viewers to the same guide page. The guide page itself includes the project introduction, tools list, kit reference and the attached frog document. The next step for teachers is on Brown Dog Gadgets’ guide page, where the company hosts the printable frog template and project instructions, and on the linked YouTube demo showing the build in motion. (learn.browndoggadgets.com 1) (learn.browndoggadgets.com 2) (youtube.com)