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Project page: [[Project:Young_Hackspace]]
* http://groups.google.com/group/london-hack-space/browse_thread/thread/b4b79bec6a40b031
 
== Prep ==
 
* Unplug all power machines?
* Store away sharp objects and deactivate open electric circuits
* Deactivate the people counter laser (it's about eye level for young kids)
 
== Demos ==
 
* Lasers (who?)
** Need: pen laser, smoke machine
* Jacob's Ladder (who?)
* flash cotton (who?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWEVm-G0JXw
 
* a Kinect interactive demo? (move/dance in front of a screen and see your silhouette projected in the style of an Apple iPod ad)
 
== Workshops ==
 
* Laser cutter (Tom, Will)
 
== Toys ==
 
* Binocular microscope
* Oscilloscope & power source
* Mindstorms? (Daniel/dhertz)
* "children's electronic/experiment sets (those ones with the big clip together components, etc)" (Anthony/ynohtna)
* IRC controlled RC car?
* multitouch table
* LED throwies?
 
 
== Future events ==
 
* monorail building workshop? (Senake)
* DIY electronic music (Anthony/ynohtna)
* how to etch PCBs (Printed Circuit Boards; the etching process uses toxic chemicals so has do be done by a grownup.) http://hackaday.com/2008/07/28/how-to-etch-a-single-sided-pcb/

Latest revision as of 18:52, 6 March 2011