Project:Classroom HackSpaceChallenge

Overview

This is a challenge to build a piece of equipment for the classroom.

More details here

Justification

We have to say why we should be allowed to enter, by the 11th of march. This section is a draft for ideas about why we are awesome. I suspect they are looking for impressive projects, so if people want to blow their own trumpets go ahead. Ideally mobile/electronic stuff? Srimech's turing machine might be a good thing, if he wants to get involved?

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We have recently started Young Hackspace where we show a bunch of kids around the space and get them to interact. One of the activities was we got them to draw pictures for the hackspace zoo, which we then scanned and laser cut for them to take home.

Ideas

There are different routes we could go in terms of educational content.

• Creative
  • Plasticine makerbot

• Programmable
  • Some robot or other. Maybe a plotter controlled like logo?

Do you mean lego? I think something between Lego mindstorms and PICAXE/Arduino, as I know at my school (and the Young hackspace kids) love to get the mindstorms out - but the PICAXE programming overwhelms them slightly (maybe due to bad teaching?), so school doesn't use them a lot. Maybe making it inter-operable with lego pieces? I know there is a guy at the hackspace trying to reverse engineer them, and the modular-ness is great. (MonkeyJam)

Roles

Put down what you are interested in working on

Software

I'd be up for coding any programming languages --Eb4890 14:57, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Electronics

Mechanics