User:Martind/Young Hackspace
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Context:
Prep
Days before
- email the list: introducing the Young Hackspace; pls be considerate of the kids and their safety; got any laser cutter work we can show to give the kids an idea of the possibilities?
- tweet: "First 'Young Hackspace' this Saturday with a group of six year olds. Health & safety prep! Hackers: store away your sharp objects!"
- announce Health & Safety cleanup session for Friday night
Workshop prep
- Tom/Will: plan the sequence of events; what do we need to prepare/organise/buy?
- Find people who can set up the toys & demos (cf. below)
Friday night/Saturday morning
- 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/
