Project:Young Hackspace/YH-1

Laser cutter workshop and Mindstorms.

Links:

• "Hackspace tour for a small group of six year olds!"
• "Young kids visiting this Saturday. Health & safety prep! Hackers: store away your sharp objects!"
• "Today's Young Hackspace event..."
• Photos: Young Hackspace

Demos

Don't forget to get some stickers from Spike's (Chris Foote's) box.

definitely:

• Tour of the space (what?)
• Lasers (Tom, Will)
  • Need: pen laser, smoke machine

likely:

• a Kinect interactive demo? (move/dance in front of a screen and see your silhouette projected in the style of an Apple iPod ad)

possibly:

• Jacob's Ladder (who?)
• flash cotton (who?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWEVm-G0JXw

Workshops

• Laser cutter (Tom, Will)
• Mindstorms intro (Daniel/dhertz)

Toys

definitely:

• Binocular microscope
• multitouch table (who can set it up?)
• Makedo set (in Nigel's box)

likely:

• Oscilloscope & power source
• IRC controlled RC car?
• "big bubble wand in one of the "rubbish" boxes"

possibly:

• "children's electronic/experiment sets (those ones with the big clip together components, etc)" (Anthony/ynohtna)
• LED throwies?