Difference between revisions of "Project:Classroom HackSpaceChallenge"

Revision as of 13:49, 7 March 2011

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?

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?
- Moved to discussion page.
Programming Bricks (see discussion page)

Science

A visible (possibly UV) spectrometer.
- This should be easy to fit into the confines of the competition, although I personally hadn't thought of a portable power supply it should be simple enough to incorporate. I have ideas that I will try and outline soon to help development. Ciarán
- Is that a machine to find out what elements are in a sample? Like a mass or IR spectrometer? You can make those? Daniel
  - Well it is usually used for chemical identification, though some decent analysis I'm sure you could do elemental analysis. This would be a visible light spectrometer, a mass spectrometer is much much more difficult and expensive to make (£100,000's). I'd like to attempt an IR spectrometer in the future but not at the moment.

Draft Proposal

A draft of the proposal we will submit. Nothing so far.

Roles

Put down what you are interested in working on

Software

Member	Language
Eb4890	Any
Ciarán	Python

Electronics

Member	Skills
Ciarán	Basic soldering

Mechanics

Member	Skills
Ciarán	Happy to design, and cut stuff on laser cutter.

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 ** This should be easy to fit into the confines of the competition, although I personally hadn't thought of a portable power supply it should be simple enough to incorporate. I have ideas that I will try and outline soon to help development. [[user:ciaran.mooney|Ciarán]]
 ** Is that a machine to find out what elements are in a sample? Like a mass or IR spectrometer? You can make those? [[user:MonkeyJam|Daniel]]
+*** Well it is usually used for chemical identification, though some decent analysis I'm sure you could do elemental analysis. This would be a visible light spectrometer, a mass spectrometer is much much more difficult and expensive to make (£100,000's). I'd like to attempt an IR spectrometer in the future but not at the moment.
 ==Draft Proposal==