User:Martind/Young Hackspace

Context:

• http://groups.google.com/group/london-hack-space/browse_thread/thread/b4b79bec6a40b031

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?
• "big bubble wand in one of the "rubbish" boxes"

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/