Family-Makers-Projects-List

Date	Available?	Topic	Owner	Deputy	Meetup (y/n)
09 Feb		Puppets, Part 1	Beck
16 Feb
23 Feb
2 March
9 March
16 March
23 March
30 March
6 April
13 April
20 April
27 April
4 May
11 May
9/6/13		Chain-reaction machine planning the day started with a small demo, with four elements. A countdown programmed in scratch, with photos taken by Billy, who also programmed the countdown. Which fired a nerf gun. The dart hit a target, pushed a toy car(with a little help) that that knocked over some dominos. We made marble run machines that knocked over dominos. At the end we linked two of the machines together. Dave and Rosie from the Cambridge science centre came in to give a talk about the chain reaction and let us test drive one of their new activities. Photos from the day	Brian
2/6/13		Arduino 101 This session started with the setup of the Arduino software on a laptop and then connection to an Arduino and downloading a simple sketch. The first sketch was a simple blink of the onboard LED. This then progressed to wiring in an external LED and a pair of LEDs, to reproduce the electronics 'flip-flop' from a few weeks ago. We then moved on to a traffic light sequence and for the more advanced decoding a numeric keypad and use of an ultrasonic distance sensor. Photos from the day	Steve
26/5/13		Salt dough fun Photos from the day	Beck
19/5/13		3D-modeling with cardboard and glue guns - This session is in two parts: the first, crafting with hand-cut corrugated cardboard to make hats, helmets and masks, the main points are shaping structure from flat sheets, reinforcement and ease of major modifications; the second, assembling a number of precut models, to show that a 3D model represented in a computer can be produced with different construction techniques, layered slices, radial slices. Finally, the attendees saw the laser cutter cutting one of the models, to show its just a quicker/more accurate scissiors. Photos from the day	Rod
12/5/13		Basic electrical circuits - This week's challenge was to build a circuit that flashes two LEDs on and off. The children were provided with breadboards, resistors, capacitors, transistors, wires and battery packs. A circuit diagram was provided, but the children had to figure out how to map the circuit diagram to pins on the breadboard. Most families succeeded in the challenge though some of the younger children had fun just getting LEDs to light up in simpler circuits. One family went on to solder their circuit, make use of the soldering station available at Makespace while others connected their circuits to oscilloscopes. Photos from the day	Nigel		y
5/5/13		Paper cranes Photos from the day	Chris		y
21/4/13		Egg drop - The idea of this project is protect a raw egg from a 2 meter drop, with the supplied materials. The materials used were bubble wrap, card, paper, tape, plastic shopping bags and glue Photos from the day	Brian		y
14/4/13		Paper aeroplanes Photos from the day	Steve		y