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|09 Feb
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|'''Puppets, Part 1''' - Creation of puppets for out 'Puppet theatre', created from conversion of our Chain Reaction machine. The first part will be creation of the puppet heads using papier mache.
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|Beck
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|25/08/13
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|16 Feb
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|'''Puppets, Part 2''' - The second part of the puppet creation, once the glue has dried from last week.
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|Beck
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|18/08/13
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|23 Feb
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|'''Personal Projects / General Making'''
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|11/08/13
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|2 March
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|'''Marble Machines''' - We will have Martin here to help us build his marble machines. There will be an additional cost for this session to cover the costs of each machine. Machines are £10 and the motor option is an additional £5. Details on his website here: [http://msraynsford.myshopify.com/collections/marble-machines/products/marble-machine-1 Machine-1] [http://msraynsford.myshopify.com/collections/marble-machines/products/marble-machine-4 Machine-4]<br/>
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There will be a further session in the afternoon for those who can't make the morning and we will be advertising both sessions to the wider Makespace audience.
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|Steve U/Martin Raynsford
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|Brian C
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|04/08/13
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|9 March
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|No = Steve
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'''Lego Robots'''
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Brian
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|28/7/13
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|16 March
|Steve, Beck, Brian
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'''Laser engraved badages'''
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Brian
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|21/7/13
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|23 March
|Beck, Brian
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|'''Chain-reaction machine planning, how to make switches, and triggers events''' lets start planning what our machine is going to look like, and how to make basic switches and then trigger an event.
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|'''Arduinos''' - Building and programming a dice using an Arduino. From easy to follow plans on breadboard for complete beginners, to soldering your own on stripboard for the more advanced.
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|Steve U
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|Brian C
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|14/7/13
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|30 March
|Steve, Brian, Beck
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|'''Water Rockets''' Stephen is coming in to talk about rockets and bring some of his to look at. we will also be making water rockets and launching them in a local park. This session could be a extend session due to the building and launching of the rockets, maybe best to bring a picnic along?
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|Stephen Woolhead
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'''Printing part 1'''
|Brian Corteil
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Matt
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|<!--deputy-->
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|7/7/13
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|6 April
|Beck
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|'''Banner planning''' + [something else??]
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'''Printing part 2'''
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Matt
 
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|30/6/13
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|13 April
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|'''Hydraulic Judo Bots''' - This session on building mechanical robots with hydraulic controls, followed by a competition to find the most effective design.     The robots will be built using experience gained in the projectile launchers session and also include bearings and hydraulic pistons. There are examples of designs and videos of example competitions at [http://www.instructables.com/id/Hydraulic-JudoBots/?ALLSTEPS Instructables]. <br />
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[ Photos from the day]
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'''Impossible Machines with Martin Raynsford''' - come and build an impossible machine. There will be an additional cost for this session to cover the costs of each machine of £15 per kit.  
|Rod
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Brian
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|<!--deputy-->
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|<!--meetup-->
 
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|23/6/13
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|20 April
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|'''Projectile launchers''' - This session will involve building 2 different types of projectile launchers, cork disks and drinking straw darts.  The launchers will be make of lolly pop sticks, wood blocks, rubber bands and copious amounts of hot glue, the designs are from [http://www.instructables.com/id/Cork-Shooter/?ALLSTEPS Cork-Shooter] and [http://www.instructables.com/id/Slingshot-Dart-Shooter/?ALLSTEPS Slingshot-Dart-Shooter] <br />
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No=Steve
[ Photos from the day]
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|Rod
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'''Family Makers - One Year Party !!! - Personal Projects / General Making''' - bring along your personal project, or start a new one!
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Brian
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|16/6/13
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|27 April
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|'''Open day: bring your own project to work on + show & tell'''
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No = Brian, Steve
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|(UK maker faire)
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|9/6/13
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|4 May
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|'''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.
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No = Steve
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwestbury/sets/72157634113380875/ Photos from the day]
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|Brian
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'''Jedi Pencils''' - Alex will be doing a session building sonic pencils or [http://web.media.mit.edu/~silver/drawdio/ Drawdios].  There are plenty of kits although soldering irons may be in short supply, so please bring one if you can. The kits are £10. There will be a competition for the best or possibly most annoying use of the sonic pencil, with the prize of a 3d printed transparent mount. There is a video [https://www.dropbox.com/s/dju9koqa2ngjvde/MVI_1395.AVI of a sonic pencil in action].
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|2/6/13
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|11 May
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|'''Arduino 101'''
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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.<br/>
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'''Raspberry Pi stuff Part 1''' with Rachel the Raspberry Pi artist-in-residence.
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwestbury/sets/72157633892849827/ Photos from the day]
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|Steve
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Brian
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|26/5/13
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|18 May
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|'''Salt dough fun'''
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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwestbury/sets/72157633800758113/ Photos from the day]
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'''Raspberry Pi stuff Part 2''' with Rachel the Raspberry Pi artist-in-residence.
|Beck
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Brian
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|25 May
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|<!--avail-->
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No=Steve
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'''Spaghetti Bridges Part 1'''
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Nigel
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|<!--deputy-->
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|1 June
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'''Spaghetti Bridges Part 2'''
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|<!--meetup-->
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|8 June
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No=Steve
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'''The Great Parachute Competition'''
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Nigel
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|<!--deputy-->
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|<!--meetup-->
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|15 June
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|<!--avail-->
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No=Nigel
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'''Viking Ships'''
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Diana
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|<!--deputy-->
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|<!--meetup-->
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|22 June
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|<!--avail-->
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'''Geodesic Domes'''
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|<!--owner-->
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Nigel
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|<!--deputy-->
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|<!--meetup-->
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|29 June
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|<!--avail-->
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|<!--topic-->
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|<!--owner-->
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|6 July
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|<!--avail-->
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No=Nigel
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|<!--topic-->
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|<!--owner-->
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|13 July
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|<!--avail-->
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No=Nigel
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|<!--topic-->
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|<!--owner-->
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|<!--deputy-->
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|<!--meetup-->
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|20 July
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|<!--avail-->
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No=Nigel
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No=Steve
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|<!--topic-->
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|<!--owner-->
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|<!--deputy-->
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|27 July
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|<!--avail-->
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|<!--owner-->
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|3 August
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|<!--avail-->
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|<!--topic-->
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|<!--owner-->
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|10 August
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|<!--avail-->
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No=Steve
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|<!--topic-->
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|<!--owner-->
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|<!--deputy-->
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|<!--meetup-->
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|17 August
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|<!--avail-->
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No=Steve
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|<!--topic-->
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|<!--owner-->
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|<!--deputy-->
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|<!--meetup-->
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|24 August
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|<!--avail-->
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|<!--topic-->
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|<!--owner-->
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|31 August
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|<!--avail-->
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|<!--topic-->
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|<!--owner-->
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|<!--deputy-->
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|7 Sept
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|<!--avail-->
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|<!--topic-->
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|<!--owner-->
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|<!--meetup-->
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|14 Sept
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|<!--avail-->
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No=Steve
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|<!--topic-->
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|<!--owner-->
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|<!--deputy-->
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|<!--meetup-->
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|21 Sept
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|<!--avail-->
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|<!--topic-->
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|<!--owner-->
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|<!--deputy-->
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|<!--meetup-->
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|28 Sept
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|<!--avail-->
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|<!--topic-->
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|<!--owner-->
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|<!--deputy-->
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|<!--meetup-->
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|5 Oct
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|<!--avail-->
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|<!--topic-->
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|<!--owner-->
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|<!--deputy-->
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|<!--meetup-->
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|12 Oct
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|<!--avail-->
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|<!--topic-->
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|<!--owner-->
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|19 Oct
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|<!--avail-->
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|<!--topic-->
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|<!--owner-->
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|26 Oct
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|<!--avail-->
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|<!--topic-->
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|<!--owner-->
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|2 Nov
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|<!--avail-->
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|<!--topic-->
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|<!--owner-->
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|<!--deputy-->
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|<!--meetup-->
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|9 Nov
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|<!--avail-->
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|16 Nov
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|<!--avail-->
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|19/5/13
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|23 Nov
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|'''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. <br />
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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwestbury/sets/72157633555023308/ Photos from the day]
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|Rod
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|12/5/13
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|30 Nov
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|<!--avail-->
|'''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. <br />
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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwestbury/sets/72157633477369011/ Photos from the day]
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|Nigel
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|5/5/13
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|7 Dec
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|'''Paper cranes'''<br />[http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwestbury/sets/72157633430008732/ Photos from the day]
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|<!--topic-->
|Chris
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|<!--owner-->
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|<!--deputy-->
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|21/4/13
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|14 Dec
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|'''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<br />[http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwestbury/sets/72157633333368813/ Photos from the day]
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|Brian
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|<!--owner-->
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|<!--deputy-->
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|14/4/13
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|21 Dec
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|'''Paper aeroplanes'''<br />[http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwestbury/sets/72157633246156559/ Photos from the day]
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|Steve
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Latest revision as of 04:46, 16 June 2014

Date Available? Topic Owner Deputy Meetup (y/n)
09 Feb Puppets, Part 1 - Creation of puppets for out 'Puppet theatre', created from conversion of our Chain Reaction machine. The first part will be creation of the puppet heads using papier mache. Beck
16 Feb Puppets, Part 2 - The second part of the puppet creation, once the glue has dried from last week. Beck
23 Feb Personal Projects / General Making
2 March Marble Machines - We will have Martin here to help us build his marble machines. There will be an additional cost for this session to cover the costs of each machine. Machines are £10 and the motor option is an additional £5. Details on his website here: Machine-1 Machine-4

There will be a further session in the afternoon for those who can't make the morning and we will be advertising both sessions to the wider Makespace audience.

Steve U/Martin Raynsford Brian C
9 March No = Steve

Lego Robots

Brian

16 March

Laser engraved badages

Brian

23 March Arduinos - Building and programming a dice using an Arduino. From easy to follow plans on breadboard for complete beginners, to soldering your own on stripboard for the more advanced. Steve U Brian C
30 March

Printing part 1

Matt

6 April

Printing part 2

Matt

13 April

Impossible Machines with Martin Raynsford - come and build an impossible machine. There will be an additional cost for this session to cover the costs of each machine of £15 per kit.

Brian

20 April

No=Steve

Family Makers - One Year Party !!! - Personal Projects / General Making - bring along your personal project, or start a new one!

Brian

27 April

No = Brian, Steve

(UK maker faire)
4 May

No = Steve

Jedi Pencils - Alex will be doing a session building sonic pencils or Drawdios. There are plenty of kits although soldering irons may be in short supply, so please bring one if you can. The kits are £10. There will be a competition for the best or possibly most annoying use of the sonic pencil, with the prize of a 3d printed transparent mount. There is a video of a sonic pencil in action.

11 May

Raspberry Pi stuff Part 1 with Rachel the Raspberry Pi artist-in-residence.

Brian

18 May

Raspberry Pi stuff Part 2 with Rachel the Raspberry Pi artist-in-residence.

Brian

25 May

No=Steve

Spaghetti Bridges Part 1

Nigel

1 June

Spaghetti Bridges Part 2

8 June

No=Steve

The Great Parachute Competition

Nigel

15 June

No=Nigel

Viking Ships

Diana

22 June

Geodesic Domes

Nigel

29 June
6 July

No=Nigel

13 July

No=Nigel

20 July

No=Nigel No=Steve

27 July
3 August
10 August

No=Steve

17 August

No=Steve

24 August
31 August
7 Sept
14 Sept

No=Steve

21 Sept
28 Sept
5 Oct
12 Oct
19 Oct
26 Oct
2 Nov
9 Nov
16 Nov
23 Nov
30 Nov
7 Dec
14 Dec
21 Dec