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Inventures

Invention + Adventure = Inventure.

During this hands on workshop you will create flexible circuits with sound, movement and light for walls, wearables, and objects.

We will explore social and psychological topics of invention and entrepreneurship throughout the session individually and in teams. Finally, we will use our projects to navigate a story building machine called Mission Control : The Game.

No experience in electronics necessary. Basic and beast makers – all welcome!

This is a code-free workshop, with everything you need in Kit A*. However if you want to BYOM  (bring your own microcontroller) and code along, we have you covered in Kit B and C*!  Make ON!

Kit A- Basic-  This kit contains everything you need to make the projects – no code!

35 EUR

Kit B- Beast- This kit contains the same components as the Basic kit + Launchpad for Micro:bit and Adafruit CLUE + Nexus Board + Space Tape. -microcontroller not included.

65 EUR

Kit C- Beast- This kit contains the same components as the Basic kit + The Space Station Set + Nexus Board + Space Tape for Arduino –  MKR, NANO, Raspberry Pi – ZERO, Adafruit – Feather. -microcontroller not included.

85 EUR

In the afternoon we remix our creations together!

After the workshop has ended, we invite you to take what you created and remix it any way you like. Take whatever interests, skills and materials you have to make it bigger, make it smaller, make it friendlier, .. We will ask you to keep your channels open during this process, so you can share knowledge, fun, inspiration or just friendly company with Jessica and the others participated in the workshop. For a (preliminary) schedule, check the Make & Remix Monday page.

by Jessica Cobb

Jessica Cobb, founder of Mission Control Lab, is an emerging technologist and serial entrepreneur. She carries the torch for the Maker Movement while spending her career developing 21st Century tools, talent and products in startups, big brands and government initiatives across Edtech, Medtech and beyond. She founded Mission Control Lab as a startup platform to pioneer products that ignite inclusion, innovation and a greater participation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. She operates with her team in Utrecht, The Netherlands, democratizing access to the future of work with her latest initiative, MakeON.

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Phone Grown

You don’t have to be techy to repurpose ‘older’ tech!

Join us in exploring less-technical, fun and creative ways to reuse seemingly obsolete technology in this guided workshop. In this workshop, we will (temporarily and non-destructively) repurpose an (old) smartphone or tablet into a ‘smart display’, using Google Sheets, pen and paper.

This smart display will then light up in various colours depending on the data you want it to represent, which – using pen and paper – is contextualised using an overlayed drawing. The combination of IFTTT.com, colours and a drawing results in endless options for personalisation and creativity!

At the end of the day, we’d love to discuss how DIY tech-repurposing approaches such as this one are more broadly applicable.

To join this workshop, you will need:

  • A smartphone that can connect to your Wi-Fi (preferably one you don’t need for a while, but not mandatory)Some pen and paper
  • A computer/laptop to set things up and join the remote  workshop
  • A Google account (for using Google Sheets – you need to be ~16 years or older)
  • An IFTTT.com account (for connecting it to data – you need to be 18 years or older). Note: if you are already using a free IFTTT account, please check/ensure you have at least 1 (out of 3) free ‘triggers’ left.

In the afternoon we remix our creations together!

After the workshop has ended, we invite you to take what you created and remix it any way you like. Take whatever interests, skills and materials you have to make it bigger, make it smaller, make it friendlier, .. We will ask you to keep your channels open during this process, so you can share knowledge, fun, inspiration or just friendly company with David and the others participated in the workshop. For a (preliminary) schedule, check the Make & Remix Monday page.

By David Verweij

I am a creative technologist building digital and physical products, and always busy with user experience design, software and hardware. In my current academic position at Newcastle University I specialise in a Research Through Design methodology. Using novel technologies and bespoke designs, I develop interactive research products and deploy them in-the-wild.

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Smartibot

Connected CardBot Challenge

Learn how to build a cardboard telepresence robot, using the Smartibot platform, and then create an escape room-type game experience, for other participants to play remotely by controlling the robot. The workshop will cover basic cardboard modelling techniques, simple JavaScript programming, using the telepresence system and rudimentary game mechanics. No prior experience is required.

We will send to participants:
Smartibot Kit
2 x 9g Servo Motors

30 EUR material cost

Other items needed:

The robot template PDF printed on an A4 sheet of paper
Some corrugated cardboard (ideally single-layer, like Amazon boxes)
A glue gun and glue sticks
A craft knife or scalpel
A surface you can cut on

In the afternoon we remix our creations together!

After the workshop has ended, we invite you to take what you created and remix it any way you like. Take whatever interests, skills and materials you have to make it bigger, make it smaller, make it friendlier, .. We will ask you to keep your channels open during this process, so you can share knowledge, fun, inspiration or just friendly company with Ross and the others participated in the workshop. For a (preliminary) schedule, check the Make & Remix Monday page.

By Ross Atkin

The Crafty Robot is run by designer and engineer Ross Atkin in London. Ross is a product designer, engineer and researcher with extensive experience designing and building connected products for major manufacturing companies. His work focuses mainly on assistive technology and physical accessibility and, along with Akram, he is a member of BBC’s ‘The Big Life Fix’ ‘Fix Team’.