April 2016 Holiday: Roundup

Tear-Downs, Scuttle Robot™ Wars, LEGO Challenges, Arduino and Raspberry Pi — we did it all!

How much fun did we have?  See for yourself…

Scuttle Robot™ Wars — Workshop

April 2016 Holiday Week 2

Join Maker School for some holiday workshops — we're mixing things up a bit for week 2!

18-22nd April 2016
10am-12:30pm at The Digital Greenhouse, St Peter Port
£25 per session.  Ages 9+  Spaces limited
Contact: marcel.lenormand@gmail.com

Monday Morning Tear-Down Disassemble. Dismantle. Destroy. Discover! In a guided and thoughtful way we’ll be breaking the seal on a variety of gear and harvesting the useful parts!  Expect motors, LEDs, magnets and more. (no mains electricity!)
Tuesday:  Scuttle Robot™ Build Building Marcel’s cool vibrating robots from scratch.  We’ll be ripping apart DVD drives for their motors, adding batteries and nailbrushes then soldering and hot gluing them into action! Alert: Hands-on educational fun.
Wednesday: Scuttle Robot™ Wars Wild robotic action and battles.  If you came to the build session on Tuesday; GREAT!  If not, no problem.  We’ll put one together for you today and everyone will create their own combat body-shell. Note: take home your Scuttle Robot™
Thursday: Arduino Introduction Get your feet wet with these remarkably inexpensive little gadgets.  Write your own programs then add sensors and devices to make it do your bidding.   Absolute beginners welcome.
Friday: Raspberry Pi Introduction Blow your mind with this pocket-sized supercomputer.  Learn Python programming and connect external devices for some real-world computing. Absolute beginners welcome.

Something for the holidays? April 2016

After quite an epic hiatus, Maker School returns with some workshops for the holidays!

11-15th April 2016
10am-12:30pm at The Digital Greenhouse, St Peter Port
£25 per session.  Ages 9+  Spaces limited
Contact: marcel.lenormand@gmail.com

Monday Morning Tear-Down Disassemble.  Destroy.  Dismantle.  Discover! Taking things apart is a GREAT way to learn what goes on in the devices we use every day.  In a guided and thoughtful way we’ll be breaking the seal on a range of gear and harvesting the parts for future use. Expect motors, LEDs, circuit boards and more.  (no mains electricity!)
Wednesday:  Scuttle Robot Build Building Marcel’s cool vibrating robots from scratch.  We’ll be using motors that were harvested on Monday plus batteries and nailbrushes then soldering and hot gluing them into action! Alert: This will be fun.
Thursday: LEGO Challenge Come and play with a ton of LEGO and be challenged to do the impossible!  Expect head-scratching, brick-smashing frustration and jubilant success!
Friday: Scuttle Robot Wars™ Wild robotic action and battles.  If you came to the build session on Wednesday; GREAT!  If not, no problem.  We’ll put them together for you today and everyone will create their own combat body-shell. Note: take home your Scuttle Robot™

5 Weeks. Starting from…

Maker School will be running for 5 weeks only this term - starting Mon 8 Sept.  There may be an option to do a couple or weeks at the end of November also.

If you're new to Maker School, please register and indicate which day works for you.  Spaces are allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.

Maker School is Back!

Despite the radio silence over a very busy summer, and despite the breakdown of our website hosting, Maker School is back for the Autumn Term!  Hoorah!!

We'll be meeting on Mondays, Tuesday and Wednesdays at Le Friquet Garden Centre.  4-5:30pm. Commencing Mon 8 Sep.

Watch this space for more information.

To reserve a place, please email: marcel@makerschool.net

Maker School @ The Big Geekend

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You heard it here first folks… Maker School is running two afternoon workshops at Guernsey Museums' BIG GEEKEND.

From 12-4pm on Saturday 31 May and Sunday 1 June, we'll be in the Discovery Room at Candie Museum, making… JunkBots™

Motors, batteries and junk — what will you make them do?