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We had another of our outdoor meetups today.
A new project has emerged. Several of us are making carts! So far there is Lakota, Doug, Eric and Darcy that all have some prototypes of electric carts.
This will become programming at the makerfaires and some schools.
Photo credits: Lakota, Richard, Darcy
We made some progress on the space program thanks to Steve (of rimstar.org). He made a complete apparatus for electrolysis. We learned a lot from it and it will affect our next steps.
I also flew my magnus glider but I’ve not got any pictures on that yet…
Wow what a fun meetup last night!
I was hoping some people would come for our regular show and tell and activities.
I did a presentation on Social Network Theory and Computational Sociology. I also showed my pendant project. Lots of amazing ideas came forward!
We really need to get out to this group again!
At tonight’s meetup we had fun with Doug’s propeller powered cart plus some other drone and glider activities.
We also discussed the new “box” project. The idea is that people can subscribe to this “box” and then receive a box of parts on a regular basis. People could have fun with the kits and other contents and share ideas with others about how to use the components…
What do you think? What to call the program?
So back in the old days when we were running the Blink meetups Doug had this kit he made to introduce soldering and Arduino.
There was this one young lady who came and she was a bit reluctant to do the hands-on activity thinking it was too hard. Her name was Elgin. Doug and I insisted it was easy and she had a go at it.
She was ecstatic when the lights came on.
I came across her online yesterday.
She leads soldering and arduino type workshops in BC now and is a Masters Student in the School of Interactive Arts & Technology (SFU Vancouver).
https://twitter.com/keywordnew/status/985610674419073024
Here’s a drawing robot she made.
Hi @SimoneGiertz will you rate my shitty robot? 💩🤖 pic.twitter.com/6Sf9111MT7
— Elgin-Skye McLaren (@elginskye) April 6, 2018
I think it’s clear there is a great value in these walk-up activities!
Thanks Doug!
Thanks to Doug the 6040 CNC is installed and running in the space! I hope you enjoy the machine. It’s a great cutter!
The other machines are running like a top too.
To use these machines simply contact us to make arrangements for orientation and scheduling.
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Published on:Â May 15, 2017 @ 15:23
I put a little thought into the Wednesday meetups and here are some ideas. We’ve got our Sunday meetup at the library and that’s awesome so why not have the Wednesday meetups there for the longer term.
The pub idea is a bit wearing. There are people who don’t want to drink or spend money and it’s an ongoing fight with noise. The Barley Moe activity was constantly bumped by reservations trashing many of the meetups and discouraging people from coming. Further I’m not convinced the exposure of our group in pubs is the best audience.
All along the library has been right there and that’s exactly what it’s for so why not use it?
I was already thinking about this while walking down the street Friday afternoon a week ago. I decided to go to the library to sit with my computer for a bit. I walked into a super fun workshop on Chinese calligraphy and made a whole bunch of new friends.
This was so heartwarming and so much fun I decided I wanted to run a few walk-up tables myself. I’ve got a some meetings upcoming with the library to work on this. Perhaps we could coordinate the walk-ups and our meetups and make it a party.
Our meetups have been mostly unstructured and I love that but if we ran walk-ups for the public (and ourselves) I think it could make it even more fun.
