[MakeLV] Science Festival plans: Looking Good...

[Tony Buser]

Hey, I tried to get MakerBot to be a sponsor, but it kind of fell through.
However, I'd like to personally bring my MakerBot if you guys have room?
Perhaps I could show 3D scanning people using a Kinect (is it indoors?  I
know the kinect has trouble with sunlight).  See:
http://www.thingiverse.com/tbuser/things

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Josiah Ritchie <josiah at josiahritchie.com>wrote:

> MakeLV @ the Science Festival is looking really good.
>
> *If you would like to be involved, there are a few opportunities below.*
>
> This will be a great chance to become visible in the community. This
> Thursday (tomorrow) we will have a mock-up of the booth.
>
> *What we have: *
>
>    - booth space that can fit an 8' table. Dimensions are uncertain.
>    - A blinky Hive4a sign (Thanks Jim!)
>    - Plans to teach soldering (Using the MakerShed kit, Thank Jim & Tom!)
>    - Passing out information on soldering
>    - A few people to man the booth
>    - Tables and power
>    - Camera to show soldering in the background
>    - Setup ED (http://projects.josiahritchie.com/projects/ed) for folks
>    to play with.
>
> Dave sent out the flyer or you can see it on the blog:
> http://makelehighvalley.com/blog/2012/04/science-festival-of-the-lehigh-valley/
> .
>
> The Exhibitor Guide is also available:
> http://www.davincisciencecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Science-Festival-Lehigh-Valley-Carnival-Exhibitor-Guide.pdf.
> This states that we have an 8-foot table, 2 chairs and a booth with three
> sides. Matthew is getting two booths and this space he is sharing with us.
> I have some fold-up tables that could be contributed to the purpose. We
> should have electricity and Internet access (I believe we asked for that.)
>
> *What we need **(if you can help with one of these, please let us know)**:
> *
>
>    - More small demos to put around and show what's going on. (see
>    Project Ideas below)
>    - More people to hang around the table for an hour or longer between
>    10am and 4pm.
>    - A system to schedule people to get in on the soldering tutorial.
>    - A method of taking payments for the soldering tutorial.
>    - A card or something small with our website on it to give people who
>    come by. (Dan's Camera?)
>     - Equipment check - make sure we have everything to safely teach
>    soldering classes.
>
> *Project Ideas*
> If you would like to create a simple interactive something, but don't have
> any ideas, here are some I don't expect to have time to implement...
>
>    - Fiber Optics: I have a sturdy fiber optic cable that visibly passes
>    light, some strong colorful LEDs setup to shine color through or a small
>    color screen that folks could hold one end of the fiber up to then see it
>    come out the other would show off fiber tech.
>    - Conductivity: A simple circuit to trigger a light with a variety of
>    materials to test for conductivity. Will it light if I put a feather, a
>    spoon, wood, rubber and other things in the circuit.
>    - I have code for an Arduino and a number pad from an electronic
>    battleship game that makes lots of tunes on a piezo. I don't have an
>    Arduino that is free at the moment. I also don't have a sturdy enough case
>    to put this on display.
>    - Resistor Demo: A simple circuit that would enable people to swap out
>    resistors in one place to see how it impacted the brightness of an LED
>    - Lemon Battery
>    - Home-made Electro magnet
>    - Photoresistor: A simple circuit to light up an LED according to how
>    much resistance a photoresistor provides - maybe one of the 555 circuits
>    that we did earlier could be adapted to this to be even a bit more advanced.
>    - Solar Power: Something based on solar power could hit a trending
>    interest. This could be as easy as having one of the solar lights in the
>    space torn apart and laid out with some labels to explain how it works.
>    - Your Idea: If you have something that hits your fancy, I'm all for
>    it.
>    - Astronomy: (Chris Callie?)
>    - Chemistry:
>
> *People to Attend the Booth*
> I'm shamelessly stealing this from Ellis' earlier email... The event is on
> April 14th (10a-4p).
>
> Please respond if you can commit to being there.  We will need 3+ people
> there at a time so we can also rotate wandering around the event itself.
>  If you wish to volunteer for a shift, please specify one of the following
> (1/2 hour extra for setup and take down):
> 1/3 day Shift: 9:30-12, 12-2, 2-4:30
> 1/2 day Shift: 9:30-1, 1-4:30
>
> This information will be kept up-to-date on the wiki:
> http://makelehighvalley.com/wiki/ScienceFestival2012
>
> JSR/
>
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