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

Wed Apr 4 15:08:22 CDT 2012

Also, AEDC is paying for two tables, adjacent to each other. I am thinking that we will not use TOO much space on our side, so there will be opportunities for Make LV to spread out.
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On Apr 4, 2012, at 3:49 PM, Tony Buser wrote:

> 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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