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

Thu Apr 5 07:15:22 CDT 2012

Tony, the booth will be indoors in fluorescent light. If you want to know
more about the lighting, they said we could go take a look at it. They
could get us into the venue. I'd just need to know what to look for.

JSR/

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Tony Buser <tbuser at gmail.com> 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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