MakeLV @ the Science Festival is looking really good.<br><br><i>If you would like to be involved, there are a few opportunities below.</i><br><br>This will be a great chance to become visible in the community. This Thursday (tomorrow) we will have a mock-up of the booth.<br>
<br><b>What we have: </b><ul><li>booth space that can fit an 8' table. Dimensions are uncertain.<br></li><li>A blinky Hive4a sign (Thanks Jim!)<br></li><li>Plans to teach soldering (Using the MakerShed kit, Thank Jim & Tom!)<br>
</li><li>Passing out information on soldering </li>
<li>A few people to man the booth</li><li>Tables and power</li><li>Camera to show soldering in the background</li><li>Setup ED (<a href="http://projects.josiahritchie.com/projects/ed" target="_blank">http://projects.josiahritchie.com/projects/ed</a>) for folks to play with.</li>
</ul><p style="margin-left:40px">Dave sent out the flyer or you can see it on the blog: <a href="http://makelehighvalley.com/blog/2012/04/science-festival-of-the-lehigh-valley/" target="_blank">http://makelehighvalley.com/blog/2012/04/science-festival-of-the-lehigh-valley/</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-left:40px">The Exhibitor Guide is also available: <a href="http://www.davincisciencecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Science-Festival-Lehigh-Valley-Carnival-Exhibitor-Guide.pdf">http://www.davincisciencecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Science-Festival-Lehigh-Valley-Carnival-Exhibitor-Guide.pdf</a>. 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.)<br>
</p><p><b>What we need </b><i>(if you can help with one of these, please let us know)</i><b>:</b></p><ul><li>More small demos to put around and show what's going on. (see Project Ideas below)</li><li>More people to hang around the table for an hour or longer between 10am and 4pm.</li>
<li>A system to schedule people to get in on the soldering tutorial.</li><li>A method of taking payments for the soldering tutorial.<br></li><li>A card or something small with our website on it to give people who come by. (Dan's Camera?)<br>
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<li>Equipment check - make sure we have everything to safely teach soldering classes.</li></ul><b>Project Ideas</b><br>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...<br>
<ul><li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li><li>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.</li>
<li>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 <br></li><li>Lemon Battery</li><li>Home-made Electro magnet</li><li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li><li>
Your Idea: If you have something that hits your fancy, I'm all for it.</li><li>Astronomy: (Chris Callie?)</li><li>Chemistry:</li></ul><p></p><div><b>People to Attend the Booth</b><br><div style="margin-left:40px">I'm shamelessly stealing this from Ellis' earlier email... The event is on April 14th (10a-4p).<br>
<br>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):</div></div>
<div style="margin-left:40px">1/3 day Shift: 9:30-12, 12-2, 2-4:30</div><div style="margin-left:40px">1/2 day Shift: 9:30-1, 1-4:30<br><br></div>This information will be kept up-to-date on the wiki: <br><a href="http://makelehighvalley.com/wiki/ScienceFestival2012">http://makelehighvalley.com/wiki/ScienceFestival2012</a><br>
<div style="margin-left:40px"><br></div>JSR/<br><br>-- <br><br><a href="http://about.me/josiah" target="_blank">http://about.me/josiah</a><br><br>