Maker week was busy enough today that I mostly took photos of the empty lab at the end of the day, like the abandoned soldering table at the top of this post. However, here’s Jess in flow making turntables, and Chris in deep code: Turntables were most definitely on the menu today, with Jess, Lauren and Sarah completing at least a dozen: […]
A quiet day today, with family commitments reducing the turn-out. Nevertheless, Joe’s particularly proud of getting the colour-changing lamps to work. My still photo above really doesn’t do them justice. We’ve assembled the two ends of the pendulum support structure. Look at the size of that thing! We now have a working turntable design which is slow […]
A day of concentration, quiet focus, and trying to work out whether there’s any limit to Lauren’s new-found obsession with Sonic Pi. Turns out: nope, five hours straight wasn’t nearly enough time to exhaust her fascination. Today was a bit of a skills day. Soldering (note to self: next time, buy the kits with the pre-programmed PIC controllers. […]
The intrepid members of Think Club 0 – our trial of a maker club – today began preparations for Maker Faire UK in a couple of weekends’ time. We’ve several projects to show, including a couple of physics/arts installation pieces. I’ve previously posted about early efforts with the pendulum wave, and we’ll come back to that later in the week. Today, […]
Think Physics won’t be passing comment on individual party policies during the election. However, the British Science Association have recently published this set of interviews with science spokespeople from some the UK’s major parties, which allows us to neatly side-step any endorsement or criticism of a particular platform. For a little more information on the interviews, the BSA have an […]
Our partners the Centre for Life today launched their new Experiment Zone – a space for exploration and practical science. We were delighted to be there to join the celebrations, and see CBBC science specialist Fran Scott doing her thing: The purpose of the event, though, was to see the new zone in action. It’s a laboratory space, but […]
One of the projects Think Physics is partnered with is Explore Your Universe, a national campaign celebrating the physical sciences and run by the Association for Science & Discovery Centres and the Science and Technology Facilities Council. We’re delivering a range of workshops and activities, and on Saturday we capped off a frenetic British Science Week by hosting […]
We’ve had a predictably hectic first British Science Week here in Think Lab and around the region. We’ll catch up with reporting next week once we’ve had a bit of a lie down in a darkened room, but speaking of darkened: you might have noticed the solar eclipse this morning. We were out on the Northumbria […]
Andrew has invented the ANNOY-O-TRON!! It’s in block capitals and has two exclamation marks, to be particularly annoying. A development of the previous instrumented pendulum, the ANNOY-O-TRON!! features several key advances: Annoyingly many ‘compile / wait / upload / wait / fail / turn off / wait / turn back on / wait’ cycles. Annoying choice of annoyingly loud GarageBand synthesised instrument. […]
