LTC at Make: Day
On Saturday, March 14, Make: Day comes to the Science Museum of Minnesota!
The Learning Technologies Center will be hosting several activities and demos at the event, including:
- Flash and Glow: Make amazing, glowing shadows in this activity, using glow-in-the-dark paper, flashes, penlights, and all kinds of materials.
Learn how you can try it at home.
- Musical Sponges: Use sponges, water, and Scratch software to make incredible music. Take a peek at how this activity works, and learn more about the Learning Technologies Center's Scratch workshops, events, and programs.
- Asia Ward's Kinetic Creatures: Asia Ward is a kinetic sculptor (and Science Museum staff member) who makes amazing kinetic sculptures from battery-powered toys, stuffed animals, and other materials.
Learn more about Asia's work, and watch for Toy Take-Apart: one of Learning Technologies Center summer classes for 9-12 year olds inspired by Asia's sculptures.
- Janet Groenert's Digital Wearables: Janet Groenert is a fiber artist (and a Science Museum staff member) who has recently made several works that incorporate electronics, including LEDs, buzzers, and the Arduino Lilypad.
Learn more about Janet's work, and about High Fashion Low Voltage: an upcoming Learning Technologies Class class for adults, using the Arduino Lilypad.
- Youth from Design Team, Invention Crew, Fluid Team, and Water Crew (several of the teams in the museum's Kitty Andersen Youth Science Center) will be presenting a variety of activities and projects that incorporate technology, design, art, and engineering.
- Interactive Projection Drawings via Nintendo Wii-mote We will be posting instructions so you can make your very own interactive projected drawing system using a Nintendo Wii remote and an infrared light. In the meantime, learn more about the project and download the free software used to connect your computer to your Wii-mote at Johnny Chung Lee's webpage. The software used to generate the art is also free, it is called Processing.
