Events (June 2013)
29-6-13
Public Open Day: June - Strings & Things
Strings and things: Sailors’ ropework expert Des Pawson will be doing a live demo of knotting and rope-making. Come along and have a go at knitting, knotting, wrangling a giant Knitting Nancy and other stringy activities. Get your hands on some of the wonderous substances in our Materials Library.
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25-6-13
Member Event: Make a Folding Knife
Contemporary knifemaker and researcher Grace Horne leads a Masterclass in making a folding knife in a day. An expert in blade shaping and tempering, lock and spring mechanisms and handle design and construction, Grace will show members how to construct and finish the parts of a knife.
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04-6-13
Member Event: Arduino - Interactive Objects
To make our creations interactive or animated, we often need to build in electronics or programmability. This used to be the preserve of electronic engineers, but in the last decade the Arduino has changed all that. Arduino is a simple, very cheap computer specialized for interacting with the real world. This introductory workshop is aimed at makers with minimal electronic or programming skills, and led by Mark Handley, inventor and UCL’s Robotics Programming specialist.
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