Recent Doings
Doing:
* Sunday & Monday: repairing SWARM orbs for Google IO, finishing sound design, shelling etc.
* Tuesday: Charlotte’s office hard drive failed. Spent the afternoon and evening recovering
* Wednesday: More hard drive recovery, finished sound design for Orbs. Performed at Google IO with SWARM! (you couldn’t hear the music over the DJ :-((((((((((((((((( )
* Thursday: Attended Google IO, priced out computer for Charlotte’s office, attended Professional VFX Compositing With Adobe After Effects class at Crucible, sat in on German class at Noisebridge with Charlotte for a few minutes
* Friday: more computer help for Charlotte, working on lesson plan for a Crucible class I’m teaching, tidying hundreds of loose-ends emails
The class I’m teaching at the Crucible:
Learn kinetic techniques to design, engineer, and construct a mechanical sculpture, contraption, or gadget with lights and moving parts. Using new and salvaged components, you will learn how motors, lights, and switches work, how to create mechanical structures, how to create different types of motion, and how to incorporate switches to operate your very own fantastical contraption!
8-12 year olds, June 15-19 2009
Cost: $235.00 (Tuition: $180.00, Materials: $55.00), Members: $217.00
[KIN15-Y]
Build a simple remote-controlled robot . From the wheels up, you’ll create your robot’s shape and personality from salvaged components, mechanisms, and electrical components. You’ll also learn soldering, mechanical construction techniques, and how to remove and repurpose these items. Each student will receive a kit of motors, wheels, and a remote control toy.
June 15-19 2009
Cost: $295.00 (Tuition: $220.00, Materials: $75.00), Members: $273.00