A slot in the cardboard cap fits tightly on the motor shaft, then hot glue poured into the tubing fixes it well enough. The drive pulley is a short length of plastic tubing with a cardboard end-cap. There’s enough torque to work reasonably well, and undervolting it slows it down even before you get to the gearing. The core is a geared 3–6V motor, driven off a single 1.5V cell. They do tend to fall apart in transit, but a minute’s ministrations with a glue gun solves that. The old exhibit standby of ‘if it looks fragile, people treat it with care if it looks solid, they’ll whack the heck out of it’ seems to apply. They turn slowly (about 1rpm) and despite looking pathetically fragile have proven quite robust in use. Since I didn’t know that, I ended up reverse-engineering something which didn’t exist in the first place. Since I’ve never done the Exploratorium’s workshop personally I just assumed they’d made their own, but compiling this page I’ve realised they seem to be using jewellery display turntables, like these or this. But they need to turn slowly, which is a challenge. To bring a little motion to the boxes, it’s worth having a few motorised components, like turntables. These events are free, but please book a place by contacting the or telephone 01 Solar physics for families: presentation with Dr Helen Mason and family workshop with Helen Schell Presentations and discussions with Dr Gert Botha and Dr Stephane Regnier (Northumbria University Solar Group), Helen Schell, Richard Talbot (Head of Fine Art, Newcastle University), Dr Helen Mason (Sun|trek, Cambridge University) and Dr Carol Davenport (Think Physics, Northumbria University) Saturday, 3 October 2-4pm The exhibition is being held at Vane Gallery, First Floor Commercial House, 39 Pilgrim St, Newcastle Events for adults and families. The exhibition is open from 10 September – 3 October 2015, In creating the artwork for this exhibition, Helen has worked with solar physicists, Dr Gert Botha, Dr Stephane Regnier from Northumbria University, and Dr Helen Mason from Cambridge University. Inspired by the Sun and Space, Helen uses optical illusions to express phenomena of space. Yellow Giant is an exhibition by Helen Schell. Want to get a better idea of what the Faire’s about? A few years ago I filmed Make magazine founder Dale Dougherty as he took a wander while it was still quiet on the Sunday: What will we do for 2017? Watch this space!īetter still, sign up to the mailing list at the Maker Faire UK website, block out that first weekend of April in your diary, book your tickets as soon as they’re available, and – best of all – think whether you or your school have projects you could showcase yourselves, attending as fellow Makers. There’ll be a Call for proposals via the website soon. Both years we ran the beautiful Light Wall activity. This year we showed the Technology Wishing Well, which all worked for the first time about three minutes after the Faire opened. Think Physics built a magnificent pendulum wave sound sculpture for the 2015 Faire, which was accidentally chucked in a skip during renovation works at the University this year. ![]() It’s the biggest, loudest, most ridiculous and longest-running event of its kind in the UK. More than 300 makers, hackers, crafters, coders, artists and inventors from across the globe come together at the Centre for Life to showcase what they do, run workshops and activities, and generally loon around in the name of expressing themselves through things they make. ![]() The greatest show (and tell) on Earth is returning to Newcastle with Maker Faire UK 2017, April 1st-2nd.
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