Norwich Science Festival 2021

The day they really want us to cover is Tuesday 26th October, which is "Engineering Day".

It's worth remembering that this will be half-term, so lots of excited children about.

We need to start setting up early, from 7:30am and be ready by 9am.

Between 9:30am and 10:30 is advertised as "Quiet Hour" in the exploratorium, next door, so we might need to be careful with what equipment is running at this time.

At past Forum events people start drifing in around 9am till 5pm, but it's 10am till 4pm that is most busy.

Area Setup

Total Area about 4m x 3m, two power sockets (we need to bring extention leads), they have wi-fi (Library and Forum,) they can provide tables.

Food / Drink wise, the Forum has an excellent coffee shop and they have never been bothered about taking cups to the stands.

Equipment to bring on day

It will probably be best to set this up at the Hackspace a few days ahead as everything has to be moved to the Forum either very late the day before or very early morning on the day. Ideally, we want to move everything in as quickly as possible.

• LoRa / 4G / WiFi Gateway
• 2 x Monitors (Scratch / Arduino?)
• Lender Ender 3D Printer
  • Spare Filament

Member Attendance

• Alan Childs - Setup, Everyday, all hours
• Tom G - Setup, Everyday, all hours

Member Projects On Display

• Alan C - Oscilloscope and Servo using Scratch programming

• Dan R - Laser cut violin
• Tom G - Would prefer to only do one day. Can bring 8-bit computer. I also have the line following robot which I built for the local scout group. The kids just need to

  stick black insulation tape to the floor and the robot will follow it.
 It runs off a atmel 1288p-pu and boots straight to BASIC. The BASIC is very very basic with very few instructions and no floating point numbers.

• Barny R - I'm off work that week, so I'll either be about or i'll be away. If I'm about, I could bring in the Pen plotter as well.
• Toby C - Light up sign. clap to change the animation and program with blocks.