Glow Your Own 2025 (5/6)

Bring your own robotic lantern to life with lights, sensors and motors. This friendly workshop series combines creativity and engineering, online and in real life, wherever you are. Use an Arduino, LEDs and simple coding, with guidance every step of the way – this practical course is for adults, teenagers and children. Join six live video sessions or work at your own pace using worksheets and recordings at if-oxford.com. Spark your skills and imagination to create something truly unique!

Glow Your Own is six workshops that will take you from technology trepidation to building a computer circuit that powers your own moving digital lantern

Workshop 5 is all about crafting and making a lantern housing for your Arduino and LEDs. Examples included up-cycled egg boxes and using reflective or translucent packaging materials, and other items from the recycling box. We’ll show you how to create LED extension wires so you can be even more creative with your projects.

Download the Glow Your Own Star Map (PDF)

Watch Glow Your Own 2025 session 5 of 6

You book for the whole course when you sign up (and may attend as many sessions as you like, or are able)

Join in live (with sessions recorded for on-demand watching) and get ready for the Oxford Light Festival, creating your very own moving lantern. This weekly workshop series will help you build your own creative circuit with sensors that control LEDs and motors.

Glow Your Own uses Arduino and use tools like Tinkercad to combine art and engineering. See more information here: https://if-oxford.com/glow-your-own-info

Six live video sessions on Wednesdays, recorded to watch again on if-oxford.com

Wed 15 October: 5 – 6.30pm

Wed 22 October: 5 – 6.30pm

Wed 29 October: 5 – 6.30pm

Wed 5 November: 5 – 6.30pm

Wed 12 November: 5 – 6.30pm

Wed 19 November: 5 – 6.30pm

You will be sent an email reminder ahead of each session with full lesson details. Don’t worry if you miss one – all six workshops will be recorded and later available on-demand at if-oxford.com

Please book one ticket per device (household).

Suitable for ages 7-12, teenagers and adults. We recommend families work together.

Run by IF Oxford and supported by STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UKAEA, Oxford North, UK Electronics Skills Foundation, Fusion Arts and Oxford City Council