Glow your own (5/6) (2024)

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Join in today (previous sessions on-demand) and get ready for the Oxford Light Festival, creating your very own moving lantern.

Get ready for the Oxford Light Festival by 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, using tools like Tinkercad to combine art and engineering.

Workshop 5 gets crafty with several ideas for making your LED Lantern. Examples are up-cycled egg boxes and using reflective or translucent packaging as materials, and other paper items from the recycling box with ideas for the upcoming Oxford Light Festival (15-17 November 2024). It demonstrated how to create LED extension wires and gave some ideas for basic cycles of code in Tinkercad.

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

Six live video sessions will be recorded to watch again on if-oxford.com

If you want to buy your own kit from Amazon, this is what you need:Complete kit (Arduino and components) CHECKED AS CORRECT 30 October 2024

Run by IF Oxford and supported by STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UKAEA, Science Oxford, Fusion Arts and Oxford City Council

Download the Glow Your Own Star Map: session 5 (PDF)

Watch Glow Your Own 2024: session 5 (of 6)

You can use the Jumper Wires in your Arduino kit or use insulated wrapping wire to extend the legs of your components, eg.: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=wrapping+wire+electrical&crid=16DFTBJGYOI5V&sprefix=wrapping+wire+electrical%2Caps%2C142&ref=nb_sb_noss

See more information here: https://if-oxford.com/glow-your-own-info

Visit the Glow Your Own index page: https://if-oxford.com/gyo

Join in today (previous sessions on-demand) 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. Receive an Arduino starter kit (sent to UK addresses by post) and use tools like Tinkercad to combine art and engineering.

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

See more information here: https://if-oxford.com/glow-your-own-info