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Xmas lectures this year - how to hack your home

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YonicScrewdriver · 02/12/2014 14:58

I hope to remember to watch it for once!!

A revolution is happening. Across the world people are taking control of the devices we use every day, customising them, creating new things and using the sparks of their imagination to change the world. Now it’s your turn, and you can start with the things you have around you.

Electrical and electronics engineer, Prof Danielle George will take three great British inventions - a light bulb, a telephone and a motor - and show you how to adapt them and transform them to do extraordinary things. This is tinkering for the 21st century, using the full array of cutting edge devices that we can lay our hands on: 3D printers, new materials, online collaboration and controlling devices through coding.

Inspired by the great inventors and standing on the shoulders of thousands of people playing at their kitchen table or in their shed, Danielle will announce the new rules of invention and show you how to use modern tools and technologies and things from your home to have fun and make a difference to the world around you.

Anything could happen. Sparks will fly.

www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures

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FunkyBoldRibena · 02/12/2014 15:02

I love the christmas lectures. Usually watch them in front of the fire all snug. Smashing.

SunshineBossaNova · 02/12/2014 20:03

Thanks for the link, I love these lectures.

YonicSleighdriver · 08/01/2015 23:47

Just watching them now on iplayer, very good!

YonicSleighdriver · 08/01/2015 23:48

ooh, there's an associated Fun Day in half term

Family Fun Day: Sparks will fly
Saturday 21 February, Drop in between 11.00am and 4.00pm
The 2014 CHRISTMAS LECTURES are all about taking control of the devices
in your life, using what you have and creating something altogether new and
exciting. Join the revolution! Learn to hack your home and take control at this
Family Fun Day, with opportunities to play, create and transform things around
you. Aimed at ages 6–12 but all ages are welcome.
Tickets: £12/£6 3–18 year olds. Faraday Members go free. Associates and
adult Members can book two free junior tickets.

YonicScrewdriver · 19/01/2015 22:38

Pants, I can't go now, we are away!

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