Shrimping Workshops

Photo0251_airbrushedYou’ve just missed a great workshop! On 30th November 2014 @ShrimpingIt and Lancaster City Council’s Beyond the Castle invited more than twenty people to build Persistence of Vision toys and begin the journey to inventing their own devices as part of HackLancaster in former Prison Block A at Lancaster Castle.

If you can host us at a group or school venue within the 6 parishes of Morecambe, we can offer a free 3 hour workshop including free hardware to take home with the support of Morecambe Town Council. By giving the boards and knowledge to interested experimenters locally, we hope to create a critical mass to weave digital hackery into the air we breathe, just as naturally as our beaches, kitesurfing and beautiful Lake District views!

Equivalent workshops for students or teachers are available throughout the UK at commercial rates. Once you’re familiar with @ShrimpingIt, you can run classes yourselves, just like Lancaster and Morecambe College, Lancaster Grammar School, Ironbridge Gorge Museum and many others have already done.

Typical guided builds in workshops take roughly 1.5 hours going through inspiring videos, learning electronics and software fundamentals, building and programming a Shrimp, or a prepared @ShrimpingIt project.

We’re especially keen to see teachers and other educators (hackspaces, code clubs) learning how to source the parts independently to supply workshops for themselves. Most of workshops are based on the Persistence of Vision project but we’re interested in running builds of the brand-new Simon Memory game too. Next in line is our breadboard version of the ShrimpKey.

Shrimping workshops and exhibitions have so far taken place at West End Impact (Morecambe Arts Group), Lancaster University Infolab, BBC Live in Leeds the Maker Faire UK (Newcastle), Mendrs conference, iTech (Manchester Science Week), Barcamp Blackpool, Hacked.io, Oggcamp, Barcamp Blackpool, Howduino, Hack to the Future, Bridge Rectifier Hebden Bridge, at Madlab sponsored by the Ideas Foundation at Derby school (making Raspberry PI-driven python and bluetooth robots) and also at West End Impact as part of  the Patchworks project, supported by Catalyst.

Get in touch if you want to be notified of future scheduled events.

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