Teacher Trainning presentation at UEF

On Monday 14.09 we had the opportunity to give a presentation of our work and visions to teachers of North Karelia. This teachers training session was organized by LUMA center, from UEF.

The event was  GREAT !!!!
The teachers were amazing, they did incredible work in short period of time and we got valuable feedback and ideas.

 Unfortunately, I do not have a picture of the three of us:

• Liisa - who has great presenting our club and ideas, 
• Kirsi  -  who organize the whole event and she is a great in handicrafts and our best cheederleader for  F4E
• Carolina - who is writing this :)

There are some photos of us with the participant teachers. But I did not ask the teachers permission to make those photos public. Thus, I cannot publish those photos in this blog. However I can share some of the moments, our presentation, and overall the final results that are GREAT!

Set up

The workshop took place in one laboratory of the University of Eastern Finland.  One table had our showcase and the material for the workshop.  On the side of the "show case" we display some of our on-going projects:  the lamp, the mittens and cards. Even Kirsi shared a creative light-bag :)

On the other side of the table was the material for the teachers  when the moment of hands-on arise. .

Presentation

Liisa took a picture of me when I was presenting.  Love the lab atmosphere, technology on one side  AND on the other side coffee, soda, water and cookies. What else it is needed? :)

We had it all, tools, food and good company with TONS of ideas and knowledge :)

Here goes the presentation:

Fear4Electronics - presentation of our ideas (14.09.15 @ LUMA,) from Carolina Islas Sedano

Hands on 

Honestly a workshop means hands on. At least ALL my workshops are like that.
Here some of the outcomes of our AWESOME teachers:

 This wonderful boat used several technologies, can you detect which ones? :

Other card seen from both sides:

Great time, wonderful feedback and now to continue the journey of F4E

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F4E written by  Carolina Islas (CAIS)

Lamp with a Capacitive Proximity Sensor : Step 1 the physical design

I had been running this project in my "free" time starting this June 2015. Today is the first day I make time to report it.
Why a lamp?

Since long, I want to do something special for my niece. She is 7 years old, and at the moment she still prefers to fall to sleep with some light.  Hence, I decide to make her a special lamp for her. 

 The first stop is the idea. What do I want? 

   

My idea is to let her turn the lamp with just approaching her hand to it. Also, I want the lamp to be personalized with her name. So, with these wishes in my mind, I created the following concept:

It is simple: 

a)  I want the lamp to turn on once a hand approaches the surface. 

To achieve this I will utilize conductive ink and the lilipad (adrudino) to turn the light on. 

b) I want the lamp made of glass. Additionally, I want that after the lamp is off again, it keeps illuminated. For this effect I decided to use phosphorescent paint. Therefore, after the lamp is used, it should keep light for some time. 

Thus in this project I combine different technologies: 

• conductive ink
• phosphorescent paint and
• lilypads.

I will explain each step by posts. But now in this this post I will explain the physical design. 

Step 1: Materials

 

- 1 jar or glass. This will be the lamp perse. 

- phosphorescent pain 

- pincel to apply all (no picture) 

- conductive pain 

- masking tape (no picture) 

Step 2: Handicraft deign (visuals) 

For this lamp,  I want the name of my niece in big. To save conductive paint, I decided that her name is the area painted with conductive paint. The rest of the area is the phosphorescent paint.
First I wrote the name outside the jar with the masking tape to serve as a guide. Follow, I paint the letters inside the glass follow the conductive paint.

 It is important to notice that all the letters are connected between each other. Meaning, all the black area is one complete piece of conductive paint.

Afterwards the conductive paint was dry, I paint the rest with phosphorescent paint.

Mmmmmm, I am not the best painter, and the photo shows it even worse. The phosphorescent paint is not THAT easy, but this is my first try. 

At the end it looks like this: 

Next post about the circuit! :) 

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F4E written by  Carolina Islas (CAIS)