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An experimental interaction design/soft toy hacking workshop ran during Easter for a group of girls aged 8-11.

* This is the full version of 'Children's Arduino workshop'. See vimeo.com/groups/13084/videos/4187008 for quick overview.

Read more and see the pictures here - seaweedstudio.co.uk/eat/archives/65

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  • ian kennedy 7 months ago
    This is super great.
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  • Memo Akten plus 6 months ago
    absolutely amazing! I love it!
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  • Kyle McDonald 6 months ago
    Metaphor: "Could you put it in it's head like a brain?"
    The joy of interactive art: "Ah, that's so cool!"
    The joy of conceptual art: "I love diagrams!"
    Hacking consumer devices: "We could just attach it to a remote control car."
    Developing scripts: "When sensor is deactivated by..."
    The frustration of similarity: "My idea was to do a walking dog!"

    There is so much here. This is like the entire media art scene rolled into one six-minute video.
  • Gabriel Shalom plus 6 months ago
    I met a six year old yesterday who owns her own palm pilot, was learning Adobe Illustrator and knew what the words opaque, transparent and translucent meant.
  • Memo Akten plus 6 months ago
    Kyle, don't forget the "Yes, but what does it signify?" !
  • Kyle McDonald 6 months ago
    Oh yeah, I'm always forgetting that one... :) Reminds me of a recent hackaday post: "Why don’t artists just say they did it because it looks cool?"
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  • Teeps 6 months ago
    This is the definition of heartening.
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  • Jasper van Loenen 6 months ago
    Amazing :) I wish I had such a workshop when I was little...
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  • Soxiam staff 6 months ago
    awesome video. these girls will rule the world.
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  • Michael Crumpton 6 months ago
    Very interesting and exciting. While I think the Arduino is a great piece of hardware, most of the stuff the kids wanted to do seemed simple enough to do without a microprocessor, and could be done with 5 dollars worth of components instead of a $35 processor programmed by a $300+ computer. I only say this because if you were trying to do this in a larger group, the costs add up fast.
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  • batuhan 5 months ago
    This is great!

    - So you can program it!!? Told you you can program sequences into it!

    Seems like we'll become obsolete faster than any other generation ever lived.
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