SoftBots & OverheadBots with "derstrudel" and Ralf Schreiber, Ljubljana



=OverheadBots=

Workshops leaders:

Ralf Schreiber & Christian Faubel (DE)

Assistants:

Kristijan Tkalec

info for the LabBook
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Workshop
Overheadbots (no Translation for title)

Authors: Ralf Schreiber (DE) & Christian Faubel (DE)

Short Description (please translate and use english and slovenian
In the Overheadbots workshop you create a tiny solar robot that harvest its energy from the light of an overhead projector. Whenever the robot has collected enough energy it makes a pulsed movement. Through the projection this movement and the robots shadow appear as real-time animated shadow play. The workshop has two parts, first a technical part and second a design part. In the technical part you solder the electronic circuit. In the design part you work on the shape  of the robot and the image that is produced through the projection.

Glossary
solar energy, phototaxis, braitenberg vehicles

Main Used Materials
(group with subtitles)

General Tools

Target Participants
girls and boys 8-10 years, mostly participants from the younger range expected.

'''What about younger kids? we usually expect 8-10 year old ones aswell...'''

Schedule (number of days)
Saturday, 18. May, 11 - 16h (including lunch break, food provided by organizers)

1. Introduction to electronics
What are the components, how do they work?
 * what is a capacitor?
 * what is a resistor?
 * what is a transistor?
 * what is a LED?

2. Soldering the circuit

 * short introduction to soldering
 * safety instructions
 * participants cooperate in teams to solder their own circuit
 * finally test the circuit on the overhead projector

3. Designing the robot

 * Experiment with the body and how it influences the movement of the robot
 * Work with the projection, develop new shapes and forms.

4. Final assembly and presentation

 * At the end, we will admire the shadow play

Location
BioTehna lab and Kiberpipa

=SoftBots=

Workshops Team:

Christian Faubel (DE), Kris, Marc Dusseiller, Ralf Schreiber

Workshop
SoftBots

Main Used Materials
(group with subtitles)

General Tools

Target Participants
artists, workshopologists, students, hackers and all open minded people interested in explorations of minimal bio-inspired robotics

Schedule
Monday, 20. May 17 - 20h

Location
BioTehna Lab, inside Kiberpipa, Kersnikova 6, 1000 Ljubljana

Links of general interest

 * Nature - Synthetic analog computation in living cells
 * Cell biology: The cellular hullabaloo
 * NanoŠmano - LifeSystems