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Transit of Venus
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012SURVEY-TASTIC
Tuesday, April 24th, 2012We’ve got two short surveys we’d like your help with please:
The annual feedback form is a forum to give your views on the MadLab – what you loved and what we can improve. Your opinions will direct how MadLab is developed in the future and help us raise funds in order to keep all MadLab’s activities free or heavily subsidised. We’re particularly keen to know about new ideas MadLab’s helped spark, personal or professional development as well as how you’ve used skills learnt at MadLab in other contexts
The DIY Bio MCR form will help us to do more of the science-y stuff we’ve been running this year. We’d love to hear your ideas. Even if you’ve not attended yet, please feel free to tell us what you think about DIY Bio and citizen science.
Thank you!
DIY Bio MCR: The Future…
Thursday, April 19th, 2012
PCR Challenge
In the last year, over 350 people have dissected octopuses, made fuel cells with soil from Northern Quarter car parks, attended the UK’s first DIY Bio summit, gotten to grips with PCR machines and pipetting or roamed the streets of Manchester swabbing bus-stops for bacteria. They’ve seen malarial jewellery at the Microbiology and Art exhibition, quaffed beer and kimchi at the microbial picnic and bred Malaysian Trumpet snails (RIP).
All this was made possible by funding from the Wellcome Trust and the help of MMU. Shortly after the unveiling of the Manchester Microbe Map at Future Everything in May, the project will come to a close.
BUT! We are going to continue as DIY Bio Mcr and we need your feedback in order to raise further funding and make the changes you want to see.
Please can you take five minutes to fill in this survey. Even if you’ve not been to DIY Bio Mcr yet, we’re keen to hear your thoughts.
Give us an H: HTML music video featured in the Manchester Evening News
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
Give me an H
We are excited to be featured in the Manchester Evening News about the HTML music video created by @mariaprohyena.
This video promoting the Web Design Foundations Course taught by Chris Mills has gained an impressive amount of attention, including some remixes. We are happy to see MadLab’s fame as a place for realising ideas, however crazy they are, spread. The article called “Give us an H: ‘Geeks’ create hit song and video spelling out what HTML computer language means” gives a bit more background information about the creative output of MadLab’s geeks.
Thanks again for everyone who took part in creating this hit. Big thanks to @samscam for the music and @DeShannon for the choreography and Hanna, Sarah and @paddysteer for knowing the moves.
The next course: Web design foundations 2: HTML Basics is on in a week on Monday, the 23rd of April. The second part teaches all the HTML you’ll need to make your way into web design and development with confidence! From text to tables, and links to images, this course has it all. It is a perfect possibility in getting started with creating your own identity on the web.
Book your place here.
If you haven’t seen the video yet, here it is:
VVVV follow-up
Thursday, April 5th, 2012Elliot Woods and Omniversity joined forces for the second time to run the VVVV + MapTools : introduction to the tools of projection mapping course in March 2012.
We’re looking forward to seeing what type of projects attendees will create with their newly gained skills! We’ve already had news from Stuart at the The Neighbourhood. He’s created a Cubic Light Tree which you can see in the video at the bottom of this post.
VVVV is a hybrid graphical/textual programming environment for easy prototyping and development. It is designed to facilitate the handling of large media environments with physical interfaces, real-time motion graphics, audio and video that can interact with many users simultaneously.
We are planning to run the course again later this year. If you are interested in this course, please join our mailing list for further updates or e-mail office@madlab.org.uk and we’ll let you know as soon as dates are announced..
Stuart:
With some clever geometric tomfoolery in our blacked out R&D grotto, we created a physical tree made from white boxes, that our designers could use to project their own animated creations back onto.
