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Robot Hackday

Robot HACKDAY

Title: Robot Hackday
Location: MadLab
Description: Bring your old electronic junk and toys down to Madlab. Take them apart and put them back together again as… robots!
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2010-10-30
End Time: 16:00
Audience: Everyone
Price: Free. Booking required!
Event Themes: Bright ideas
Event Type: Workshop/Hands-on/Demo

Work on your own or team up with others – there will be prizes at the end of the day for the best entries. Don’t worry if your robot building skills are not up to scratch, we have experts to guide your robots.

This year we have  Adrian from Howduino, HACMan and a mystery guest will be there throughout the day to give you a hand.

MadLab is proud to run Robot Hackday again. Here are some pictures from last years event for inspiration.
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Robot Hackday is part of this year’s bigger and better Manchester Science Festival, entertaining the region from 23 – 31 October.

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5 Responses to “Robot Hackday”

  1. brokebust says:
    11 October 2010 at 16:53

    This looks ace… booked!

    I have an idea for what I want to do, which is hopefully quite simple, is there anyone I could email about it before the date? I’m guessing I’ll need to get some components!

    I’d love to come down on one Wednesday also but that’s a bad day for me so it might not be possible : /

  2. Ivan says:
    23 October 2010 at 08:59

    Hi my Son who is 10 and high functioning ASD really wants to come to Robot Hackday and loads of other manchester science festival activities would this still be suitable for us? All he wants to be is an inventor or a futuristic musician, please could you let me know, many thanks

  3. natalie says:
    8 November 2010 at 16:19

    Robot Hackday 2010
    Here are some photos from the Robot Hackday

  4. Hwa Young Jung says:
    22 November 2010 at 19:08

    Here’s what Jim had to say about the day.

    People bring down old electronic junk and attempt to make automata out of them. We succeeded in making an army of wonderful robots, from scribblebots and shaking Altoids tins to furry tanks with glowing eyes. It was great to have a bit of banter with other hackers as we tried to get a robot ready within the day.

    Glad you enjoyed it!

  5. Five on a Friday with … MadLab’s Hwa Young Jung, innovator and fairy geek mother. says:
    16 July 2011 at 11:00

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