Guildford Makerspace

We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be running a workshop at this local music & arts festival, creating a Guildford inspired piece of interactive fiction – a digital choose your own adventure with many story paths. If you’re attending the festival you’ll be able to contribute and see it grow as others add their own words, pictures & ideas to the story. We hope to see you there. Website: http://www.alwaysthesunfestival.co.uk

Mozfest is an event happening in London from 28-30 th October. It’s a diverse, highly interactive event with something for everyone, including a science fair of inspiring ideas and projects, and participant led-sessions, including interactive sessions where participants can learn something new or share their knowledge; small group breakout discussions where bright minds debate the most pressing issues facing the Internet today; or design sprints dedicated to hands-on making, hacking and producing a ‘thing’. You can find out more about Mozfest here: https://mozillafestival.org/   This video will also give you an idea of what happened at previous Mozfest events .    We’ve submitted a proposal for a session focused on interactive/digital storytelling, and the organisers of the Mozfest Youth Zone are still looking for submissions, so we thought some of you might like to submit an idea too, including sessions run by young people and children. So, do you know or have you a you...

Read, Watch, Play is an online reading group and on the last Tuesday of each month a different theme is discussed.  The theme this month is  #geekread  and includes reading the latest sci-fi blockbuster - City of mirrors  by Justin Cronin; watching boxed sets of your favourite show - Star trek trilogy  or playing a fantasy role playing game - Dungeons and Dragons  for instance, it all encompasses Read, Watch, Play. Join us @SurreyLibraries on Twitter for #rwpchat on Tuesday 30 August from 9am-11am and 2pm-4pm.  Use the tags #geekread and #rwpchat as you tweet so that others can join in the conversation too.  You can follow the discussion on Twitter @ReadWatchPlay  checkout Surrey Libraries Read, Watch, Play Pinterest board  or our blog  for ideas.  Or just read a book about this month's theme to join in. #rwpchat

Thursday 4 August, 10am–12 noon and 1–3pm. Explore 3D design with  Tinkercad and 3D print your own key ring or cookie cutter. Would you like to be a paper engineer? We’ll show you how to create your own pop-up cards! Suitable for children aged 9 to 13. Places are limited. Book early to avoid disappointment. Book basic 3D design online (Image Credit: Creative Tools  CC BY 2.0) #digifriday

Saturday 30 July, 10am–12 noon and 1–3pm. Come along and learn, play and program three kinds of robots. Use colours to code the Ozobot , find a way for the Mbot to go around the obstacle course and teach the  Meccanoid G15 your best dance steps!   Suitable for children aged 9 to 13. Places are limited. Book early to avoid disappointment. Book introduction to robotics online #digifriday

Thursday 28 July, 10am–12 noon and 1–3pm. In this workshop you will get the chance to learn about electronics, design and customise an invention with littleBits . You will also get to learn how to code and create an interactive (banana, Play-Doh or foil paper) controller with Makey Makey . Suitable for children aged 9 to 13. Places are limited. Book early to avoid disappointment. Book electronics for beginners online (Image credit: Ultra-lab CC BY-SA 2.0 ) #digifriday

Read, Watch, Play is an online reading group and on the last Tuesday of each month a different theme is discussed.  The theme this month is  #artread and includes looking at art books for inspiration while painting your own masterpiece; reading a novel about art Notes from an exhibition by Patrick Gale; watching a film about an artist Woman in gold or playing an album which has cool artwork on its cover; it all encompasses Read, Watch, Play. Join us @SurreyLibraries on twitter for #rwpchat on Tuesday 26 July from 9am-11am and 2pm-4pm.  Use the tags #artread and #rwpchat as you tweet so that others can join in the conversation too.  You can follow the discussion on Twitter @ReadWatchPlay checkout Surrey Libraries Read, Watch, Play Pinterest board or our blog for ideas.  Or just read a book about this month's theme to join in. #rwpchat