Update on the Farmbot

I wish to extend my sincere thanks to the keen group of community members who have supported the Farmbot project.  We have successfully added the tracks and an arm of the robot to our raised garden bed.

We hope to have our first crop planted early next year when the school year resumes.  This group is now called "TechtoTable" and we have established a facebook page [TechtoTable.co.nz] should you wish to follow our progress.  We also extend a warm welcome to anyone who would like to join us as we begin to learn how to programme this robot to plant, monitor, water and weed our crops.

Next meeting is to launch this project:
Sunday 28 January 2018 at St Margaret's College 10am
please email flaviadean@gmail.com for more information

If you have not seen a farmbot in action click on this link  [farmbot.io] 

to see what it should do.

Laser Cutting Workshop

During Term Two of this year, we were very fortunate to add a laser cutting machine to the amazing resources we have available in the Centre for Innovation.

This workshop provided staff and students an opportunity to become confident using the laser cutting machine and thinking creatively about the possibilities of gifts and cool stuff that they could create.

  

  

Participants were introduced to the concept of "failing forward" - cutting their project early on in the process to see if their idea was going to work.  Once this step had been made, then embellishing their creation could take place as the next step.

It was a pleasure to work with a small group of keen people at the end of the school year.  The Centre for Innovation continued to hum as everyone else began their holidays.  The challenge for many was to start off with creating something simple first before launching into a more complex design idea.  Holding back the creativity in the room was a challenge and a delight. I look forward to more spectacular creations that are still work in progress.