Science Makers: Colour - science and senses

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• Saturday 06 May 2017, 12:00-17:00
• Makespace Classroom, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX .

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This Science Makers will be looking at colour – measuring it, creating it and being creative with it. We’ll be building colorimeters and spectrometers and testing mobile phone cameras for colour sensing. There will be a special activity session for children aged 8+, so feel free to bring your child(ren)!

Talks

• Dr Gareth Rees on sensing plant spectra in the Arctic and artistic collaborations around colour.
• Prof Jim Haseloff on biological pigments and coloured proteins.
• Olimpia Onelli on structural colour in G. Viridula beetles and biomimetics.
• Jeffrey Grey on Cambridge Display Technology’s printed organic LEDs and sensors for portable testing.
• Praveen Teleti and Sophie Weeks on protoyping low-cost color sensors.

Learning

• How to set up an Arduino and program a sensor
• How LEDs and colour sensors works

Making

• Build an open source colorimeter
• Android-based colour sensing using mobile phone cameras
• Put together a spectrometer
• Children’s making activity TBC

Timings

• 12:00 – Arrival and introductions
• 12:15 – Talks and discussion
• 13:45 – Pizza
• 14:00 – Making

This talk is part of the Engineering Biology Interdisciplinary Research Centre series.

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• Engineering Biology Interdisciplinary Research Centre
• Makespace Classroom, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX

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