Science Makers: Colour - science and senses

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This month Science Makers be looking a colour - measuring it, creating it and being creative with it. There will also be a special activity session for children aged 8+, so feel free to bring your child(ren)!

Science Makers is a monthly event to discuss and build low-cost, DIY and open hardware for science and education. All are welcome for the talks, making or both!

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

A laptop and Android phone with camera would both be very useful for this session - please bring along if you have them.

• Build an open source colorimeter

• Put together a spectrometer

• Children's making activity TBC

Timings

12:00 - Arrival and introductions

12:15 - Talks and discussion

13:30 - Pizza (£4 suggested donation)

14:00 - Making!