Summer Holiday Fun at Denny Abbey and The Farmland Museum! This week: Get crafty with colourful creations inspired by fruits and vegetables that you may find in the allotment.
Summer Holiday Fun at Denny Abbey and The Farmland Museum! This week: Explore the vast collection of farm machinery and get creative with machine-inspired crafts.
A digital alarm that you have programmed to wake you up will be so cool (at least you won't be irritated when it won't let you sleep in!). Learn how to code the micro:bit to become a light-sensitive wake-up alarm. And, if your curtains are drawn, put it under a lamp with a timer and you're still good to go!
No previous experience is required, just an interest in making tech do cool things!
Build yourself a pocket-sized, hand-held ‘brain’ game that can keep you occupied for hours while testing your focus and memory skills.
No electronics experience is required, although you will need a steady hand to assemble the components and use the tools.
This is a great workshop aimed at children aged 9 years and above. All under 14's must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
Booking essential.
In this talk, developer, geek, and digital archaeologist, Steven Goodwin, breaks down the very first program ever written to explain what it does and how it works. He covers the background of Ada and Charles Babbage (the father of computing who designed both the difference and analytical engines), and goes on to simulate the first program in an easy-to-understand manner.
He finishes up with a discussion on the controversy surrounding her involvement in computing, aiming to answer the question once and for all - "Was she really the first programmer?"
In this fun and hands-on workshop, participants will create their very own cube-shaped robot named Q-B. Using 3D-printed parts, an LCD screen for the robot’s expressive face, and a powerful yet tiny Raspberry Pi Pico as the brain, students will bring Q-B to life from the ground up.
Back in the mid 1980s, a huge project by the BBC took a snapshot of life in the UK. Using thousands of children up and down the country, they gathered information, and took photographs of their home town and villages, which were then sent to a central archive to be digitally converted.
Ever wanted to build your very own moving monster? Then come on down to the Museum of Technology and try your hand at combining basic physics with a dash of creativity and build your own pneumatic monster!
Booking Essential.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2025.
What do you get when you mix art and robots? An art bot! Try your hand at building simple circuits, designing and decorating your very own art-creating robot.
There are two workshops in one day: 10.30am - 12pm and 1 - 2.30pm.
Booking Essential.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2025.
Come and try your hands at different types of printing.
Use the sun to create a cyanotype print, try your hand at mono printing and use a real printing press to print a card.
Coinciding with an amazing exhibition by the talented print shop volunteers, pop in to the print shop to see the historic presses in action.
Drop in event. Free with usual museum entry.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2025.
