“scratch”

Ever wanted to make your own video games or cool interactive stuff?

Want to make your ‘Makey Makey’ do something on screen that YOU’VE created?

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Those clever varmints at MIT in the US of A have been at it again and although they’re absolutely brilliant at creating such cool computer-y stuff like Scratch and robots, they majorly suck at making it sound cool! Huh you don’t believe us then read this:

“Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web.

As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively”

Well ***YAWN*** to that!

Here’s what we think to Scratch building our own computer games n stuff>

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Cost is $15 per person

Laptops will be supplied – but if you’d like to use your own machine download and install Scratch via http://scratch.mit.edu/

Come join us to build your own rope traversing Tarzan robot.

Sign up @ http://www.meetup.com/wellingtonmakerspace/events/105466362/

So you like computers? Well aside from playing games which is we really love to do and lets face it games are cooooool…computers can also be used for other stuff like Art too

We thought you might like to come along to our new ‘Pixel Lab’ – a weekly after school type club for girls and boys interested in the creative use of computers.

The Wellington Makerspace will supply the Laptops and a space to chill out and learn together – all you have to do is pick a topic and we’ll all work together on creating something cool each time we meet. This could be as simple as a single web posting/blog entry or as complex as a Custom T-shirt design or music video, it’s all up to what you and your group decides on the night! Also any work you create can be posted on labpixel.tumblr.com to show off to the World [in a safe way] – and on your own created website*.
Club nights are built around four important elements -m we think they’ll be lots to do and learn!
Exploring
Remixing
Creating
Sharing

For starters here’s some cool stuff we might want to get our teeth into, topics like this:
Video Art
Game Making
Interactive Art
3D design
Graphic Design
Web Design
Clothing Design
Electronics
Electronic Music

…And the best bit is we have an inspiring an all round nice guy who wants to help us do this cool stuff, His name is Alan Proctor-Thomson.
Alan is an artist and teacher and has been a Digital Media Specialist in schools for 10 Years here in Wellington and also in the UK. He currently teaches as a Digital Media Facilitator at Brooklyn School and St Francis de Sales in Island Bay.

* Only first names or pseudonyms [that means fake name] will be used when posting on the net. No photos or addresses will be posted. Club members will need to have an email address they can access during class and this will be given to parents as  a safety requirement. We’ll be using the email to register on the occasional website and upload work etc and any work we create will be released under a “Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike Licence” – which basically means we’ll be sharing with everyone in the World and that means anyone can remix or reuse your work -which, if you think about it would be soooo cool and could make you famous!  They can use your stuff but they can’t make any money out of it – and that goes for us to

Checkout our Meetup> http://www.meetup.com/wellingtonmakerspace

So you like computers? Well aside from playing games which is we really love to do and lets face it games are cooooool…computers can also be used for other stuff like Art too

We thought you might like to come along to our new ‘Pixel Lab’ – a weekly after school type club for girls and boys interested in the creative use of computers.

The Wellington Makerspace will supply the Laptops and a space to chill out and learn together – all you have to do is pick a topic and we’ll all work together on creating something cool each time we meet. This could be as simple as a single web posting/blog entry or as complex as a Custom T-shirt design or music video, it’s all up to what you and your group decides on the night! Also any work you create can be posted on labpixel.tumblr.com to show off to the World [in a safe way] – and on your own created website*.
Club nights are built around four important elements -m we think they’ll be lots to do and learn!
Exploring
Remixing
Creating
Sharing

For starters here’s some cool stuff we might want to get our teeth into, topics like this:
Video Art
Game Making
Interactive Art
3D design
Graphic Design
Web Design
Clothing Design
Electronics
Electronic Music

…And the best bit is we have an inspiring an all round nice guy who wants to help us do this cool stuff, His name is Alan Proctor-Thomson.
Alan is an artist and teacher and has been a Digital Media Specialist in schools for 10 Years here in Wellington and also in the UK. He currently teaches as a Digital Media Facilitator at Brooklyn School and St Francis de Sales in Island Bay.

* Only first names or pseudonyms [that means fake name] will be used when posting on the net. No photos or addresses will be posted. Club members will need to have an email address they can access during class and this will be given to parents as  a safety requirement. We’ll be using the email to register on the occasional website and upload work etc and any work we create will be released under a “Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike Licence” – which basically means we’ll be sharing with everyone in the World and that means anyone can remix or reuse your work -which, if you think about it would be soooo cool and could make you famous!  They can use your stuff but they can’t make any money out of it – and that goes for us to

Checkout our Meetup> http://www.meetup.com/wellingtonmakerspace

Hear ye, Hear ye – My Peasants, Lords and Ladies, take heed for we will be taking thou a laser cutter and with which we will be set to task building castles from bricks made by thouests own hands.

And Afterwarth we shall smash our Lord’s Castles using only our own made trebuchet weapons fashioned with sticks, weights and twine.

And hereth will endeth the Workshop-eth

Sign up @ http://www.meetup.com/wellingtonmakerspace/events/105464702/

So you like computers? Well aside from playing games which is we really love to do and lets face it games are cooooool…computers can also be used for other stuff like Art too

We thought you might like to come along to our new ‘Pixel Lab’ – a weekly after school type club for girls and boys interested in the creative use of computers.

The Wellington Makerspace will supply the Laptops and a space to chill out and learn together – all you have to do is pick a topic and we’ll all work together on creating something cool each time we meet. This could be as simple as a single web posting/blog entry or as complex as a Custom T-shirt design or music video, it’s all up to what you and your group decides on the night! Also any work you create can be posted on labpixel.tumblr.com to show off to the World [in a safe way] – and on your own created website*.
Club nights are built around four important elements -m we think they’ll be lots to do and learn!
Exploring
Remixing
Creating
Sharing

For starters here’s some cool stuff we might want to get our teeth into, topics like this:
Video Art
Game Making
Interactive Art
3D design
Graphic Design
Web Design
Clothing Design
Electronics
Electronic Music

…And the best bit is we have an inspiring an all round nice guy who wants to help us do this cool stuff, His name is Alan Proctor-Thomson.
Alan is an artist and teacher and has been a Digital Media Specialist in schools for 10 Years here in Wellington and also in the UK. He currently teaches as a Digital Media Facilitator at Brooklyn School and St Francis de Sales in Island Bay.

* Only first names or pseudonyms [that means fake name] will be used when posting on the net. No photos or addresses will be posted. Club members will need to have an email address they can access during class and this will be given to parents as  a safety requirement. We’ll be using the email to register on the occasional website and upload work etc and any work we create will be released under a “Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike Licence” – which basically means we’ll be sharing with everyone in the World and that means anyone can remix or reuse your work -which, if you think about it would be soooo cool and could make you famous!  They can use your stuff but they can’t make any money out of it – and that goes for us to

Checkout our Meetup> http://www.meetup.com/wellingtonmakerspace

So you want to work in the Movies? No? That’s OK too …just making your cool creations is cool.

Remember when you played with Playdoh or Plasticine – how easy it was to create cool shapes and creatures, well that’s exactly how Gollum and the other creatures you see on screen we’re made… the difference is as well as making them in clay, the Weta artists also used tools like Sculptris and it’s big sister Z-Brush to ‘virtually’ make, texture and paint stuff. Have you seen the little figures at the Games Workshop for role play?…we can make them in any shape you want – all you need is your imagination and we’ll show you how!

Still keen? Well The Wellington Makerspace has a resident artist called Maddie and she is probably the worlds best at Z-brush and has done heaps of books and DVD’s on making monsters and aliens  and is currently working making movie stuff at Weta Digital….Maddie wants to share skills and knowledge with you guys – how cool is that?

This 2 hour introductory workshop will show the basics to get going on your new adventure with virtual modelling and you can even use it to create things for including in Games, movies and if you want one on your desk – we can even 3D print it!*

*Mmmmm chocolate monsters.  But that won’t be on this workshop – we just don’t have the time.

However – the best bit is we’ll be using FREE open source software so you will be able to download and carry on learning at home You never know…you might one day be making movies or top games too as a career!

Please note the cost for this course is $20 per person. pay on the door please

Checkout and RSVP here> http://www.meetup.com/wellingtonmakerspace/events/106978442/

So you like computers? Well aside from playing games which is we really love to do and lets face it games are cooooool…computers can also be used for other stuff like Art too

We thought you might like to come along to our new ‘Pixel Lab’ – a weekly after school type club for girls and boys interested in the creative use of computers.

The Wellington Makerspace will supply the Laptops and a space to chill out and learn together – all you have to do is pick a topic and we’ll all work together on creating something cool each time we meet. This could be as simple as a single web posting/blog entry or as complex as a Custom T-shirt design or music video, it’s all up to what you and your group decides on the night! Also any work you create can be posted on labpixel.tumblr.com to show off to the World [in a safe way] – and on your own created website*.
Club nights are built around four important elements -m we think they’ll be lots to do and learn!
Exploring
Remixing
Creating
Sharing

For starters here’s some cool stuff we might want to get our teeth into, topics like this:
Video Art
Game Making
Interactive Art
3D design
Graphic Design
Web Design
Clothing Design
Electronics
Electronic Music

…And the best bit is we have an inspiring an all round nice guy who wants to help us do this cool stuff, His name is Alan Proctor-Thomson.
Alan is an artist and teacher and has been a Digital Media Specialist in schools for 10 Years here in Wellington and also in the UK. He currently teaches as a Digital Media Facilitator at Brooklyn School and St Francis de Sales in Island Bay.

* Only first names or pseudonyms [that means fake name] will be used when posting on the net. No photos or addresses will be posted. Club members will need to have an email address they can access during class and this will be given to parents as  a safety requirement. We’ll be using the email to register on the occasional website and upload work etc and any work we create will be released under a “Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike Licence” – which basically means we’ll be sharing with everyone in the World and that means anyone can remix or reuse your work -which, if you think about it would be soooo cool and could make you famous!  They can use your stuff but they can’t make any money out of it – and that goes for us to

Checkout http://www.meetup.com/wellingtonmakerspace/events/107657182/

Join us to build a Life-Sized Dinosaur.

Sign up @ http://www.meetup.com/wellingtonmakerspace/events/105464042/