(22/02/18) Elder's presentation, Erasmus+ deadline done !

Elder's presentation, Erasmus+ deadline

   Marcin is an member of Pralnia but is also involved in diferent project and he ask me to make an presentation of our activities and show some technologies able to be connected with elders.
   So i presented 3d printing (for sure), Lofi robot and coding but also my favorite Makey makey and scratch with an fruit piano... you have question about that ? it's pretty simple when you touch an fruit you create an electric connection and the makey makey give this information to the computer, and for finish on scratch (the coding software) i wrote a code for playing music.
   The presentation was in an new kind of library in Wroclaw.

For Erasmus+ with big surprise and hard work it was possible to finish every projects before the deadline !! So now... just need to wait for the answer.

(04/02/18) Mid term meeting in Torùn

Mid term meeting in Torùn

   Finaly i survived of the week in Torùn with Erasmus+ activities and in fact it was not so bad... The first day was not really funny because i spent all the day in transport bus to Wroclaw, train to Poznan, train to Torùn finaly i took a cab until hostel.

   I was afraid about games and stupid activities like ice breaking... But it was not the main point of this week, the idea of this was more about make a point and have an reflexion about EVS, what kind of difficulties we had met, what was our expectative before the EVS, what is the reality for us and what is our project for the future after the Evs.It was really interesting moment, for think about ourself.
   The second interesting point was met somes other volunteers from diferents country with the same kind of problems, same good moments and experiences...
   We have spend an good week, make new friends, visit the city and follow the program of Michael and Voytech two greats trainors, there program and their tools was incredible and really interesting.
   After that i see more clear in my future, i want stay in Poland after the Evs and continue the project. I really like this country, architecture, history and peoples... For now i want stay and we will see.

   Torùn is an beautiful city with an medieval history of Teutonic knives and many kings, in France i like history and castles and it was really intersting for me to discover new things on another point of view. There is also many museums and churchs i hope i will have time for spend more time to visit this city.

One partcicpant made an video of the week... follow the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y227-3gR2A

 I leave this picture in color, black and yellow... it's like the theme blog.

(22/01/18) New year and winter break

New year and winter break

   I don't speak to much in this blog about friendship because it need to be an report of the work but there is no too much job in this period, kids have vacation, the team also... But i start to have many friends in the village so i stayed for christmas and new year.
    For the new year, Radek opened a bar in the village, so now it will be the place to be for drink somes beers with kind peoples, and also good place for pratice my polish... yeah i learn more how to swear like a real polish but... you know it's also learning ! ahah

   So for the new evening i was seek so i don't have spend all the night awake, but i've speak and met many person from the village or families coming for christmas. At midnight, Polish have the same tradition as German they put firework everywhere in the street it's like an big mess with car alarm ! But after that champagne and all peoples make hugs, it's was really surprising for me.

   The other surprise of January was the coming of my best friend Martin from France, we had spend many good time together and visit Wroclaw and good place for drink somes beers.
    We had visit the "museum of games an computers of the past era" it's an small museum about videogames and computers like the name told ! It's an place with a lot of accessible videogames and we are geek so we have spend many times on Metal Slug, Mario kart 64, duck hunt.... The guy working in the museum was really cool and i've speak with him about the possibility to mkae an partnership and organise somes workshops in their place.

   Happy news of the day ! we planned to visit Warsaw because Martin had is plane there to come back to Toulouse, but i received an email and i need to be in Torun for the Mid term meeting... So sad ! I don't like this kind of meeting with group and games... I hope it will be good.
So i will be there 29 until 2 february...

Martin, me an Radek block in the snow...       

(10/01/18) Erasmus+

Erasmus+

   Like i told after the Luxembourg Ka1, i kept contact with some participants of this training. And with them and friends from France we prepare differents Erasmus+  project. This is the lists of project we are working on. For all projects we included Pralnia makerspace for connect them with the european maker movement.

-Ka1 "Noisy stuff": It was an idea of 2 guys and me,  to create an training course about making but on the theme of music, music making and instruments making will be the main part and for that we will need to introduce the digital fabrication, CAD and electronics...
This training will take place in Pralnia makerspace, in Sokolowsko.

-Ka2 "Environmental éducation and digital youthwork": For this project the idea is make an bridge between environment and technologie, The main idea is make an experience to connect one plant on an weather station controled by computer and connected on internet. The same equipment will be in different school in diferent country and we will create an web platform to exchange and follow results.

-Ka2 "W3M4KE": Coordinate by the city of Rybnik on initiative of the internet education of Kielce, this project have to objective to develop makerspace in Poland but also the non formal education in makerspace for youth in collaboration with schools.

It's a lot of work before 15th February, but we can do that and it can be really interesitng to Pralnia to be connected with different organisations and country !

(20/12/17) Lofi robot

Lofi robot

   So we had split there is two "team" now for workshops thursday, i don't open anymore the Pracownia Orange but i go with Kamila in Mierosow to make workshop after school. We had 2 groups one 9 to 11 and 11 to 13, and each week we have one group.
   The program for this serial of workshops will be coding with Lofi robot, it's an robot from an little company from poland it work with arduino compatible with scratch but we will start with an connected apps Lofi blocks (scratch clone but simplified).

    We will follow the internet course for teach robotic to kids, it will be 4 session
        -Difference human/robot and electronic component, how they works
        -Building the Robot with screws and wood parts
        -Start to code and connect sensor
        -"free" session with coding and component build you own robot

One of our team of proud robotic ingeneers !

(12/11/17) New workshops and school presentation

New workshops and school presentation

   This month, the same kind of workshop with kids but know i ask to draw somes spaceship in the context of mars exploration ideas it's funny and spaceship it's an topic really open for creativity, everything it's possible all shapes are goods and kids have a lot of imagination.


   Too many kids start to come so i start offer other activities because it can be boring to draw all the time 3d models on computer this is why i've start to introduce Scratch (an software developped by the M.I.T to teach coding) with Makey Makey (it's an microcontroller for create diferent interface between human and computer).

   With Martyna we've also make two intervention in school for present what kind of activities we can offer in Pralnia Makerspace. It was during the english course so it was in english and kids was questions if they're understand and translate to others and when it was not enough Martyna was here to explain them.

   The topic offer was
       - Lofi robot, an programmable robot
       -Scratch and Makey makey
       -Tinkercad and 3D modeling
       -Raspberry Pi an nanocomputer

   This month was also the first month of work with Miro but...  It was really problematic with misunstertood and bad communication, before the second school presentation i have ask to Martyna and Kamila to organise diferent activities and mission for each other because i'm not able to work with him.

    For me the Evs is an important task like any job and i want to be serious an create confident with the team, for create better projects and more interesting activity. I quite sad to be "alone" or don't have other volunteer with me to exchange and share feeling about Evs experience.

    I hope it will be possible to have the possibility to don't work together anymore.

(03/11/17) Zortrax and the workshop building 3D printer

Zortrax and the workshop building 3D printer

   I was used to use 3D printer in France, but only on cheap printer like Prusa i3, cartesian printer or microdelta from Emotiontech... But when i arrive in this makerspace they had only one 3D printer an Zortrax m200... Professional look all in black steel... and ZORTRAX !!! Sound like the name of a dragon in Dungeon & Dragons roleplaying games.
   The fact is the machine is sold with an software Z-suite the software is not realy open you don't have choice for many settings but it's working and availalble in English. Oh ! yeah ! The company is Polish like the menu on the machine not so easy for the beginning but an good way for catch some new polish words. Finally it's easy, also for not polish speaker so it's good. the bad point it's there is only ABS for print (ABS is from petrol so... not so good) i will encourage them to buy some PLA better to everyone and easy to print.

   Last weekend i have also particpating to an workshop animate by Cyryl Sochacki for build our own 3D printer under 250€ you can find the tutorial on internet, the name of printer it's GIMLI XL.
   Michal was my partner for this workshop all in polish hopefuly i found the english tutorial on internet for helping us during the bulding.
   2 days of building and it was not so easy because sunday morning there was no electricity in all the village, so the first task was to find an generator and connect it for have some lights and electricity for soldering machine or computer.