 Rarar, yn oeddiw'r ffordd, hella! So, rydw i wedi gweithio'r teimlo y Manchester ar y Ffasidol Ffasidol. Ffasidol ffasidol yw'r anul yma, a mae'n gwybod yn y 10 o'r 30 o'r octob. Mae'n rhan o'r Unedig, ac mae'n ffasidol ffasidol. Rydw i'n gwybod i'r ffordd o'r ffasidol ffasidol, a'r ffordd o'r ffasidol ffasidol. A'n Ffasidol ffasidol, rydw i'n gweithio'r organffordd torru o pot o'r Manchester Gail. Trinno'n gweithio'r pan fydd yn yw'r pan fath o ffasidol. Tynedd y ffaith yw'r pan ffaith yw y Morse-Code yw'r pan ffaith ar dlewydd, a yna'n ddweud o ffasidol ac mae'n bwysig i'r panfodaeth ensnig. Rydym yn cyfle unrhyw ffaith myllaf o'r pan ffaith yw'r amser o'r bobl. Residential yma yw ei ddych chi'n ddych chi'n ddigon, barson, ac dweud yr ydych chi'n gwneud mor wych diolch. Diolch i chi'r warchio ësgwrs Br�sl bot yn ein chyfnau'r golygu, maen nhw'n gondol, ac yn ddod o'r ymdrygu rydych chi'n gwychol ond yn ôl i'ch rowb o sylf. Ac rwy'n chinaeth i chi i gyd yn maen nhw erbyn Sniëts Fesafol. Rwy'n ddigon ydw i ddim yn ymddangos, i g feddwl sen. Yn bod nifer ymser, wrth gael cyfryl a ddim yn ddatblygu fyrdd mwy o ein bod yn biad i'r draf. One of their workshops was an introduction to CodeCademy, so for those of you that don't know, CodeCademy is basically a website where you can go and you can teach yourself how to code. And I thought this was really interesting. I think it was the first time I'd actually been introduced to what coding and what programming was. And I found it really, really cool that you could use code to basically create your own programs and get computers to do what you wanted them to do. So, from the tech community I learnt about a thing called Arduino's, so I went to an event run by Alan O'Donoghue, which was called Hap to the Future. So there was loads of young people like me really interested in learning more about programming, learning more about technology. And somebody told me about an Arduino, which many of you have probably used. And I think my mum tweeted about it and someone was very kind enough to actually send me a starter Arduino kit, because we weren't too sure about whether to invest in one or not. And so I put it into my year eight homework of building a volcano. So my dad helped me while I was up I think about eight LEDs and an LCD screen. So the LCD screen would light up telling you what part of the volcano was by looking at the corresponding LEDs. So that was kind of like my first make a project. And then around about the same time the Raspberry Pi came out, and this video is not going to work. But the very first Raspberry Jam was in Manchester. So somebody called Ben Nuttel, he was running those jams and there was loads and loads of really interesting people there. And they helped to introduce me to and help me set up my first Raspberry Pi. Dan Hett helped me a lot on the first day helping me to set up my Raspberry Pi. And there was loads of really interesting projects going on. So one thing was that Ben had gone to this thing called a cloud retreat, which was kind of like a programming day where you do it was themed around commoners game of life. So you just did commoners game of life in lots of different ways and it's kind of to help you improve your coding skills, I guess, or just kind of relax whilst doing some programming. And he introduced me to this problem and initially he helped me to create a version where just using Python it printed out a smiley face if that cell was alive. For those of you who aren't familiar with the problem in commoners game of life, it's a cellular simulator, I think. So basically there's a grid and in that grid there's two states. So there's alive or dead and there's four rules that it follows. So if you have less than two neighbours that are alive then you die because it's underpopulation. If there's two or three then you stay alive because it's a nice balance. If there's more than three then you die as if by population. But if you're by overpopulation and if you're a dead cell but you've got exactly three neighbours then you become alive again like you're being born. So this can create some quite pretty patterns which you would have seen if the video was working but YouTube doesn't want to work. So actually here I think I did an Arduino workshop in this town hall and that kind of helped me to get to grips with it a little bit more. And the first iteration of actually using LEDs and using a matrix. So I got instead of having it print out to the command line I had it lighting up some a little grid. And then kind of moved on to putting it onto the Raspberry Pi and there was lots of different people I think Aaron and Adrian and people they really helped me to kind of learn more about how you could get this hardware to interface with your code and instead of just having something print out actually having something that would work in the real world. Something physical so kind of introduced to the physical side of computing. So I scaled it up and I made a bigger one so this one's using I think it's the LOL hat or something, a highlight based on the LOL shield for Arduino. So it was a bigger one so the first one was an 8x8 grid and this one's like 9x12 or something. I can't quite remember it was a while ago. And then I found out about a place called FabLab. So Manchester had a FabLab. It was the first one in the UK inspired obviously by the ones in the first one that set up in by MIT in America. And it was a great community space where people could go but it's very recently closed. But this is just some of the projects that I kind of made around there. So this one actually wasn't made at FabLab. It was made at the Manchester Craft and Design Centre. So basically there's loads of local artists who work there and they sometimes run workshops. So this was a Peter Casting workshop. So I made a couple of different things. We were using cuttlefish. So you kind of engraved a pattern into a cuttlefish and then you got to melt down Peter which I think is a tin alloy when you poured it in. So I made a couple of different things. You can use them as pendants for necklaces. I found a quite nice thing which was when you poured it in it kind of the metal sort of reacted a little bit with the pewter towards the top so I could make a yellow pacman. Or if you didn't want the yellow then you could kind of scratch it off and it was nice and shiny so it was all yellow. And at FabLab I had my first experience with laser cutters. So I really love laser cutters. They're really fun. So I kind of experimented with making loads of different designs. So this was working with paper so you basically just make the laser go really, really fast so things don't set on fire. Although that doesn't always work. I have set a couple of things on fire. Not too big fires, just like diddy fires. It's fine. Also I experimented with some acrylic. So I heard that if you get wax crowns then you can kind of grate the wax if you do an engraving. Then you can kind of grate the wax onto the acrylic and then you put it in the microwave and the wax kind of melts and you get quite a nice effect. So I used the periodic table to make my name because I was like, this works. This is really good. And then I tried to make other people's names and it's really, really difficult. And I was like, at least my name works. I made some LED cards. So what you can do is using conductive threads and just poking some holes in some card then you can create nice little gifts for people or cards. So I did a TARDIS and I did a Harry Potter wand and I put Lumos next to the switch so it's like the casting spell things like that. I laser cut a little Pacman pendant so it's one of the Pacman ghosts and I was trying to so there's just an RGB LED in there so it color cycles and just experimenting with diffusing the light and working on kind of building a nice little case and making different layers of laser cut wood. Made some binary confetti because he doesn't need binary confetti in their lives. As you can see, I used this laser cutter for really useful things and I also converted one of my drawings into a wooden thing which is on the wall and it casts pretty shadows. So at FabLab I kind of found a community of people like me, people who were really excited about learning about how they could work and how they could make things for themselves so they've got a CNC machine or they had a CNC machine a laser cutter at one point they had two laser cutters which was really good because there was one with like a rotary bit so as the laser moved it also kind of rotated something so you could put glasses in and you could laser etch glasses and things like that. I wanted to put rolling pin in so that you could roll cookie cutters but I never got a chance to but yeah, it was just a community of like-minded people people who would be happy to tell you how the laser cutter worked or how the 3D printer worked or to work with you on projects and actually get to use like massive machinery so there's like a picture of Tiny Me next to the massive CNC machine getting to make like really big wooden kind of projects and it was a great contest to school so in school kind of like this is maths and this is biology and this is art and it didn't kind of really mix whereas at Fabab, it didn't really matter it was just like what you wanted to learn about what you wanted to learn how to make and you could just, you could make a dinosaur hoodie or you could make some liquidy to go on the wall or you could make a case for your kind of project like it didn't matter what it was there was just people there to help you and people there to kind of show you what to do so yay and then GCSEs kind of got in the way a little bit and I didn't really do many make-up projects apart from at the end of year 11 at my school because obviously some people are going to move away and you're not going to see them again, we had a prom so the theme was a starry night and I don't know if the video was replay there we go the theme was a starry night so I got a navy blue dress and my mum helped me to sew lots and lots of neopixels and my grandma helped me to sew because I was busy revising for my GCSEs so lots and lots of neopixels into the dress so that I could have a starry night themed dress for my prom but unfortunately we were advised that because conductive thread is quite resistive and I had about I think it was 48 48 neopixels thrown on we were advised not to use conductive thread for the positive and negative rails because they're highly resistive and I didn't want to be on fire like that wasn't the theme so we used solder joints so we soldered them but solder joints were quite brittle so unfortunately five minutes into the prom just me walking had broken all the solder joints so we had to kind of fix that but it wasn't very feasible for wearing so whilst it looked pretty whilst I was standing still I couldn't do anything useful like actually walk somewhere let alone dance in it or anything so that was kind of the first big wearable tech project that I did and like obviously we learnt a lot like maybe 48 isn't the best place to start maybe we'd use it down to 9 that might be easier to handle is it? am I on? and whilst I was kind of like after GCSEs and I was doing A-levels cos that's kind of like the general stuff the BBC kind of sent me an email and they were like hey you seem to do lots of makeery stuff and we've got this project called the BBC Microbit so have all of you heard of the BBC Microbit? yeah okay so they were like we want some projects we're doing a live lesson so basically they have this online format where they'll create a lesson and they'll broadcast it it's about 45 minutes long and on the day they'll broadcast it to school children so they'll be sat on their lessons and they'll watch this 45 minute program which is broadcast live via the BBC live lesson website and they were like we'd like you to come on and we'd like you to talk about some stuff and I sat down and I kind of listened to the format that they were talking about and I wasn't too happy with it because it sounded kind of like they were just trying to force coding on to everybody and whilst I really enjoy programming and most people out here probably really enjoy programming I knew it wouldn't be for everybody but I still think it's a really useful tool for people to learn and I didn't want to put people off for life and I wanted to kind of have these year 7s to get excited about that micro bit and not just be like oh that's a bit boring it should be in a drawer somewhere because if they're putting a million of these out there or so they say you don't want them to be wasted you kind of want them to be used so I thought about maybe ways instead of being like this is for coding just going code on it we can think about how making it useful for them so I came up with some ideas about hacking your bedroom so to try and make projects that they'd want to make in order to facilitate those projects they'd learn how to code kind of in the background so one of them was like a constellation thing to go on the wall I made a little prototype and the BBC props department made massive ones for me but I had to do all the soldering so so this one it was just some LEDs that kind of twinkle there was because they've got three main pins on the micro bit that you can attach two or solder to there was just three so you could control the different groups and they'd come on and just having it fade in and out so it kind of it would teach them about soldering they could make it really arty if they wanted to they could do whatever pattern they wanted on the canvas and the nice thing was about it was I went to Hobbycraft and I just got some box canvases and if they're quite deep then you can put it on the wall and you can house all the electronics inside the canvas so it can look quite pretty from the front and you don't have to see all the electronics but if you turn it around then you can see all the electronics that housed inside, you can show all your mates all the soldering that you did and it's all nicely contained so it can fit flush on the wall without having to I don't know do a hole in the wall for the electronics to be housed in and the second project that I made for them was a piano so this uses conductive paint there's some wire kind of sewing through I think it's here, here and here so that I can attach it to the micro bit and when you ground yourself using the circle and then press the different keys then you can play a little song so this is the big version I don't know, can you hear that? It's twinkle twinkle I think but you could basically play the piano but on the micro bit basically I think it's touch resistive so they've got massive resistives I think I used 22 mega ohm resistives not 22 mega ohm but 22 mega ohm yeah so there's three of those connected to the main three pins on the micro bit but they have more pins which are smaller so you use the breakout board to do them but their code or their programming interfaces they weren't expecting you to be able to do the touch stuff so those are the pins so I had to ask my friend who had access to a private repository on github for the dial code I think it was if we could look through that and change it so that for this project because we added more pull up resistives to the other pins because if you just got three notes you can't really make a good tune so we added it so that you could have seven notes seven notes and so we kind of adapted that so that you could play more tunes so there was lots of soldering and not much homework getting done but projects getting done which was good and that's what school was happy about it but so those are some of the projects that I did for the BBC I also did another live lesson for them but I didn't get to make any projects for that one because it was literally I think in the middle of my AS exams so it was rehearsal for the live lesson doing the live lesson and then it was a statistics exam and then a physics exam and a chemistry exam so I just kind of explained the code rather than actually creating the code because I was trying to revise and get good grades at the same time which is a hard balance to try and get right and then the dinosaur hoodie this is my favourite project I was it's gone up again I'm not sure, I think it's the battery it doesn't require a lot of power and it's usually used for charging phones it's just kind of like nothing's plugged in I'm going to turn myself off to conserve energy and then the rainbow disappears oh well back to the story of the dinosaur I was in my friend's flat and he was talking with a friend and she was going to a festival and they were making costumes to be a dinosaur and then I was just like yes a dinosaur hoodie that sounds great and the way that she did it was I think she just kind of stapled friends' binds in but I'd already imagined this so I was like I'm going to make this it took me a year to make it because you know A levels and things but the first step that I did was I went into SketchUp and I tried to design a spine and SketchUp probably isn't the best piece of software for me to be using but it's free and I know how to use it so with the help initially I kind of just used the follow me tool and it was like a straight up comb but that looked a little bit weird and also I figured if I was going to wear it at things like make a fair I didn't want a small child colliding with my back and impaling themselves so I thought it would be better it was kind of hooked round so I found a plug-in so SketchUp has people can write ruby plug-ins I think expand the functionality of SketchUp so I found one that kind of drew increasingly smaller circles along the curve that you could put in so I just drew a curve and it created that nice shape that I wanted and then I put some sewing holes in because I didn't want to glue it on so I printed one out and then I used a phone torch to check that actually you'd be able to see light through this because it's all well and good having rainbow LEDs but if you can't see them then what's the point so it nicely diffused the light which was good and then I did a little bit of testing with an RGB LED to see what it would look like in the dark and then I was happy that it was all working so I printed out a lot more and they stuck quite nicely too which is handy and I also made a space in Vader's as Pac-Man ghost necklace because why not and so between actually designing the spine and getting all the spines printed I think I did it on an ultimaker so it was about half an hour for each spine so it took a couple of weeks to have enough time on the 3D printer because I don't actually own one so it was all done at FabLab but eventually I had enough and then I think school got in the way and then make affair was suddenly around the corner and I was like I need to have this done for make affair because it would be an awesome place to wear a dinosaur hoodie and then to a make affair does everyone know what a make affair is so kind of so a make affair is basically a celebration of all the things that you've made so there's many make affairs I've been to the masher one quite a few times that's hosted in the science museum it's now called Make Fest but yeah it's basically a collection of makers demonstrating what they've done so they kind of showcase all some things like space team by Bob over here has anyone played the app space team yeah so Bob and York Hackspace thought that was really really cool so decided to implement like a physical version of it and it's crazy and it's really good fun and it tours the country at these make affairs and it's really good so there's all kinds of crazy projects like this and at the UK make affair it's like massive and it's up in Newcastle and there's things like massive fire weaving dragon sculptures and all kinds of crazy projects like this and it's just it's really good fun you should visit one and I was like this is the perfect place to wear a dinosaur hoodie because I couldn't wear it to school and you probably shouldn't wear it right down high street but you know make affairs it kind of seems like a good place to wear one so this is me sat in the premier in hotel room frantically sewing the spines to the hoodie I've managed to get all the LEDs sewn into place so at the bottom here there's a flora so that's an Aida fruit product and it's basically an Arduino that is designed to be sewn on to things and then these are sewable neopixel so it's a WS2812 with basically I think it's copper pads that you can just sew on to so it's just in a format that makes it easy to connect to with conductive thread so there's two kinds of conductive thread that you can get one that's got stainless steel in it which is kind of harder to sew with but won't oxidize or there's silver thread which has got strands of the solder in and it behaves more like normal threads so it's easy for beginners to use but it will oxidize after about a year or so so your projects won't last forever I used a mixture on this one depending on how good it's sewing I was feeling so you can see kind of where the strands go up and then I was just sewing the spines of the top and then I tested it and I got really happy that it was all working and finished it off and then I wore it around Make Affair and around Newcastle and Newcastle you know, Newtroy's first stag parties and Hendy's so there was quite a lot of drunk, confused people at a small dinosaur walking around at 11pm drinking milk on the high street dressed as a dinosaur so they got some quite funny comments and then I also I wore it to a robot war's life thing at Manchester because that's another appropriate place to wear it I felt and I wore it to a laser rave at EMF, that was good fun lasers they're good and then, because we were also at EMF my friend, he likes to do photography and he was like what I really want to do is I want to do some light explosion photographs and this was 2am so we decided to go up onto a hill in front of this basically massive camp full of nerds and geeks and hackers and makers it's basically like a music festival but not a music festival because instead there's blacksmithing tents and there's silversmithing tents and there's a tent where you can learn about lock picking and things like that so it's basically like kind of more more of a festival for us people so this is where the laser rave was and we made some pretty light exposure photographs so this was where you made me jumping around and then there was also one with me doing cartwheels and the reason why this is kind of flickery is because doing cartwheels on a dark hill at 2am when you're tired makes you quite dizzy and then you fall over and then you forget that you've got all the electronics on your back so it's a little bit temperamental now but it made pretty photos so it's all okay um so that's the dinosaur hoodie I'm currently making another one and trying to write up how I made it so because people at all these events were like where can I buy one and I was like you can't buy one because I made it but I'll put some instructions up on the internet so I'm trying to do that whilst also doing homework and lots of other things um this was another project that I did this one was actually during school time for GCSEs we didn't have that many options at my school because they wanted us to do 9 GCSEs so that we were more likely to do well in each of those 9 subjects instead of doing less well and say like 10 or 13 subjects but the one kind of creative choice that I did was product design and instead of making jewellery or furniture like other people are like I'm going to make a child's toy but what I really want to do is experiment with all these kinds of materials so I created a toy that was kind of aimed to introduce people to young children to electronics by linking it to things they already knew about so there's an LED which is a house because like when it's dark all the houses tend to light up so that's something that they kind of already know about roads connect things so they're kind of like the wires they don't actually do much apart from look pretty and then like a factory and using magnets when it's snapped together it would light up so I made this during school time mostly so this bit's laser cut this bit was CNC'd these were hand cut and then these kind of resin tops what I had to do was I used about sand and some MDF to form the roof shape and then I used a vacuum to create a mould and then I resin cast it in but then trying to spend the LEDs and it's quite hard so I used some blue tap and some wire to create like a little arch over each of the moulds and then used some solid tape to sandwich the legs of the LED so it was exactly the right position and then masking taped it to a desk which said please nobody touch this for 24 hours because I leave this to set like this and then it worked on the LEDs and drilled some holes into the house and managed to create this and the nice thing about using the magnets was I found them in some kind of schools magazine I think it was called Mindset so they were magnets that were conductive and they had a wire attached to them so this made it quite easy to attach what I was doing with them so what I did was I made I called it conductive rope in my write-up of it but it was a strands of conductive thread mixed with normal yarn to kind of make it stronger and you twist it and twist it and twist it and then you fold it in half and it twists itself into a nice little rope so I hooked one end of this onto the magnet and the other end onto the LEDs and things and onto the battery that's inside the factory and created this kind of simple way that could connect things in the circuit and the magnets were polarized so this meant that I could make sure that they couldn't put the house in the wrong way round so they wouldn't get confused about the LED not working when it should work so it kind of ingrained the knowledge on the lower level that there's only one way you can put an LED in without actually having to tell them that which was quite nice obviously there's kind of issues where they could create short circuits and I used to kind of edit it and work on it but it was quite a fun project to make and I made some packaging as well I called it Electricity because it was like a city and stuff that pun was come up with like 4am in the morning because I was trying to get it all finished and me and my mum pulled an all nighter trying to get the fold to work completely done so that was another project that I did so yeah does anybody have any questions about what I do or anything nope ok oh yeah hello yeah so I've just sat at my AS level as they went well I'm doing A2s I showed my face at school today but I only had 3 periods this afternoon so I was like I'll come here I needed to come here because I was talking now but I probably could have got here from after school but yes I'm doing maths further maths and physics at A2 I've dropped chemistry because it was far too stressful and so I'm currently trying to do an EPQ which is an extended project qualification and in that what I'm trying to do is look at the reasons why people took STEM and why people dropped STEM at different levels and then create something that will help to encourage more people into it so either by creating a little kit because I've always wanted to learn how to use EGLE or some other PCB designs of what to actually create my own PCBs because that seems quite fun or by making a little book I've had a little idea for a book that I want to make that inspires people to get creative with technology through projects on each page so I might do that for it or create some kind of other kit but I'm not sure yet because I want to do a little bit of research to see if I can find out what would be most effective so if anybody wants any help for that that would be good hopefully try and find a way that we can help save Manchester Fab Lab unfortunately the manufacturing institute can't fund it anymore I think is basically it so they've handed in the notice for the rent and they're temporarily moving to altering in Fab Lab which has funding from the local council but it's a different council to Manchester so hopefully they can find some more funding but if not it was a great community space where I learnt a lot and I don't know, it's a bit sad what else am I going to do I need to decide what I want to do at university I need to apply to university and then hopefully go to university that's something I should be doing otherwise school is going to go a bit crazy at me for not writing a personal statement yeah so that's the kind of stuff that I'll be doing yeah is it gone what's going to happen with the hoodie ok so if any of you are familiar with the Raspberry Pi you've probably seen the Pi Bo case which is made by Pi Morheny so I'm hoping to create a dinosaur hoodie kit with them to kind of introduce people to soft electronics or wearable technology or e-textiles whatever you want to call it I think it's a really interesting field for people who wouldn't necessarily get into electronics get into it so you've got some people who are really into electronics who will learn how to sew or some people who are really good at sewing who will learn a bit more about electronics so it's just kind of a fun intersection between subjects so I need to is it going to come back up? because I had a thank you thing and so hopefully we'll be able to make a kit and then you can all walk around in dinosaur hoodies it's really useful now it's at the beginning oh there we are, thank you I've been mini girl if you want to follow me on Twitter thank you