Where: University Library
Description
About this two-day workshop
To kick-off 2019 we are planning a short fun activity: The goal is to build a simple but large (~10m) sundial.
In this workshop organized by the self-directed group Maker Space, we will briefly review how a sundial works and then build several.
On day 1 - Wednesday, January 16, 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM, everyone gets to build a small sundial to take home, and we will use some time to plan out the large sundial to be made on day 2.
On day 2 - Sunday, January 20, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, we will build one (about 10 meters) large sundial together on the spine.
We will need helping hands to put up a 10m rope at a specific angle. The rope will cast a shadow on the floor that is used to tell the time. Further, we will need even more helping hands to place the numerals on the floor and to decorate the whole sundial nicely. The sundial will be fully functional and (hopefully also) a visually pleasing timepiece.
Matej Mlejnek
Research Interest: Graphics processing units, domain-specific languages for visualization.
Peter Rautek
Peter Rautek is a Research Scientist at the Visual Computing Center at KAUST. He is passionate for making things manifested in joint electronics projects and mobile apps like Epic (mobilesynergies.org), uberdice (uberdice.thomashollt.com), and Visual Experience, a KAUST seed funded and award winning startup focusing on virtual reality experiences. Peter founded, and is the acting president of, KAUST’s Maker Space SDG. He has co-authored and co-hosted several WEP courses in 2016 and 2017.
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