As a part of the 'We Read' Auckland Council initiative, we collaborated with the council to set the scene and immerse the community in their favourite magical world in our own little way. This week people could come in to fill out a sorting hat quiz about things they...
Hoodie with a light up monster face. Made with EL wire at TAPlab. Halloween isn't far away and you may be starting to think about costumes. EL wire (electroluminescent wire) is a really easy way to light up your costume and requires no experience with electronics. You...
During the school holidays we hosted a stop motion animation workshop for kids. The goal was simple, show some kids how to use play-dough and some clever phone/tablet apps to tell awesome stories but the most interesting bit was that we had our youngest "workshop...
There’s nothing like a bit of James Brown and some neon wire to brighten up your making. We recently ran a couple of sessions building what we call ‘Disco Bike’ (although ‘Funk Bike’ is probably closer to the truth. As you can see in the video below we made a...
Over two weekends, we ran some workshops for people to build Mother's Day cards with a bit of a difference- an electronic difference. Paper circuits are made using normal paper and card and conductive copper tape. The tape is adhesive and can be stuck onto the card to...
We’ve recently been running some very popular simple wearable workshops at TAP:lab. Simply put, wearable technology is any device that can be worn by a person. While people have created incredibly elaborate costumes as forms of art or self-expression, we’ve started...
Andrew held another popular 2 hour workshop for beginners on how to use TinkerCAD. Starting from basic principles of viewing and manipulating objects in the the design area, the group followed along and designed a pencil stopper. Additive and subtractive combinations...
Minecraft has landed at the TAP lab. We've got five minecraft accounts loaded onto our latops along with a NAS running Minecraft server. Jeremy and I spent a couple of hours on Friday installing Minecraft, connecting an ethernet switch and setting up a server. On...