22 Simply Brilliant
Simplicity wins. We celebrate the magic of inventions: yours, ours and Trevor Baylis’s. Roll up your sleeves and spend the evening in play.
Build your own spectrometers using a CD & kitchen roll tube. Team Robomods and BuildBrighton join forces to bring drawings to life in ‘The Wonderful World of the Kinect Beyond Xbox’. Print yourself out in 3D. Try the flashy Colour Sharing Zombie Badge. Make your very own hybrid Frankenstein ‘Toys ARRRRGH! Us’ creation. See what makes a toy tick by ripping it apart. Invensys Eurotherm presents The Engineering Olympics. Ian Watts lurks with the Robot Wars killer robots.
Meanwhile, Trevor Baylis, inventor of the wind-up radio, tells tales of his life in a world where people started by dismissing his inventions and ended by trying to steal them. Jonathan Hare shares some funny, inspiring and perhaps perception-changing stories from his own experience of science, and Professor Alison Bruce explains the latest developments at the University of Brighton’s nuclear structure physics group. A packed evening.
Wednesday 22 February
7.30pm
Sallis Benney Theatre, 58-67 Grand Parade, BN2 0JY
Ages 14+
£7/£5 (IOP members free)
Available on the door. (online sales now closed)
Book tickets here
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Tricky Problems can often have simple solutions
Dr Jonathan Hare pioneered nanotechnology with Sir Harry Kroto and was one of the BBC’s Rough Science and Coast team. Here he shares some fun, inspiring and perhaps perception changing stories from his own experience of science.…
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Kinect Beyond the X-Box
Team Robomods and BuildBrighton take you through an intriguing adventure into the world of the Kinect beyond the Xbox. Bring drawings to life and ‘paint’ with your body. Plus 3D printers and Colour Sharing Zombie Badges.…
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Robot Wars
The Robot Wars (BBC) are over, but a few of them still roam the planet, destroying all before them. Be afraid. Be very afraid. But just before they destroy you, take time to admire their mechanisms…
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Trevor Baylis
The inventor of the wind-up radio tells tales of his life in a world which starts by dismissing his ideas and ends by trying to steal them. Intellectual Property Rights are a vital part of marketing an invention.…
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Toys ARRRRGH! Us
Toys Arrrrgh Us… are earning quite a reputation for genetically modified toys. Here they dissect some kiddy toys to expose the beautiful, simple mechanisms inside.
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Build your own spectrometer
Use just a CD and kitchen roll tube. Then identify the mystery gases within the different lamps by looking at their spectra alone. Spectrometers are the most important tool in astronomy and astrophysics.…
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Visualising the Invisible
The nuclear structure physics group at the University of Brighton uses the techniques of gamma-ray spectroscopy to examine the structure of nuclei at the extremes of existence. Professor Alison Bruce explains all.…
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The Engineering Olympics
Can you perform at the highest level, rise to any challenge, overcome setbacks, be creative, and work as a team? Then you might have what it takes to an Olympian – from Invensys Eurotherm…
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Incredible Machine
Build a daft machine with levers and pulleys, string and weights, to send a signal round the room. The incredible machine builds up during the evening, becoming incredibler and incredibler.…
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