Project status: Delivery Ready. More work needed on documentation.
Building LED powered puppets and mini-stage lighting to put on a show. These sessions mix craft skills, art practices, storytelling and some elements of programming LED lights. The process can be open in scope or themed around stories concerning environmental or social issues.
See here for details of a pilot project at the Makery workshop in Todmorden
Topics explored: Environmental or social issues, safe and appropriate tool use, electronics
Tools used: Arts and craft materials, glue guns, stories, Microcontroller (Crumble), LEDS, Arcade buttons
Notes for Improvement: More work is needed to create resources to make the project easily replicable by others.