Blog
Year: 2015
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This year, Curtin University Library has implemented a strategic initiative to establish a makerspace and maker community through facilitating ‘making’ events, activities and projects, both within the library and the wider Curtin community, as well as seeking opportunities to engage with the community more broadly. Maker Community The main aim...
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When we heard about the annual International Games Day @ your library, Curtin Makers jumped at the chance to be involved and registered early to receive three free games. This worldwide event promotes the value of play and learning and provided an excellent opportunity to raise awareness of the Curtin...
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We are very proud to be featured in the latest episode of Curtin TV, which has a story about the activities around Loud Shirt Day. Curtin Makers participated in this worthwhile fundraising event by facilitating T-shirt painting workshops. Read more about the workshops.
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With its focus on the “Year of Light”, this year’s National Science Week provided Curtin Makers with the perfect opportunity to develop our maker community by celebrating the relationship between science and art through hands on activities based around the theme of light. With our interest in fostering a cross-disciplinary...
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We were pretty excited when Curtin Makers was asked to participate in the Curtin Creative Festival, which was held from 20-22 October. Facilitated by Park’d @ Curtin and Future Common the Festival had a range of activities running over three days, from book binding, puzzle building, spaceship construction, live art,...
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Humans of Curtin recently featured Curtin Library’s Marie Clarke, who did a wonderful job of conveying what our Library Makerspace is all about. Thanks Marie! http://curtinuniversity.tumblr.com/post/132514488003/the-library-makerspace-is-a-place-where-people
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The Curtin Library Makerspace was a hive of activity on the 14th October as plain white t-shirts were transformed into colourful artistic creations using spray paints and stencils, fabric markers and rubbing alcohol, buttons, glitter and much more. The occasion was Loud Shirt Day, when Curtin Library joined other areas...
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Join us at the Curtin Creative Festival
October 20th, 2015 by Library Makers Category: News and Events
It’s been very exciting in the MakerSpace lately as we prepare to participate in the Curtin Creative Festival, being held from the 20 – 22 October, from 11 – 2 pm at Atkinson Forum. We plan to be running a few fun activities over the three days in our outdoor...
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Loud Shirt Day is an awesome excuse to wear (or make) your brightest clothes to promote hearing awareness and raise funds for Telethon Speech and Hearing. Come along and try the fun Loud Shirt Day activities at the Library Makerspace on Wednesday 14 October 2015. Details Activity Date: Wed 14...
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Our first drop-in session - Arduinos!
September 13th, 2015 by Library Makers Category: News and Events
Are you interested in tinkering with electronics? Then come along on Wednesday 12 – 2 pm to the Library Makerspace’s first drop-in session! This week’s focus is on using Arduinos. Arduino is “an open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software… intended for anyone making interactive projects.” We’ll introduce...