Sammy is moving into a new lab next year. She’s had it repainted as an all-white cube and we’re going to fit new desks around the perimeter. There’s also a little space for displaying stuff…
Any ideas for things we could buy? Need to be reasonably cheap and useful or inspirational. For example, I’ve just ordered a big RGB LED matrix that we can hook up to a Raspberry Pi that students can write software for - tfl countdown api, that sort of thing. We’ll probably get some rgb led strips connected to a networked arduino as well.
Does anyone have any vintage computer gear we could display? I’m thinking of things like a BBC Micro, C64, that sort of thing.
A little avant-garde perhaps, but some DMX stage lighting can be surprisingly cheap, gives a lot of impact and leads to thoughts of use outside of a lab environment.
@Matthew_Stannard Commodore Pet 2001 with the cassette tape drive was the first computer I ever bought to learn to program on. I had to repair the display memory first and it came with all the old manuals.
I can dig it out of my attic. It was working when I put it up there. I remember I found it on the street many years ago - someone was chucking it out, would you believe? Am happy to loan it to SLMS.
If you want set dressing one of these would look great.
I remember pc world magazine raving over it when it came out.
A portable personel computer. Osbourne executive personel computer
Look at tjose floppies.
I feel as though I’m on Antiques Roadshow, Gordon. I’ll be in London on Friday, but I don’t know how to get into the Makerspace if there’s no one there.