Leave No Trace

We are currently trying to come up with some ideas for the digital activities that will be taking place during Digital Summer and as part of the Leave No Trace exhibition. We already have quite a bit of software so I’m working around finding new ways to use it, or at least new themes.

Having said that there are two new toys we are researching, CrazyTalk6 with which you can make your own characters talk and make facial expressions. And Arduino, which the website describes as

‘Arduino is a tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world than your desktop computer. It’s an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple microcontroller board, and a development environment for writing software for the board.’

We are also currently experimenting with a new ‘Things To Do’ page on the museum website, to try and get people using the website and get them a bit more involved with what’s happening at the museum. We like to try and keep the activities themed to the exhibitions that will be on at the Museum during the workshops, so for digital summer we have ‘Spot On for 25 years’ celebrating 25 years of Emma Bridgewater and ‘…and a five legged donkey’ celebrating 100 years of the Contemporary Art Society. We have put up activities for both of these on the museum website ‘Things To Do’ page. They are not strictly speaking ‘digital’ activities, but they will have a digital outcome eventually as we are going to display all contributions on the website.