Activities2006
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- Orienteering type stuff
- With OpenStreetMap we could map the local area, wherever it is.
- 'Wide games' with mobile phones, GPS etc would be cool. (e.g. Pacmanhattan)
- GPS vs. ESP orienteering challenges
- RFID letterboxing (http://spacehijackers.org/letterboxing/)
- 9v Dorkestra - bring a battery-powered instrument and have a jam.
- Ludditey/old skool non-electronic stuff
- making tools, rope skills, knife skills, survival skills etc. (a grown up scout camp)
- Heath Robinson device / Rube Goldberg machine contest (e.g. lifesize version of Mouse Trap).
- Algorithmic/generative art in real life. Rangolis (http://dataisnature.com/?p=85), crop circles, etc.
- Food hacks. What's the most elaborate thing you can cook on an open fire? Exciting things to cook (like cinder toffee). Jam
- Making fire with sticks.
- Fire poi. Juggling. Kites. Bottle rockets. Home made fireworks. Remote control aircraft. Paper boat making. Astronomy navigating by the stars?).
- doing things by bicycle power that are usually done by electricity? I've had a long standing idea to build an adaptor that allows a bicycle to turn a woodlathe that is built on-site (along the lines of a spring-pole lathe )
- Photography/video stuff
- Kite photography
- Making a balloon to support a camera for really high shots (need lots of string and tissue paper, dope and a basket)
- long exposure LED drawings/light paintings (if somewhere really dark)
- Generating electricity
- making electronic animals that can live outdoors on renewable energy (http://www.strandbeest.com/ ?) http://www.ralfschreiber.com/jade/solar-sound-modul./solarsound-modul.html !!
- Informal Presentations
- long distance WLAN (Hot-spot) testing.(If anyone got Laptop with NetStumbler program AND
- external antena socket please bring it for a test)
- Hands-on Workshops
- Swimming - on your own or Mark offers to try to teach anyone to swim in an hour, or drownproof in five minutes. For learning swimming, you need to bring a kick board or a bit of polystyrene that you find on a street corner (preferably not too clunkily shaped)
- Tree climbing
- Foraging for wild food - There is plenty to eat in the woods at this time of year we'll find out if the beach nuts are ready, look for lichen a natural antibiotic, and try eating things that look like they might be edible but equally could killl us.
- Automatic wildlife photography
- Detecting bats' ultrasonic sounds
- Tai chi
- swap shop/trading corner
- Hacking/circuitbending an old Yamaha musical keyboard. Each note works a single pole changeover switch ideal for controlling motors, lights, pyrotechnics....With 48 notes it could be one note per camper ?
