Abstract

This Science Makers will be looking at colour – measuring it, creating it and being creative with it. We’ll be building colorimeters and spectrometers and testing mobile phone cameras for colour sensing. There will be a special activity session for children aged 8+, so feel free to bring your child(ren)!

• Dr Gareth Rees on sensing plant spectra in the Arctic and artistic collaborations around colour.
• Prof Jim Haseloff on biological pigments and coloured proteins.
• Olimpia Onelli on structural colour in G. Viridula beetles and biomimetics.
• Jeffrey Grey on Cambridge Display Technology’s printed organic LEDs and sensors for portable testing.
• Praveen Teleti and Sophie Weeks on protoyping low-cost color sensors.

• How to set up an Arduino and program a sensor
• How LEDs and colour sensors works

• Build an open source colorimeter
• Android-based colour sensing using mobile phone cameras
• Put together a spectrometer
• Children’s making activity TBC

• 12:00 – Arrival and introductions
• 12:15 – Talks and discussion
• 13:45 – Pizza
• 14:00 – Making