The MakerMindset Programme aims to
Student Maker Forum
Eligibility: PolyU & CPCE staff and students
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Creating 3D Model in Blender Video Recording (PolyU staff and students only) Blender is an open source 3D content creation suite, which supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline - modelling, animation, simulation, rendering, motion tracking and game creation. In this forum, Mr Jimmy Tsoi will share his experience on creating a 3D model of nuclear plant control room with Blender for his award-winning VR game - “Chernobyl Disaster”. He will also demonstrate how to generate multiple buildings on a tailor-made terrain in a short amount of time with particle system. This is a computer graphic technique commonly used for simulating fuzzy objects such as cloud, fire and water.
About the speaker: Mr Jimmy Tsoi, a third year undergraduate student from the Department of Health Technology and Informatics, is fascinated by game development. He has joined the 2020/21 VR Contest organised by Pao Yue-kong Library and won the champion with his teammate. Jimmy has learnt more about scene design, 3D modelling and colour selection when developing the game.
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27 Jan 2022 (Thurs) | 2.30-5.00pm |
Online via Zoom
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VR & AR Contest
Eligibility: PolyU & CPCE students
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VR Interaction in Unity - Beginner Level Video Recording (PolyU staff and students only) VR Interaction in Unity - Advanced Level Video Recording (PolyU staff and students only)
About the speaker: Ms Elaine Yu graduated from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University with a BEng (Hons) in Product Engineering with Marketing. During her university study, she designed products with Design Thinking and won The Most Popular Design Award, Product and Technology Design Competition by Philips and PolyU. After she graduated, she worked in 3 listed conglomerates in training and development team for a wide range of industries, including but not limited to energy, food and beverage, retails, property, telecoms. She also worked in AI start up and Listed IT company as Business Analyst. She got Master of Arts in Values Education at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and is currently the Founder of WeTreat. |
16 Feb 2022 (Wed) 23 Feb 2022 (Wed) |
2.30-5.00pm 2.30-5.00pm |
Online via Zoom
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29 Sep 2021 (Wed) |
3:00 – 5:00 PM |
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Internet of Things (IoT) - Controlling LED with Blynk (Quota: 8) |
30 Sep 2021 (Thu) |
3:00 – 5:00 PM |
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AI Application Workshop – Embedded AI Product Design (Quota: 8) |
7 Oct 2021 (Thu) |
3:00 – 5:00 PM |
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20 Oct 2021 (Wed) |
2:00 – 5:00 PM |
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Student Maker Forum: Internet-of-Things of Medication Reminder Smart Watch for the Elderly |
4 Nov 2021 (Thu) |
2:30 – 3:30 PM |
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Deadline for Submission 10 Jun 2022 (Fri)
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11 Oct 2021 (Mon) |
3:00 - 5:00 PM |
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22 Oct 2021 (Fri) |
2:00 - 5:00 PM |
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29 Oct 2021 (Fri) |
2:00 - 5:00 PM |
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| Creating Full Color Stickers with Vinyl Cutter | ||||
The workshop gives you the opportunity to create full color stickers with a vinyl cutter.
If you are interested, please refer to the online self-learning resources to know more about the use of Vinyl Cutter at Digital Makerspace. |
| Internet of Things (IoT) Controlling LED with Blynk | |||||||||
Some IoT controllers are capable to serve as a web server, and able to communicate with other electronic devices within a private network. In this workshop, you will learn:
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An Artificial Intelligence (AI) model can be implemented into memory limited hardware. This workshop will teach you how to design AI product with vision or audio input to identify object you would like to focus. You could customize your product with the technique after you finished the workshop. In this workshop, you will learn:
About the speaker: Silas Hung is a professional electronic engineer for 25 years. He specializes in electronic engineering, material analysis and photonics analysis. He founded Cloud-LED lighting technology limited in recent years.
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| Innovative Thinking & Cardboard Design | ||||
"STEM is everywhere – all around us in our everyday lives". STEM skills will enrich your ability to make data-driven decisions and work through challenges whether you are developing your career or pursuing your hobby.
About the speaker: Mr Tang (STEM Sir) is an experienced teacher who received Outstanding IT Teacher Award in 2015. He is also a visiting lecturer in EDUHK & HKBU, emcee of children's television program and the author of parents-children webpage, newspaper column, STEM comics and books. Currently he is the honorary president of Asia Children Education Association, member of Children Chiropractic Foundation Limited Broad and STEM Education Consultant in Community Creativity Learning Centre of The Boys' & Girls' Clubs Association of Hong Kong. |
| Student Maker Forum: Internet-of-Things of Medication Reminder Smart Watch for the Elderly | |||
In this seminar, Ms Isabel Kemp, a student from the Department of Computing will share how she incorporated a medication reminder in a smart watch for the elderly. Using M5Stack devices and the Blynk mobile application, the smart watch notifies them of the types and amount of medicines to take. Once the elderly patients follow suit, a record of their medical adherence will be automatically saved to Google Sheets by pressing the button on the watch. The Medication Reminder Smart Watch ensures that the medication prescribed by doctors is taken at the correct times of the day and in the correct dosages, with a monitoring system that helps keep them on track. Through this experience, Isabel has learnt more about the role technology plays in the healthcare system, and how innovative ideas and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices could benefit the lives of others.
Ms Isabel Kemp, a 4th year undergraduate student from the Department of Computing majoring in Computing, is fascinated by IoT and how it helps different sectors of the community. She has participated in various workshops and student projects of MakerMindset Programme@i-Space. |
| AI Literacy - Understanding and Creating your First AI Application | |||||
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the technology that uses machine intelligence to simulate human intelligence in performing tasks and solving problems. AI Technology has broad implications as a disruptive force that is reshaping the world and changing the ways humans live and work in the future.
About the speaker: Dr Henry So is senior lecturer of the Department of Mathematics and Information Technology at the Education University of Hong Kong. Throughout his years of teaching at EdUHK, he has designed courses and instructional materials for modern Educational Technology and STEM education changes. He is responsible for programme and curriculum design and promoting social awareness in an authentic context. His research interests include AI Education, IT in education, STEM education, simulation-based learning, mobile learning, mobile apps development, digital health, health informatics, machine learning and data analytics. He provides quality teaching to foster student success and offers personalized self-directed learning recommendations in his area of expertise. |
| Introduction of Augmented Reality | |||
Augmented Reality is an enhanced version of the real-world environment through the use of digital visual element, computer-generated perceptual information and sensory stimuli.
In the workshop, you can:
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| 3D Modelling in SketchUp (Beginner / Advanced) | ||||||
In these workshops, you will learn:
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The Library is organising a series of talks and workshops. By participating in these series of talks and workshops, you will be able to pick up skills to develop your own VR story.
Deadline for Submission : 10 Jun 2022
What is the Maker Mindset? What makes a Maker?
Makers have a strong curiosity about the things around them. They are curious in trying to understand how things work and have a strong desire to experiment and improve the things and situation around them.
People with Maker Mindset are self-directed learners and this is why schools are actively encouraging students to develop this maker mindset - so that students can learn from this creative process and embrace mistakes as a valuable opportunity to improve their ideas and, ultimately, themselves as individuals.
More resources for Maker Mindset:
Design Thinking is a problem-solving approach for designers to reach desirable solutions to match people’s needs while emphasizing on human-centered design.
It also considers what is desirable from users’ point of view, how users will interact with products and offer a solution based on the emotional state of users. It also encourages brainstorming and especially rewards thinking out-of-the-box.
Design Thinking is not limited to designers, but is also relevant to other fields such as engineering, architecture, business, information technology, education, healthcare, law and many other professions where the process of design can be applied to either a product or a service.
The Design Thinking cycle includes Empathize, Define (the problem), Ideate, Prototype and Test, and this cycle would be useful for those who are planning to work and test on a prototype.
Here are some videos on Design Thinking:
