[Robotgroup] broken toy autopsys

[brooksdesign]

  Marble Falls is located in the hill country about 45 minutes west of Austin at the junction of 1431 and 281. I'll check out the screwdriver kits and see if the library would pony up the cash for them. They were wanting me to schedule another one right away and for a 2 or 3 hour session since we were starting to make stuff work when we had to go. The group may want to consider something like this for the Austin area events as it is a great way to teach the kids how things work. Plus the parents were amazed to see how much fun the kids were having taking things apart.
-brooks

-----Original Message-----
>From: Andre Lamothe <ceo at nurve.net>
>Sent: Jun 4, 2008 1:59 AM
>To: The Robot Group Mailing List <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
>Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] broken toy autopsys
>
>Where exactly is this location?
>
>Also, this or similar sites might have something good:
>
>http://web.liquidation.com/auction/search?submit=Search&cmd=keyword&words=screwdrivers
>
>Is 25 kits for $100, $4 a kit, and they are pretty complete, can't tell if 
>they have mini-jewelers drivers though.
>
>Andre'
>
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "brooksdesign" <brooksdesign at peoplepc.com>
>To: <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:14 AM
>Subject: [Robotgroup] broken toy autopsys
>
>
>> Hey kids,
>>  If I were to schedule another Broken Toy Autopsy Day in Marble Falls for 
>> a saturday would anyone be able to make it? I had about 25 kids(3rd to 5th 
>> graders) show up today and it was alot of fun but I was totaly overwelmed. 
>> We managed to take apart a bunch of broken CD and tape players, fax 
>> machines, walking dragons, and cameras. They did a great job of pulling 
>> the useable motors out and hook them up to the battery packs and see them 
>> turn. The Library gave us a big box of computer parts for the kids that 
>> didn't have anything to take apart so we had a bunch of potential secret 
>> drawers that would slide out and back(cd tray mechanisems almost allway 
>> still work). We'll see what they end up doing with them.
>> -brooks
>> P.S. Anyone know where I could get jewelers phillips head screwdrivers in 
>> bulk cheap?
>>
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