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Step up your Arduino adventure at The Edge. Arduino is an open-source electronics platform that lets you create a wide range of interactive objects and projects. This workshop is the perfect follow-up to our Introductory Arduino 101 session, diving deeper into coding and prototyping. Some of the exciting things you can create with Arduino include robotics, controlling sensors and components, interactive games, automated tasks, and much more. This workshop is a great opportunity to learn about electronics, including inputs and outputs, and explore how computers, robots, and mechanical devices interact. Throughout the session, you’ll learn how to update and write your own code for Arduino microcontrollers. With basic programming knowledge, you’ll be able to elevate your electronics projects, add new features, and bring your creative ideas to life. A take-home workshop kit is available for an additional $25 to cover material costs, so you can continue experimenting with the Arduino open-source platform after the session. -- ABOUT 101 WORKSHOPS 101 skill development workshops give you the basic skills you need to start your new creative journey. Each workshop is delivered by an experienced facilitator and to participate in the workshops, intermediate computer skills, a willingness to learn and a little patience will see you underway. REQUIREMENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS WORKSHOP Participants must be over 16 years of age. Enclosed, flat footwear must be worn at all times in the Innovation lab. BEFORE YOU BOOK Please read through our Getting Started at The Edge page which includes terms of use. You’ll find answers to age restrictions, what to bring, what to do if you’re running late, refunds and more. Please become a State Library member before you arrive. If you already have a State Library member account, make sure you know your login details as you may be required to login during the workshop to access State Library computers, and to make bookings for equipment. Please contact us if you need support to participate in this event and consult State Library of Queensland's conditions of entry before making your booking. To find out more about what else is on offer, read up on The Edge and our make and design space. You can also subscribe to be the first to know about our future events.

Join us for a showcase tour of Deaf in dance: feeling the beat in kuril dhagun. A State Library staff member will give a guided tour of the showcase, sharing insights about the photographs, artworks and digital stories that are on display. About the showcase Experience the vibrant and rhythmically charged world of the Deaf Indigenous Dance Group (DIDG), Deaf in dance: feeling the beat shines a spotlight on the talent and accomplishments of DIDG through an exhibition of artworks and digital stories together with photographs from State Library's collection by photo-journalist Sean Davey. Book your space now!

Join us in celebrating outstanding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers when we welcome our two newest black&write! Fellows. Following a special award ceremony, hear about new work from First Nations writers and enjoy afternoon tea. The black&write! Fellowships offer two Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander writers each a $15,000 prize, manuscript development with State Library’s black&write! editorial team and a publishing opportunity with University of Queensland Press. We are pleased to have Che Skeen as our MC for this event. Che is a Wakka Wakka and Birri Gubba actor, playwright, author and creative producer. black&write! is assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, as well as the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. We are proud to work with University of Queensland Press as the black&write! Fellowship publishing partner. If you have any questions that aren’t answered here, feel free to contact State Library at productionteam@slq.qld.gov.au Subscribe to be the first to know about our program of events.