A child learning how to construct an electronic circuit at a funlab session.
The electronic funlabs are based on the Edinburgh Science Festival's MADLAB concept whereby children, some of whom have never seen a soldering iron in their lives, are invited to construct a simple electronic circuit and take it home with them. For example, they might construct a set of electronic bagpipes, a flashing light circuit, or a radio.
During the SET weeks of past years we have run this activity in the physics and astronomy department, in the Hunterian Museum at the University, and also in shopping centres. It has proven immensely popular with people, young and old, and usually runs alongside our science shows including Arcs and Sparks or Swings and Roundabouts.
