![]() Andy had been tweeting about Node RED and saying it was an easy way to program. Lucy Rogers: I started to follow Andy Stanford-Clark through Twitter. Question: What prompted you to start using Raspberry Pi and Node-RED together? It was the Raspberry Pi that really helped unravel the mystery. That was when the light-bulb went on – literally. Lucy Rogers: Many years after I graduated, I was introduced to the Raspberry Pi and an Arduino. Question: It is clear you overcame your initial reticence. As much as I wanted to make things and do things that involved electronics and computing, it seemed out of my reach. It seemed beyond me and I didn’t like it, which is why I stuck with mechanical engineering. Lucy Rogers: When I was at university I did take a couple of electronics and computing modules. Can you tell us when and how you started to explore the world of electronics? Question: You studied mechanical engineering, but you are now involved with electronics. It was that mentality that ultimately lead me to my engineering degree at university. ![]() That was when he looked at me and declared I had won the round.įrom very early on I have been interested in combining practical things with fun things. When I finally managed it, the popper went off nearly hitting my teacher in the face. The trolley was supposed to go down the ramp, hit the stool that my party popper was sitting on, and set it off. I remember quite vividly setting a party popper off while trying to push a little trolley down a ramp. ![]() The Great Egg Race was based on a 1980s TV program where a group of people would come together to use the equipment in the lab to make a Heath Robinson or Rube Goldberg type of contraption whose entire purpose was to move a common chicken’s egg from one point of the room to another. The reason why my physics teacher suggested I attend the engineering course was due to my involvement with a school club called the Great Egg Race. I first became interested in engineering when I was 17 and my physics teacher suggested I attend an engineering insight course that was run by an organization called Women in Science and Engineering. Lucy Rogers: I’m a mechanical engineer by training – having obtained a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering at Lancaster University. Question: What inspired you to get involved in engineering? Lucy Rogers to learn more about how she has been integrating and evolving her interests in building and connecting things with science, technology, engineering and IoT. It was a terrific experience sitting down with an eclectic group of Makers – ranging from novice developers, to Master Inventors, programmers, and several rocket scientists – gathered together to make a day of wiring up things – from dinosaurs to LED lights, using Raspberry Pis and Node-RED.Īfterwards, I had a chance to sit down with Makertorium Ltd. In June, I had the pleasure of attending one of Lucy Rogers’ Hack a Dinosaur Raspberry Pi Jams held at the Blackgang Chine Theme Park on the Isle of Wight.
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