22/08/2023
Creative writing continued with Mss Munir and the imagination of the Young Adventurers kept growing. One fascinating story was told by one of them and there was an ant hill, a family of 50,000 members and that brought back the work of Richard Powers, Overstory and an interview he did with Barbara Kingsolver, back to mind. For that Young Adventurer to be thinking beyond us, to include the little things that matter that we mostly take for granted in her story, I was happy.
There are other stories too ranging from fantasy world-building and dialoguing to historical twists giving off the vibe in Atwood's work.
Later there was an introduction to robotics using Microcontrollers like Arduino and Raspberry Pi. Followed by a brief talk on design thinking.
A brief historical talk was part of it. Works on Ismail Al-Jazari and many others.
ISMAIL AL-JAZARI (1136–1206)
Ismail Al-Jazari was a polymath: a scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, artisan, artist, and mathematician from the Artuqid Dynasty of Jazira in Mesopotamia.
The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices is a medieval Arabic book written by Ismail al-Jazari in the 12th century. It describes over fifty mechanical devices and automata, including clocks, water-raising machines, musical automatons, and humanoid robots.
Al-Jazari provides detailed instructions for constructing each device and includes anecdotes and historical references. The book had a significant influence on the development of European clockmaking and automata, offering insights into daily life and technological innovations in the Islamic world during the medieval period. It’s his book that influenced key concepts of modern-day robotics.
We are building, and bringing young minds to creative innovation. We can do this together.
The image attached melds the past with the present.
