The following is the schedule for the Science Sunday gatherings at 3PM. This month we will be doing a collaboration with Sewing/Vector to do black oxide on ferrous metal parts. Please do register on the calendar if possible as that helps with planning and preparations. Thanks!
Schedule:
March-02-2025 - Golden Pennies
https://calendar.dallasmakerspace.org/events/view/24096
March-09-2025: Eddy Current Penny Sorter and Exploration of Entropy and Randomness
Thanks to @Zachrandir for the suggestion for the fun activity. Entropy and randomness interactive class postponed to this week.
https://calendar.dallasmakerspace.org/events/edit/24202
March-16-2025: Monthly Committe Meeting + Vapor Smoothing Chamber Working Session
https://calendar.dallasmakerspace.org/events/view/23579
March-23-2025: Ferrous Metal Black Oxide Coating (with Vector/Sewing)
$10 Fee for hands on participation.
https://calendar.dallasmakerspace.org/events/view/24095
March-30-2025: Modifying a “Nerf” Toy with a Grapple Claw
https://calendar.dallasmakerspace.org/events/view/24097
Additional Information and Pictures from the Events May be Periodically Posted Below.
March-09: Eddy Current Penny Sorter + Entropy and Randomness.
Class: How the Sausage Is Made: An Experimental Journey through Entropy, Randomness, Chance, Uncertainty, and Sampling (Teacher: Kevin Thompson)
For this Science Sunday, we are going to do some very basic but powerful experiments that will allow us to intuitively explore the phenomenon of randomness, chance, uncertainty, and how we can characterize these things.
We’ll use experiments to constructively explore (often without arriving at a final answer) questions such as:
What is randomness?
What is chance?
What is the relationship between randomness and chance?
- Examples of Randomness and Chance together
- Examples of Chance without Randomness
- Examples of Randomness without Chance
To what extent can we even describe randomness and chance? Is probability theory sufficient?
How is uncertainty connected to randomness and chance?
How far can chance be used to analogically reason about or describe deterministic phenomena?
How much of science is about facts and how much of it is about interpretation? Should this have an impact on the authority we give to scientists and the scientific community?
What does this all mean practically for the investigator, the engineer, scientist, or the citizen inquirer?
Zinc Plated Penny Forming Brass Alloy on Hot Plate:
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