The project is coming along fairly well, we've been defining the project a bit more in depth now, and have a fairly clear idea of what we would like the project to be. It will be twice a week, for two hours per session, a drop in area where people can come in and learn how to build drones. It will be a three-week cycle, meaning that it will probably take about three weeks to build the drone, learn all of the safety and privacy information, do the programming, and then flying. However, due to the target audience of the project, we aren't having specific sessions and classes, and an attitude that attendance is mandatory. Early school leavers will not be interested in going to a library and be lectured at, and they probably won't turn up all the time either. There will be an instructor in the room at all times, but users will be able to work at their own pace. The idea of a MakerSpace is to encourage people to work creatively and imaginatively with technology that they may not have used before, and so we have decided that it isn't necessary to have too much structure in the sessions.
After we have finalised the project itself, we then have to work out the budget. I have volunteered to do this (with someone else, of course, because I'm not great at maths and I need a supervisor), really as a way to get out of having to do the class presentation. It was that or the marketing side of things, which I have no idea about at all. So I'm going to have to start pricing things, beginning with drones and staffing costs, because they're going to be the major expenditures.
Anyway, here's a real drone attack:
Hilarious! I think that we should put that in our marketing campaign.
