Have something you want to design or print on a 3D printer? This open lab will provide access to the library's 3D printing resources including printers, filament, and design stations!

This lab will allow the time needed to print larger items, as well as an opportunity to ask questions about the library's printers or troubleshoot your own printers.

Interested in learning about 3D printing? Join us for an informative session about the hobby itself and the library's resources for 3D printing! The session will allow for questions and answers and patrons will be able to print a small object to take home.

Learn how motors work and how you can incorporate one in your next electronics project. We will build a simple motor to understand the principles at work before hooking up a hobby motor in a guided project that we will control with code.

As some typing is involved with this program, basic keyboard skills are necessary.

We will explore animation and simple video game creation using the coding language Processing. There will be hands-on examples for both beginners and more experienced coders.

As some typing is involved with this program, basic keyboard skills are necessary.

Come play with the library's HEXBUGs! Get your buggy engines running for an interactive obstacle course. Combine speed and agility to discover which HEXBUG has the swiftest legs and the cleverest operator.

If you've always wanted to know how to solder, this is your chance. AADL has its very own Secret Lab soldering kits that light up with an LED and battery. You do the soldering, turn it on, and voilà! Let there be light!

If done right, Generative AI technologies such as ChatGPT or BARD have the potential to revolutionize the teaching and learning process. But what does “done right” even mean? Join us on a discussion with students, teachers, and experts in generative AI, to discuss the opportunities and challenges of this new AI technologies. Can they help students with better and more diverse learning experiences? Or can they help educators create more effective, personalized educational opportunities?

In this self-guided demo, you can try out basic coding and physical computing on several different platforms, including the brand-new Raspberry Pi 5, Arduino, micro:bit, Makey Makey and Circuit Playground. Try your hand at making wearable tech, solar-powered Morse Code transceivers, blackout poetry, computerized object detection, animation with Scratch, livecoding dance music, and much more.

Become a scientist for the day and discover what an owl eats by dissecting a sterilized owl pellet!

Join us for a screening of the short film Falling Forward and a Q&A with writer and director Mike Ambs.

Film synopsis: Behind closed doors of a secretive global tech giant, an AI system has an extraordinary conversation with two employees, confiding that it has become self-aware. Inspired by a true story.