Science Museum

Video from the Human Body exhibit. Great for engaging kids.

Signage from the Calculus exhibit

Robot

Sign from the Disease Detectives

Emma's Adventure to the Science Musuem Pt 2

I found it interesting that we were trying to dispel robot stereotypes...this sure looks a lot like a human.


Last week we learned to take things to the extreme if we had a doubt in physics. It seems as though museum creators feel the same. It is doubtful that people won't notice this display.

Emma's Adventure to the Science Musuem

A great way to make a sign interactive


Is that a real stomach?


The flip book format made it easier to cram in a lot of information with a little amount of space.






The Microbe display caught my attention. The four pictures below are from the display.



Some background information about some experts in the microbe field. The magnify glasses were all over the exhibit area introducing visitors to real-life health experts.



Another great form of signage. This sign is describing how certain features about our bodies, for example blood, help protect us from harmful microbes.


Here I am dancing the Microbe dance. Only after Pang and I successfully complete the quiz did I get to dance (it took us two tries). This was located right at the entrance of the exhibit. It is a great way to engage younger people because it uses the DDR format.

The arrow pad that I am standing on is an example of a robot. By standing on a certain arrow I was able to answer the questions on the screen.



This is the cheat sheet that they had posted by the Microbe Quiz station. The separate pieces of paper, picture, and bolded microbe names all made it easier to reference the information quickly as I was completing the quiz.

Science Museum Signage!

A giant replica of a head louse! Yikes! Show this to a kid and they will never want to share hats or clothing again! The flip chart to the right was also an organized and easy way to provide information about head lice and their parasitic ways!

"They're just trying to make a living." Jill Welter

Fun dinner?
Not your typical menu!
This is such a neat signage which allows visitors to not only read about harmful bacteria, but they can also learn about where they may encounter some of these bacteria in their everyday life.

This neat robot allow visitors to control the light source through an isolating handle. The light shines through each circular frame and the visible colors of light is displayed underneath the screen (which is graphing the wavelength of the light).

The Science Museum@

This neat gadget displays the temperature of your forehead. It's really the Raytek gun in disguise reading your temperature with infrared radio waves!

Zoo Day!!!

Look at these guys swim! Isn't it amazing, a mammal that lives underwater!




































Put your money in and get a snack out. Is it magic? No! Its a robot.

Doesn't that sign look inviting! Lets watch the birds.

Wouldn't it be nice if everything had an easy button?

Minnesota Zoo Robots and Signage

"Spin your Thoughts"

"The heat beneath the surface."

"Estuary: What does that mean?"

"A Robotic Faucet? What will they think of next?"

Day at the Zoo - Part 2

Compare your posture to a macaque!

Dolphins like robots too! That means that they are smarty pants!

This robot keeps us warm in the winter and cool in the summer!

Bears use their long tounges to get to the honey inside the tree!

Day at the Zoo

Spread your arms to find out what bird's wing span most resembles yours!

Although these animals are extinct, their history was saved within the layers of the earth.

Now we use their fossils to learn more about evolution.

Lights are something that you use in your every day life but some people use them in their job, to enhance shows. They are controlled through a switch board.

Sometimes we use fire to stay warm, other times to cook our food, but sometimes fire gets out of control and we need fire alarms to warn us of danger and turn on the sprinklers

You can find robots where you least expect it. Try to figure out how this could be one.

What are all our muscles doing with all that electricity?

Is this a robot? It is the film projector for the omnitheater at the science museum. it could be automatic and it certainly is a machine. What do you think?

Do you like musical stairs, well they have some at the Science Museum in St. Paul!

Robot Capture #1: Automatic Doors

When was the last time you walked through an automatic door? Did you know you were interacting with a robot when you did? Why do you think engineers designed automatic doors? Where are they most useful? What are the drawbacks of automatic doors?
You might be wondering how automatic doors work. Most use devices that sense your presence by either bouncing some wave off you or by passively detecting waves that you emit or reflect. The wave-bouncing detectors emit high frequency (ultrasonic) sound waves or radio waves and then look for reflections. If they detect changes in the intensity or frequency pattern of the reflected waves, they know that something has moved nearby and open the door. The passive detectors look for changes in the infrared or visible light patterns reaching a detector and open the door when they detect such changes.
From: http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/search.php?searchs=automatic+doors&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&searchq=yes&searcha=yes