Our Workshops
Design Furniture for a CNC mill
Adults
Starts 17th July 2017
Event wanted to design a chair? In this course, we begin with a manufacturing technique (CNC milling) and design a chair to suit. We test scale versions of our design on our own CNC machine, and at the end of the course, we commission full scale versions on a commercial CNC machine.
Book NowBeyond Bitcoin- Exploring the Blockchain
Adults
Starts 9th October 2017
Heard about Bitcoin and want to know more? Don't know where to start? Join us as we explore the 'blockchain', what it is, what it can do, and more importantly what it *might* do. We learn by throwing ourselves in the deep end and building things with the blockchain.
Book NowSpinoza as a children’s book
Adults
Starts 4th November 2017
As part of our 'translate a philosopher into a child's book' series, we will read, explore, and interpret Spinoza's seminal text "The Ethics". We do a lot of discussion, lots of writing and some illustration!
Book NowBlog
Hello World on the Ethereum Blockchain
Anyone attempting to learn and explore the Ethereum blockchain will quickly come across some difficult hurdles. The first of these is, of course, the difficulty inherent in getting one’s head around the paradigm shift that is blockchain technology. The second is that the software implementation is rather complex and the third is that the documentation[…]
Why Build Pablo this School Holidays?
This July School Holidays we will be partnering with Wollongong Art Gallery again to offer our creative robotics program. In this 4 day workshop during the second week (July 11-14) students aged 10-14 are invited to build there own ‘Pablo’ – our custom designed programmable drawing machine (or robot). In this workshop students spend their[…]
Creative Robotics issue of the Fibreculture Journal
The Fibreculture Journal of which I am a managing editor has just published this interesting issue on Creative Robotics. I particularly enjoyed Katarina Damjanov’s paper FCJ-205 Life and Labour of Rovers on Mars: Toward Post-Terrestrial Futures of Creative Robotics but there are some great papers throughout including one describing the use of robotics in education. Here’s a little[…]
Pablo the Robot Draws Warilla High Students Into High-Tech Future
A locally-developed robot called Pablo will see Warilla High School students explore creativity and technology in an exciting new program to run at the school in 2017. Warilla High School is partnering with Polygon Door, a resident company in the University of Wollongong’s iAccelerate program. Founded by two UOW academics – Polygon Door will work[…]
July School Holidays at Wollongong Art Gallery – Filling Fast
Come and explore beyond the screen at our Code and Creative Machines workshop for 10-15 year olds this July school holidays in partnership with Wollongong Art Gallery. Places are extremely limited and filling fast so book now. More info: Coding & Creative Machines at Wollongong Art Gallery This course is more than about learning to code and its[…]
Art Bot Thoughts
One of our Artbot for Adults lab is a potter thinking through the possibility of combining his practice as a potter with an arduino controlled harmonograph to etch, draw, or paint on the surface of his large bowl works. He found the video above as inspiration -but is looking at pushing this idea a lot[…]
Our Business Model
We know where ideas come from At Polygon Door our core competency is an understanding of creative thinking and its relation to technology; we know where ideas come from. Our strategy is to design uniquely creative technology kits, publications, and educational programs (including schools programs, and corporate innovation skills programs) that encourage creative play and[…]
HackySoc Kit
Kit Price: $96 This kit provides internet-connectedness to the Arduino platform. In combination with the HackySoc software, it can be used as an internet-connected messaging device that interfaces seamlessly with 1) existing internet infrastructure and 2) existing electronic componentry. It is designed to serve the HackySoc research project and the Labs that depend on it. HackySoc[…]
Research Led.
When we founded Polygon Door we made a determination that all our courses would be ‘research-led’. We made this determination because Polygon Door was conceived as much more than a simple education provider, it was conceived as a critical and creative technology lab: an organisation that pushes the boundaries of how technology is understood and used.[…]
Robots! Sensors! Lasers! Music! What a way to spend your Holidays.
Our Holiday Camp was an amazing experience full of surprises and important lessons- for Etienne and I as much as for our wonderful students. In designing the course we imagined a playful space in which we empowered students to explore their own creativity through and with technology. We didn’t anticipate just how clever and creative[…]
OUR TEAM
Mat Wall-Smith
Dr. Etienne Deleflie
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