• Question: What did you want to make when you were little, or when you were just leaving school? and what did you make when you left school?

    Asked by whitburndan12 to Cathy on 16 Jun 2014.
    • Photo: Cathy Fraser

      Cathy Fraser answered on 16 Jun 2014:


      Hi there

      When I was little (probaby 5-12) I loved taking things to pieces rather than making them! I’d take old radios and computers to pieces as I loved looking at all the resistors, capacitors and other pieces inside and trying to work out what they did!

      When I got a bit older I made a few basic circuits – buzzers, doorbells, weather sensors. Finally when I went to university I got to make things like small micromice (robots that follow white lines) and for my final project I made a display for a car (like the ones with sat-nav, radio and climate control) using hardware, software and a car rig we’d designed!

      Now I don’t get that much time to work on my projects aside from fixing things that break at home – I would love to build a kit car at some point!

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