MAKESHOP is a one-of-a-kind workshop space where people of all ages can explore and experiment with design, science, art and technology. It’s also a shop, selling kits and materials for your own projects, to get you making at home. MAKESHOP has a permanent space in Trinity College Dublin, and we are popping up in Belfast city centre for NI Science Festival, bringing hands-on workshops in DIY robotics, coding, soldering and more to anyone with a curious mind and an interest in making. Here are a few highlights:

• Create interactive art: Design posters that play music when touched, and greeting cards that light up

• Make things that move: Learn how to assemble a simple circuit and use it to power robots that can move, draw, or fire paper planes

• Learn to solder: Find out how to attach electronic components to a circuit board and build LED torches and other fun electronics projects