#comozilla

8 月 2 日にコモジラ研究所がSphero（ボール型ロボット）を使ったワークショップを開催しました。

Comozilla Lab provided a workshop to control Sphero over JavaScript. The workshop is about to control a robot in a maze.

The maze was built on wood board and PET bottles. Participants programmed a robot by detecting a wall. When robot touches a wall, participants have choices, back, turn right/left. Combination of those choices, participants can make robot out from the maze.

An award winning projection mapping Workshop teaching kit using Para Para animation is now listed on the Mozilla’s official activity list. Please take a look!

August 30th, Tokyo, “Co-Mozilla Lab” which is a project in Mozilla Factory, won the highest award at “6th kids workshop award“ in workshop collection 11″.  It is the biggest and oldest events focusing in workshop for kids since 2004. There were more than 100 workshops and over 100,000 people visited the event.

Members of Co-Mozilla Lab are all students. Not only university students but also there are high school, junior high and even elementary school students. Youngest member who customized Parapara animation’s User interface joined the project when he was 6th grade in elementary school. He joined a workshop last year as a participants and this year he is working as a member of the project. Participants and member are very close age and some of the participants join the project after the workshop.

Co-Mozilla lab provided a workshop called “Create your own handmade projection mapping“.  Participants made objects with paper cray then design and drew their animation with Parapara animation.  Parapara animation is a web based application developed by Mozilla Japan. Co-Mozilla Lab members( most of them are university students) used it for projection mapping and designed a teaching plan for workshop. Their activity is not only making object with Real(paper cray) but also Make Cyber(animation on computer) projection mapping. The mixing real and cyber is a good experience for young participants to learn that computer, smartphone, tablets are all tools to MAKE Something new!

We participated "au Firefox OS event" on December 23.  "au" is a mobile carrier which released the first Firefox OS phone in Japanese market.  In the event, the first Firefox OS phone in Japan was released.