Cooking with Gas!

FifeX has continued its work at Stirling Castle and has recently been contributing to the improvements in the castle's kitchens.

On the right, Keiron is re-attaching one of the large recipe books to a table.

As well as looking better, the place is also smelling better as a result of some new scent units installed by FifeX. Stirling Castle has developed its own 'baking bread' smell - it has to be smelled to be believed!

FifeX @ Stirling Castle

FifeX is delighted to be working for Historic Scotland, doing some repair work at Stirling Castle. Here, Ken is inspecting one of the interactives in the vaults underneath the Palace.

Flood Risk Models

A few years ago, FifeX worked on a fantastic project with Heriot-Watt University and Dr. Grant Wright. (We're actually working on something else with him right now - news to follow shortly). Anyway, the large water models took a huge amount of work and at the time we didn't get many photos of them. Last week we discovered this video which has some great shots of one of the models in action and also has some more information about the educational value of the models and some comments from the Scottish Government who have been big supporters of the work that Grant and his team are doing. If nothing else, the dramatic music is great!

Royal Society Planning!

FifeX was delighted to be asked to speak once again at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition Planning Day. A number of incredibly exciting scientists come together to show their work every year at the Royal Society during July and yesterday was when the preparations really began for July 2014. FifeX has been involved in this exhibition a number of times and yesterday we spoke about budgets and planning. We spoke to a few exhibitors and some of the exhibitions for this year sound fantastic. If you're around in London at the start of July, you should really stop by - the website is here and details will start to emerge over the next couple of months.

Pedal Power

FifeX has just finished PEDAL POWER for Northamptonshire County Council.

This energy bike is going into their new centre alongside a small hand generator that we built at the end of 2013.

The bike allows people to power a small radio, fan and even a heater if they can muster up enough energy!

There are no conversions or fancy electronics - this bike and the user's power are all that is needed to make it work.

Wha's Like Us?

Last week, FifeX was pleased to attend the official opening of Wha's Like Us?, which is the new winter exhibition at the National Library of Scotland.

"A Nation of Dreams and Ideas". The exhibition designed by Stuco gives a fantastic A to Z of scottish inventions including the classics but also some of the less well-known ideas. If you're in Edinburgh, you should definitely pop in.

The website is here which will show you opening times.

FifeX put in the IT and AV things including software, slideshows and some interesting videos - one of which has a very old video of Cliff Richard doing some ceilidh!

On the right you can see Jane in the reading chair looking through some of the books they have on display.

Discovering Lost Lighthouses

We are very pleased to have heard from a good friend of ours who has just been visiting the Fraserburgh Lighthouse Museum. We were delighted to find out that our lighthouse exhibits, which were originally made for NMS in Edinburgh, are still going strong in Fraserburgh and she set up quite a nice demo of the Fresnel lens on our 'Bright Enough' exhibit to show us!