PASSING ON THE KNOWLEDGE
In a garage in Opunake, a small coastal Taranaki town, is the ‘University of Shed’, where young people can learn about electronics in a practical way.
The shed is the brainchild of Andrew Hornblow, and his ‘university’ is where schoolkids pick up some new skills by creating devices that they use for studies as diverse as the remote monitoring of little blue penguins in their nesting boxes through to making robots and creating inventions for competitions.
As a school science technician, Andrew has spent nearly 20
