Standard Exhibits
Please have a browse through our extensive catalogue of tried and tested standard exhibits.
As you will see from the photographs, each exhibit shown has its own design style and construction method as they were all from different venues. If a group are chosen, we will make sure they all follow the same design style and colour scheme required to suit your venue. This will be shown during the design development stage of the project. We will provide a concept drawing of each exhibit prior to production for you to sign off.
Once a group of interactives have been chosen, we will calculate a final quotation showing all elements.
The images below are a representation of the exhibits.
Air Cannon
Firing the air cannon towards a wall covered in rotating discs creates an amazing effect. The visual effect created shows how the air travels in a ring and in a straight line.
Air Cannon
Turbulent Orb
The turbulent orb is a large hemisphere full of flow-visualisation fluid. The fluid inside shows swirls and waves of internal fluid motion like that in our atmosphere. The exhibit shows the complexities of fluid motion that can be produced by very simple circumstances.
Turbulent Orb
Roll Uphill
Rolling uphill is impossible surely. This is not the case in this interactive the conical wheel actually rolls uphill. How does it do it? Experiment with different Shaped wheels to see which rolls up hill the best.
Roll Uphill
Graffiti Wall
Have you ever wanted to create your own masterpiece using spray paints? Well now you can with the new Aivaf graffiti wall. A digital interactive that uses infra-red LED’s to create some amazing effects. What makes this extra special is that there are no permanent markings and the wall can be wiped clear with a touch of a button.
Graffiti Wall
Thermal Imaging
Have you ever wondered what body heat looks like? Well stand in front of this special camera and look at yourself. Now try rubbing your hands together and see their colour change. Why does this happen? The friction of rubbing your hands together creates heat and makes them change colour on screen. Visitors can view themselves next their friends and family to see who is the warmest. Now try running on the spot.
Thermal Imaging
Giant Keyboard
Follow the illuminated guides or try playing by ear. Can you be the next Jean Michelle Jarre? This giant keyboard creates endless fun even for the most non-musical visitor.
Giant Keyboard
Skeleton Bicycle
The Skeleton Bike exhibit is a captivating blend of education and mechanical innovation. It features an amazing tandem bike, where visitors pedal alongside an identical skeletal bike enclosed within a mirrored cabinet. As visitors pedal, the lights within the cabinet illuminate, revealing the skeletal figure in motion.
Skeleton Bicycle
Operation Table Game
In this simple digital based interactive the visitor must work through the various stages of an operation from repairing a broken wrist through to removing an appendix. This is a non-graphical game based for the younger visitor.
Operation Table Game
Dancing Sand Dunes
Fans blowing over fine sand particles sculpts an everchanging landscape of dunes, cliffs and avalanches. Viewers can change the direction of the air and observe how the landscape is reshaped. This exhibit is based on the original art piece created by Ned Kahn in 1993
Dancing Sand Dunes
Slow Bubbles
See how bubbles rise in fluids of different viscosity. Pump the hands and see how the bubbles slowly rise up the tubes.
Slow Bubbles
Freezing Water
Watch how the water is frozen creating some amazing crystalline patterns and shapes.
Freezing Water
Ferro Fluid
See how the mesmerising ferro fluid reacts to the presence of magnets. Raising and lowering the two magnets next to the fluid creates some amazing effects. Endless fun can be created by experimenting with the two magnets. See how the fluid almost comes to life and moves hypnotically from one to the other creating some amazing shapes and patterns.
Ferro Fluid
Smoke Rings
An air vortex cannon is a toy that releases doughnut-shaped air vortices — similar to smoke rings but larger, stronger and invisible. The vortices can ruffle hair, disturb papers or blow out candles after travelling several metres.
Smoke Rings
Chaotic Pendulum
The chaotic pendulum exhibit demonstrates the complex dynamic behaviour of two of more pendulums are connected. Spin the central knob to see the one pendulum reacts with another to create a mesmerising display.
Chaotic Pendulum
Self-lifting Chair
Racing against each other two visitors must try and pull themselves up into the air while sitting in a chair. Who will find it easier the visitor with the fixed pulley system or the one with the block and tackle.
Self-lifting Chair
Speakers
How do speakers create sound? In this hands-on experiment, visitors can adjust the frequency dial and observe how both the sound and the speed of the speaker cone’s movement change. This effect is made visible by small balls bouncing up and down on the cone.
Speakers
Flying a Plane
Have you ever wondered what it is like to fly a plane. Using a model aeroplane the visitors can get an understanding of what the ailerons, elevators and rudder are used for in controlling the plane.
Flying a Plane
Earthquake Table
Using this earthquake shake table, visitors can test different structures to see how resilient they are to vibration.
Earthquake Table
Wind Turbine
Experiment with different blades to see which are more efficient at different wind speed.
Wind Turbine
Slap Pipes
The Slap Pipes are a captivating exhibit that combines music and physics. Consisting of a series of vertical pipes with different lengths, the Slap Pipes invite visitors to experiment with sound production by slapping the ends of the pipes with the mallets. As they interact with the pipes, visitors can explore concepts such as vibration, frequency and pitch.
Slap Pipes
Light Table
Use the prisms, mirrors and various lenses reflect, ‘bend’ and manipulate the light beams from the central column? Light travels in straight lines, by using refractive and reflective surfaces however you can you ‘bend’ the light. Try creating a rainbow using the prisms provided.
Light Table
Propellers
Does the shape of the propellor make much difference? Choose your propellor and race your opponent? Finish the race and then inspect each propellor. What is the difference?
Propellers
Smoke Tornado
Watch as the tornado is created in front of your eyes. Over 3 meters tall this impressive piece of equipment allows the visitors to interact with the tornado as it grows. Using a water-based mist the tornado is completely harmless and does not create a film on nearby exhibits unlike the original designs using smoke machines.
Smoke Tornado
Energy Gym
This is the next step up from the traditional pedal generator. This is a whole area dedicated to creating energy from exercise. Visitors can work in groups or individually to generate as much power as possible as well as the traditional bikes there are air walkers, cross trainers and steppers
Energy Gym
Little Things – Microscope Area
Enter the magical world of the microscopic. Using the digital microscope investigate magical crystals, intriguing insects and even just everyday items that we haven’t seen close up before.
Little Things – Microscope Area
See like an Insect
Have you ever wondered what the world looks like to an insect. With these interactives you can have a look around the gallery as if you were a house fly or a cockroach.
See like an Insect
Energy Wall
How much power does take to run your standard domestic appliances. Visitors can generate electrical power as a team or individually and experiment with different appliance to see how quickly their stored energy lasts.
Energy Wall
Echo Tube
The echo tube is a large hollow tube that when you shout down or make a noise it reflects it back and creates an echo. This simple piece of equipment demonstrates clearly that sound takes time to travel. By knowing the length of the tube and counting the time taken to hear the echo the speed of sound can be calculated.
Echo Tube
Drawing with Magnets
Designed for the younger visitor this exhibit allows visitors to create funny and interesting images using magnets and iron filings. The visitor is presented with several different illustrations, and they have to move the iron filings into place to finish them off. The illustrations include such things as a bald-headed man needing some hair.
Drawing with Magnets
Build an Arch
One of the original interactives which still amazes visitors today. Build a catenary arch and see how it is self-supportive. Catenary arches are very strong because they redirect the vertical force of gravity into compression forces that press along the curve, holding the arch’s building blocks in place.
Build an Arch
Tennis Ball Launcher
Using the force of air pressure fire the balls high up into the sky. Lifting the bowling ball up only a few centimetres will create enough pressure to fire the tennis ball meters into the air.
Tennis Ball Launcher
Gears Wall
Place the magnetic gears onto the wall to see if you can get a complete gear train to work. The wall has multiple fixed elements such as handles, bells, rotating drums etc. Starting at the rotating handle choose carefully to make sure there is enough space to fit all of your chosen gears to make the bell ring. Once complete try another task such as making the drum to spin.
Gears Wall
Illumination Wall
Create endless patterns and pictures with the illumination wall. Let your creative nature take control. Designed for visitors of all ages and sizes. Will you be the next Picasso?
Illumination Wall
Hand Battery
Placing your hands on two different metals creates electrical energy just like a battery. Experiment with different metals and different pressures of touch to see what creates the most energy.
Hand Battery
Steady Hands
How do you cope under pressure? Do you have a steady hand? There are three levels of complexity. Any shaking or sudden movement will set of the alarm bells. Take the challenge if you dare.
Steady Hands
Colour Mixings
In this exhibit, a red light, a blue light, and a green light are all shining on the floor. The floor looks white because these three coloured lights stimulate the three types of cones in your eyes. Now play about with the 3 primary colours and watch the effect. Create amazing shadows by blocking different combinations of light With these three lights you can make shadows of seven different colours—blue, red, green, black, cyan, magenta, and yellow.
Colour Mixings
Frozen In Time
Capture a moment in time using the phosphorescent wall. Drawing around the templates and shapes with the led pens create pictures and patterns and watch them fade away over time. Express your creative side but just for a minute.
Frozen In Time
Magnets
The exhibit invites visitors to explore the fascinating world of magnetism through hands-on activities. Using a variety of magnets, the exhibit demonstrates fundamental concepts and the forces that govern how magnets interact with different materials.
Magnets
Circuits
Using the representation of a battery, buzzer lights and switches experiment with leads to understand the elements needed to make a simple circuit and what the difference is between a series and parallel circuit.
Circuits
Robot Arm
Challenge yourself against the robot arm in the steady hand race. Are you as quick and steady as our robot. Then marvel as the robot shows you its real capability by undertaking a 3D puzzle at amazing speed.
Robot Arm
Power Wheel
Enter the giant hamster wheel and run as fast as you can to create as much energy as possible. This stand alone interactive can be coupled to amazing overhead lighting displays or any electrical device if you wish.
Power Wheel
Water Sea Saw
A two player activity where you have to move the water in the tube through the central turbine to create enough power to illuminate the huge visual display
Water Sea Saw
Sand Table – Projection
In this Augmented reality exhibit visitors can manipulate the sand to create amazing landscapes and watch them come to life with mountains forming and rivers flowing. Why not change the mode and create a dinosaur scene or even the odd game of 2. The unit comes with up to 36 different modes and endless hours of fun.
Sand Table – Projection
Scarf Shooter
Comprised of clear, flexible tubes, the scarf shooter allows children to direct the path of scarves or balls through the tubes, which eventually exit from a port at the top of the grid wall. Now try to catch them as they float down. In our version we have added a little twist. One of the exit ports will light up and you have to adjust the valve to make your scarf fire out of the correct one.
Scarf Shooter
Grain Pit
The myth, the legend, the original “Grain Pit Exhibition!” This ultimate expression of mechanical mayhem has been delighting audiences of all ages since 1984. This exhibit provides a complete solution for developing large groups of children (with or without support) in a compact museum space. Experience the captivating array of mechanisms that transport, propel, and circulate brightly coloured plastic grain in a never-ending loop of energy and excitement.
Watch in awe as the grain falls, spins, spills, and drops through various stages of the system. From the dizzying heights of the elevator to the thrilling spiral of the augers, there’s something to amaze and entertain everyone. With eight simultaneous points of interaction, the “Grain Pit Exhibition” promises endless fascination and fun for all ages. Plus, it is low maintenance, requires no additional graphics or explanations, and has proven educational benefits!
Grain Pit
Bernoulli Blower
Marvel at one of the original hands on interactives. This exhibit uses Bernoulli’s principal to make a beach ball hover in the air above a fast flowing airstream. We have produced many different examples of this exhibit including ones with challenges such as hoopes you have to guide the ball through.
Bernoulli Blower
Infinity Mirror
The infinity mirror is a configuration of two or more parallel or angled mirrors, which are arranged to create a series of smaller and smaller reflections appearing to disappear of into infinity.
Infinity Mirror
Hot Air Balloon
What makes a hot air balloon fly high up in the sky? Hot air balloons are based on a very basic scientific principle: warmer air rises in cooler air. Heat up the air in the balloon and watch it float to the ceiling. Observe the two temperature readings on the exhibit. Compare the internal temperature of the balloon to the gallery temperature. For the larger centres we offer a two-balloon exhibit meaning there is less time to wait for the balloon to cool down and drop back to earth ready for the next visitor.
Hot Air Balloon
Whirligig
An enormous version of the traditional kid’s toy. Wind the handle and increase the speed of the propellor, when you think it is ready press the release button and watch it soar into the air. Did you wind it up enough? Not a problem if you didn’t. Simply have another go.
Whirligig
Wave Tank
The exhibit offers a captivating look at the behavior of waves through the use of a viscous material, allowing visitors to observe wave dynamics in a slow, visual, and tangible way. By manipulating a thick, gel-like substance, participants can create ripples and see how waves travel, interact, and dissipate in a medium that resists movement. The exhibit illustrates key wave properties, such as frequency, amplitude, and wavelength, in a way that’s easy to understand and visually striking.
Wave Tank
Rotary Motion Unit
Fold and fly. Follow the basic instruction or make something completely new and see whether it will fly high up into the sky.
Rotary Motion Unit
How high can I jump?
Part of a group of exhibits based around testing your own physical attributes. This exhibit tests to see how high people can jump. Even though you maybe small you may be able to jump further off the ground than a taller person. Touch the highest button you can standing on the floor. Now jump up and touch the highest you can. Now look at what the difference is.
How high can I jump?
Big Steps
Part of a group of exhibits based around testing your own physical attributes. This exhibit tests to see how far you can step. Stand on the line a walk forward with one step. The exhibit measures the exact distance you have stepped.
Big Steps
How Tall are You?
Part of a group of exhibits based around testing your own physical attributes. This exhibit looks at how tall a visitor is. Stand under the ultrasonic sensor and see how tall you actually are.
How Tall are You?
How far can I reach?
Part of a group of exhibits based around testing your own physical attributes. Stretch out as far as you can and see how far you can reach.
How far can I reach?
Reaction Test
How fast are your reactions are they quicker than a cat? Based around our standard batak interactive the visitors must press the illuminated buttons before the cat does. The games has two separate modes for visitors of different ages, restricting the height and speed for the younger clientele.
Reaction Test
Wind Table
Which is the most efficient wind pump? Can you make the wind turbine spin using your wind pump? Once enough power is generated the central sculpture will illuminate and start to spin. Work individually or collectively to make this happen.
Wind Table
Dancing Iron Filings
A mesmorising display created using electromagnets and iron filings. Watch how the exhibit literally dances to the music as the electromagnets pulse to the beat and the filings move in unison.
Dancing Iron Filings
Keep the Beat
What’s your musical talents like? Can you keep the beat? Challenge a friend or complete stranger to see who has the best rhythm. Follow the steps on the screen and strike the drum pads in time to gather as many points as possible.
Keep the Beat
Kundt Tube
Kundt’s tube is an experimental acoustical apparatus invented in 1866 by German physicist August Kundt for the measurement of the speed of sound. This is a liquid based version. Adjusting the frequency of the oscilloscope creates peaks in the fluid producing amazing effects.
Kundt Tube
Sinking Bubbles
Have you ever wondered how throughout history ships have simply vanished. In this interactive one possibility is demonstrated. Floating on the surface of the water in a tank is a small model boat. Moving the handle up and down creates bubbles in base of the tube. As more and more bubbles are created the waters surface becomes unstable eventually causing the boat to sink.
Sinking Bubbles
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