Week Three
If you are done planning, today is the day you start building. Building your mini-golf hole is a process: imagine, plan, make, evaluate, and improve your project. Today you start making!
Build a basic engineering mechanism that will be used later in their projects.
Cam and follower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEOQr91q4wA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVQvk5aYlGg
Crank and Slider
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yl4nfJQ8S8I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zufhEQEIJb0
Pushrod
https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/make-crumble-robot-head/0
Jump to section 4 on the left menu “The pushrod mechanism”
29 Automata projects
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OJ1Yc2SwAs
Materials needed for class
- Cardboard Knives
- Hot Glue Guns
- Hot Glue
- Cardboard
Week Two
Today we are designing, planning and getting started. Building your mini-golf hole is a process: imagine, plan, make, evaluate, and improve your project. We’ll tackle the first two of these today, imagine and plan.
4:00 pm Divide into teams and brainstorm
Imagine your project
A good place to start is picking a theme and doing some rough sketches.
Check the internet for inspiration
4:30 pm Plan your project
Start by laying out and sketching the design. Use the layout page to draw your overall shape and features. Make a list of materials. Divide up jobs.
Here is a great breakdown of the planning stage
5:00 pm Grab some cardboard and build a mini-mockup of your plan.
5:30 pm Student Entrance Survey
Materials needed for class
- Chromebook or Laptop
Links for today
Week One
Today is centered around getting materials out and getting acquainted with everything. We’ll start with coding. Don’t worry if we have problems with the computers that’s why we are doing this early in the session. We need to know what is working and what is not.
1. Flashing heart tutorial
Google: micro:bit makecode or go to makecode.microbit.org
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- Under “Tutorials”, select Flashing Heart. It is the first tutorial
- Select “Blocks” as the programming language.
- Follow the instructions at the top of the page
2. Dice Tutorial
Google: micro:bit makecode or go to makecode.microbit.org
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- Select the Dice Tutorial. It’s a few tutorials to the right of the flashing heart tutorial
- Select “Blocks” as the programming language.
- Follow the instructions at the top of the page
3. Turn a servo/motor
Resources
Tutorials
Motors and Servos
Scroll down the page to the “Servo” section.
4. Light up LED lights
Resources
Tutorials
Neopixels
Materials needed for class
- Chromebook or Laptop
- Micro:Bit
- Crickit for Micro:Bit
- LEDs, Servo, IR sensor
Links for today
- MakeCode for Micro:bit
- Student Entrance Survey
- Firmware for Micro:bit