Make an economical Drawbot / WiggleBot
I had a request from a Year 6 Classroom Teacher who wanted some EdTech activities incorporating art as a subject area. They have been focusing on origins and history of…
RC Car hack using the Microbit and Motor Driver Shield
In one of my previous posts, I showed my toy truck modified with an Arduino Uno and a motor driver. It's a great way to make use of what is…
MakerFaire Wellington and why we need more MakerFaire’s
Sunday 4 November 2018 was officially the first MakerFaire in Wellington. Since I have a subscription with the Make Magazine for a few years now, I have always been keen…
Beach Cleaning Robot using the ESP32
How do you build a working robot in a day as a holiday programme? Especially when you have a wide range of students, some of them who have never done…
#ACCE2018 My thoughts
Hello Sydney. Good to be back, this time for a digital technology teachers conference called ACCE2018. I arrived in time for the registration on Tuesday night, after Google maps decided…
My South Island Outreach!
Nelson Inspire - an annual 2 day maker workshop in South Island NZ. This annual event is hosted by Ministry of Inspiration, an educational company based in the south island…
Soldering skills: a gateway to science and electronics
On 6 - 7 August, 84 Year 7 and Year 9 students at Chanel College Masterton, NZ were busy soldering away a circuit board custom made by one of our…
Micro:bit and Kitronik Buggy kit – User review
At $22 for a Micro:bit which has a Bluetooth, Accelerometer and capacitive touch sensors, I wouldn't, for a moment, doubt its usefulness in a class as a learning resource. The…
3D Scanning for Under $50
After reading a number of articles(and trying it out myself), I am convinced that the old Xbox 360 Kinect sensor can easily be used as a 3D scanner in the…
Lesson 2 – Servos and Lesson 1 Intro to Arduino -Fixed
PS: Lesson 1 attachment is now fixed. It was messed up as I made half the file in PowerPoint and then transferred it to LibreOffice. Attached with the article (Lesson…
LED fun
Outeach Coordinator role begins!
And so its official! The school holidays, which is a period of rest for most teachers (well, atleast some of it) was my official start to my new role at…
Book review of Invent to learn – Making, Tinkering and Engineering in the classroom by Sylvia Libow Martinez and Gary Stager
Seven years ago, I was teaching Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint to my Year 11 Digital Technology students. It was an important skill (I believed) which could be used across…