Reverse engineering the Roomba
Yes I know, its an old project covered a few times. Most notably, The Hook up did a fantastic use case of the Roomba with MQTT (below) while the Roomba…
2020 presents new challenges in #CSed
2020 is a year of challenges for New Zealand schools embracing the new 'Digital Technology curriculum integration' initiative from the government. The challenge being most schools are not prepared for…
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…
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…
Arduino Unit now complete! 10 plus hours of classwork on slideshows and provided code
It is finished. Well, almost I reckon. The Unit plan, Slideshows for an Arduino unit, 10 plus hours and included code all in one zipped file. The idea is that…
Lesson 1 – Intro to Arduino – Year 10 Programme
PS: Download link is now updated with the fixed PowerPoint! Thanks for letting me know. Trying to continue what my predecessor(John Barrow) started with Arduino! A complete junior programme that…
Testing the Edison v2.0, Lego Mindstorm EV3 and the mBot
Teaching students the basics of coding using modular components which are relatively easy to ‘put together’(in a lesson) as well as ‘put away’ (tidily in a box) is a daunting…