Recycling Corflute in the classroom
I recently managed to get a bunch of large used Corflute sheets and I have been trying to find some purpose for them. Corflute is a really strong material used…
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…
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…
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…