[TriEmbed] Middle school presentation

[Shane Trent]

Slightly different approach but I was impressed when I read about this
effort (Raleigh guy too, might be on the list) to show kids how to blink an
LED on a tiny cheap board. I suspect you could raise enough donations to
build enough for a classroom.

https://learn.sparkfun.com/blog/1193

Shane

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Pete Soper <pete at soper.us> wrote:

>  I've done a few things in area elementary schools and school carnivals
> and a Durham library but mostly helping kids play with "Squishy Circuits
> <http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/apthomas/SquishyCircuits/>" (and "Banana
> Piano", but IMO that's not at all relevant to this topic).
>
> But my cohorts showed the kids how to play with Scratch
> <http://scratch.mit.edu/> (which comes preinstalled as part of Raspbian
> Linux for RPI these days). If I were going to do something like you're
> talking about, and could put a little time into it I'd jumper a Raspberry
> Pi to a solderless breadboard with a few LEDs and piezo beeper, et al on it
> and use Scratch, show the kids how to use it, then stand back and watch. If
> you google "raspberry pi scratch gpio projects
> <https://www.google.com/search?q=raspberry+pi+scratch+gpio+projects&oq=raspberry+pi+scratch+gpio+projects&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64.13625j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#q=raspberry+pi+scratch+gpio+projects>"
> there's a lot of stuff available to help shorten the learning curve.
>
> I'm semi-confident somebody on this list would be glad to loan you an RPI
> for a reasonably limited time to facilitate this. I've got extra
> breadboards, LEDs, beepers, and six other things that could be used for
> this that you're welcome to borrow. (My RPIs are either tied up or the old,
> 1/4gb RAM flavor)
>
> -Pete
>
>
> On 01/24/2015 03:19 PM, jonathan hunsberger wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I'm pretty much an embedded n00b, lurking on the list to learn some things
> (pretty successful in that so far!)  I work in IT, doing systems
> engineering / infrastructure architecture, but when my daughter's Computer
> Skills (mostly typing, plus a little bit of other stuff, including "hour of
> code") teacher found out I was a "computer person", she wanted me to come
> talk to the class about writing code.  I am not a software developer, but
> like most people I do write a lot of scripts, etc. to make my job easier.
> And at home my latest free time sink has been playing with
> microcontrollers, etc.  So.. I had two ideas:
> 1. Talk about ways that some level of coding skills can be useful even
> when you aren't a software developer for a living.
> 2. Talk about how you can use code to do things "in the real world" with
> all of the easily-accessible microcontrollers that are on the market these
> days.
>
>  Kind of leaning toward the second one since it seems more like playing
> than working.  For kids who have just come out of "hour of code" and maybe
> a few hours of codecademy, I was thinking it might be cool just to bring in
> an Arduino and some common peripherals (sensors, LEDs, etc.) and show how
> easy it is to quickly get something working using SparkFun/AdaFruit
> tutorials and running/modifying example sketches that come with the Arduino
> IDE.  Generally show them how accessible it can be and give them the basic
> info about getting started with it if it is interesting to them.
>
>  Have any of you done anything like that?  Does anyone have advice on
> specific things to demonstrate, ways to organize the presentation, etc.?
> This would be for middle school students.  6th grade for sure, not sure
> about 7th and 8th.
>
>  Thanks!
>
>
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