[TriEmbed] Middle school presentation

[Robert Mackie]

Unless I'm mistaken, this "guy" is a wake robotics FLL coach. He ran a
workshop like this for our members a while back.

Let me know if you'd like me to see if I can put you in touch with him.
Maybe he is on the list - I'm not sure.  I am sure he's built a really nice
framework for introducing programming the arduino.

Rob.

On Jan 24, 2015 5:00 PM, "Shane Trent" <shanedtrent at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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
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> Shane
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> On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Pete Soper <pete at soper.us> wrote:
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>> 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"
(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 (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" 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:
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>>> 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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