Post on 18-Jul-2015
Sensing Our World
Technology Volunteers
Leaders 14-15
Andrew Sula, Matthew Healey, Arteesha Bosamia,
Stephen Pithouse, Martin Luk, Robert Sandford, Margaret Low
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Technology Volunteers
Outreach workshops designed to encourage youngpeople have a deeper understanding of:
• modern hi-tech products• relationship between hardware and software• sensing the world around us
Encourage Creators rather than Consumers
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Sessions: Programming by Stealth
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Sessions: Sensing Our World
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Sessions: Arduinos & breadboards
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Who? Led by students at Warwick
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Who? Students work collaboratively
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Why? To encourage a deeperunderstanding of howthings work.
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Why? Understand links
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Why? because sensors are fun!
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Why? : students gain skills and share skills
What? Bottle top drum kit
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What? Tilt-o-meter
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What? Sweetie jar etch-a-sketch
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What? Touchpad made from a CD case
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What? Exploring interfaces
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Box IT! (bop it!) Dancemat
Where?: in the classroom
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Where? Schools, local communities & libraries
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Where? BBC Coventry & Warwickshire Open Centre
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Where? Imagineering Fairs & Science events
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(Its not just children that are having fun)
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Scratch Sensor Board (Picoboard)
Light
Button
Slider
Sound
Additional Sensors
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Scratch sprites can respond to
• Sound, change how the sprite lookswhen there is a loud sound.
• Light, hide when its dark (or light)
• Others, use the slider and button tocontrol a character in a video game.
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Successful Sensing in Scratch
• Sensors return value from 0 … 100
• Keep reading values from sensor (loop)
• Calibration of sensors
• Threshold values
To help - Scratch has the
Scratchboard Watcher
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EngineeringFailure
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To ensure there is no failure here
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How many minutes will the sandcastle survive?
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Creating Crash Structures
Sensing Our World
worksheets to build sensors
and sample applications
Buttons &Potentiometers
Tilt SensorBottle Top
DrumsVariable Value
Sensor
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SimpleTheremin
Eye Optics Event CounterColour Sensor
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Dance MatBox It 2.0Joystick Button Box
Local network and wider contacts
ProfessionalBodies
ProfessionalBodies
BCS(Coventry)
BCS(Coventry)
IET (WestMidlands)IET (WestMidlands)
LocalEducation
Authorities
LocalEducation
Authorities
Coventry ICTAdvisors
Coventry ICTAdvisors
WarwickshireICT
DevelopmentService
WarwickshireICT
DevelopmentService
LocalSecondary
Schools
LocalSecondary
Schools
CoventryCoventry
WarwickshireWarwickshire
SolihullSolihull
SouthLeicestershire
SouthLeicestershire
LocalUniversities
LocalUniversities
CoventryUniversityCoventry
University
University ofWarwick
University ofWarwick
OthersOthers
WarwickCentre for
ProfessionalStudies
WarwickCentre for
ProfessionalStudies
Local STEMAmbassadorco-ordinator
Local STEMAmbassadorco-ordinator
Computing AtSchool (CAS)Computing AtSchool (CAS)
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Thank you for listening!
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