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 […]
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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, […]
Continue readingBeach 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 […]
Continue readingMy 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 […]
Continue readingSoldering 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 […]
Continue readingArduino 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 […]
Continue readingLesson 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! […]
Continue readingTesting 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 […]
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