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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