star wars Which Star Wars character are you? Are you a Jedi or a Sith? A smuggler, bounty hunter, princess, droid, wookie, or stormtrooper? With a little Scratch coding we will soon find out!
Raspberry Pi Timey Wimey Make Believe in Leeds Leeds City Museum Today I had a great day hacking a time machine to life with the children of Leeds. We used a Raspberry Pi, housed inside one of the pi-top CEED devices, kindly donated to me by pi-top as part of the pi-top CHAMPIONS scheme. My workshop was part
friday fun Using Hot Wires / Snap Circuits with Raspberry Pi It's Friday!! Time for some fun! Hot Wires / Snap Circuits are simple circuit building blocks that are used to teach electronics to small children. They use press studs, similar to those used on coats, to connect the components, which are encased in a plastic shell meaning that small
scratch Wizarding Maths Quiz I really do love Scratch... It's a nice gentle introduction to coding that does not scare children out of Computing. Each of the blocks can be built into a sequence that can make a game, an animation of be used as an instrument. I teach a lot of
school Coding Your School Play - In Scratch 2 and Sonic Pi Scratch is a great introduction to computing. It uses a simple interface based on attaching blocks together to form a sequence. Scratch can be used on all manner of projects, from simple games all the way to interfacing with hardware components such as Raspberry Pi and Arduino One project that
