Making an Arduino Reaction game using a Raspberry Pi

mozfest-bot commented 8 years ago

[ ID ] 86d5eda0-1461-42bf-990c-9b7d881d884a

[ Submitter's Name ] Tina Götschi [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Ada, the National College for Digital Skills [ Submitter's Twitter ] @t0mf00lery

[ Space ] youth [ Secondary Space ] badges

[ Format ] hands-on

Description

This session is a workshop that teaches participants to code a simple reaction game on an Arduino. It also teaches the fundamentals of wiring up a breadboard with an LED and a push button.

If possible and time permits, we would like to offer a digital badge for this session. We might need some help with this.

Agenda

We will bring Raspberry Pis loaded with Arduino software as well as Arduino kits with all the necessary hardware for the game. We'll take participants through the steps of setting up the hardware and coding it. Students from the College will assist along with written and online documentation.

Participants

We will be able to accommodate up to 30 participants (in groups of 2 - we will have 15 Pis and kits, but will need screens). We will have up to 30 students to allow for a one-to-one workshops with participants. It would be great to have parent-child combos participating.

Outcome

The outcomes for our (Ada College) students after the festival will be: -attending MozFest and becomming lifelong Mozfesters -running a session and teaching a variety of participants

extending their learning of digital and Wed The outcomes for participants
having a first experience of Arduino programming
being exposed to the resources and ideas that are out there
learning to code in C
using a Raspberry Pi
learning with parent/child

How to take the activities forward for our students -They propose a session for MozFest 2017 -They run an after school club/code club for local schools in the future

How to take the activities forward for participants

provide them with an Arduino Next Steps guide
introduce them to the College and further digital and coding sessions we are involved in or planning

tinagoetschi commented 8 years ago

Here is an initial write-up of this project: https://github.com/MsGotschi/arduinoReactionGame

EPIKhub commented 8 years ago

@MsGotschi sounds really interesting, we have a lot of really cool Pi stuff, think this would tie in well. Any youths at the National College for Digital Skills we could invite to MozFest to come take part maybe :)?

EPIKhub commented 8 years ago

@mattdigitalme another one for badging in the youth Zone :)

tinagoetschi commented 8 years ago

@EPIKhub this is actually more Arduino than RPi... just the computer used is a RPi We will be encouraging ALL our students to attend MozFest @mattdigitalme trying to create a badge right now!

EPIKhub commented 8 years ago

@MsGotschi Yes "fit in" as part of the diverseness of tech in existence; using the right tool for the job style :) We also have Micro bit coming too as well as the HTC Vive so should be a fab offering of tech to play with from Code to Art :D

EPIKhub commented 8 years ago

@MsGotschi Ill email you separately for your plans with getting the college youth to come

gbaman commented 8 years ago

@MsGotschi What ages would you be expecting for this workshop? And what would be your ideal session length?

Craig88 commented 8 years ago

@MsGotschi Looks good. You could use a simple platform like https://www.badgecraft.eu to create a badge that could be issued. Using this platform you can print a list of codes that you give out to participants on the day - then they can claim the badge at a later date.

tinagoetschi commented 8 years ago

@Craig88 thanks - I've started using the OBA - maybe we can compare notes on different platforms sometime?

tinagoetschi commented 8 years ago

@gbaman I don't really see a age limit - if participants are very young they are often there with a parent, but our students will also be there to help. I'm hoping that many of them will so we could actually have a helper for every participant. We've also got Helen from www.doitkits.com to help.

mattdigitalme commented 8 years ago

@MsGotschi @EPIKhub Yup - Spoke to Tina about this today actually - definitely one to badge for the Festival! Ill set up a call between the 3 of us. YouthZone space have room to host this?

mattdigitalme commented 8 years ago

@MsGotschi @EPIKhub I'm removing the Badges label as this is happening in Youth - but we're going to be setting up Arduino badges (lots of other sessions) so I think these would work for this - sound good?

tinagoetschi commented 8 years ago

@mattdigitalme no problems! As long as it is badged :)

EPIKhub commented 8 years ago

Session accepted in the Youth Zone

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