Hello
Tomorrow I'm going to show my coding class a couple of arduino project to get them to see different things you can use coding to. They are between the age of 10 and 14 so I recon watching leds aren't the most exiting thing. Does anyone have suggestion to simple projects that are fun to watch (as they won't be building or making anything). It would be great if there are not THAT many components so that setting up a new sketch won't be that timeconsuming. I have this kit and limited with experience
Hi,
Any project in your kit that makes movement is probably better than just LEDs.
You have stepper, servo and a DC motor to make interesting demos.
Does the kit come with any project booklet?
Tom.. 
What is you level of electronics and arduino programming?
There are many soap bubble blowing robot projects on the net. One of them might get their interest.
if you already have the kit, why not:
pick up a couple more arduino clones,
get a project book, or search the net, or let them search for projects,
break the class up into teams,
and let them play with programming and hardware setup and maybe learn something,, instead of sleeping through some pile of demos which they have no connection with (pardon the grammar, I'm a Texan).
123Splat:
if you already have the kit, why not:
pick up a couple more arduino clones,
get a project book, or search the net, or let them search for projects,
break the class up into teams,
and let them play with programming and hardware setup and maybe learn something,, instead of sleeping through some pile of demos which they have no connection with (pardon the grammar, I'm a Texan).
Could, and should, deffinitly have done that. However, it's a summercourse and tomorrow is the last day
I do magic tricks for my students, sometimes framed as a challenge where there's a trick to doing it.
With that kit, idk, make a challenge out of picking up an object in front of the ultrasonic distance sensor without setting off the alarm.
Joke with them that you have to do a funny dance to distract the computer/robot, all the while you control the buzzer with the IR remote. They start enjoying themselves when they compete, divide and conquer and all that.
any POV spinning disk that spells out things is koool.
travis_farmer:
or POV, with a laser~Travis
Nice device, but like, the worst demo-vid I've ever seen! What's with the 5 minutes of just sitting there watching it while it's off before anything happens?
since the OP seemed to only have a few hours for this, today being show-and-tell....
things that startle or jump are neat.
not sure how many kids of that age have cell phones or have them in class....
but one could put on a wifi thingamabob and have the kids play with that.
I think doing an etch-a-sketch over the net would be kool, but a long project.
Hi,
I'd say the OPs tomorrow has arrived...
Tom..
TomGeorge:
Hi,
I'd say the OPs tomorrow has arrived...Tom..
Right? Just make a bicarb volcano and be done with it ...
(Hey, it's what I do in chemistry!)
Hi,
I'd prefer to make a demo power supply, 15Vac, rectifier ,then a 1000uF 16V cap , its more than 15V isn't it.
And just slowly walk away.
Afterwards see if any bright spark can tell me why? Cos 16V is bigger than 15V, why? ? ?
Tom... :o