3D Scan and Print

3D Scan and Print a Toy Duck Event Maker project advice + tinkering + 3D Object Scanning @ dlr LexIcon Hosted by Jake Byrne Activity We brought along a toy duck and Dobby per the invite Jake setup…

STEM Workshop With My Kids School - Part 4 - Tweets

The tweets associated with the STEM workshop... See the full series of blogs on the STEM workshop: STEM Workshop With My Kids School - Part 1 - Before the STEM…

STEM Workshop With My Kids School - Part 3 - Where To From Here

Coming to the end of the STEM workshop series, it's time to think about next steps... See the full series of blogs on the STEM workshop: STEM Workshop With My…

STEM Workshop With My Kids School - Part 2 - The STEM Workshop

Defining the STEM workshop A STEM workshop was offered by the school principal to the teachers from 3rd to 6th class. All 7 teachers subscribed. 6 workshops ran from March 1 to April 11 - with the…

STEM Workshop With My Kids School - Part 1 - Before the STEM Workshop

This is a gathering of my thoughts and experiences as a STEM parent (working in a profession that relates to Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) who led a series of STEM classes with my kids…

Makeblock Airblock

Makeblock Airblock Transformable Drone/Hovercraft Robot for Kids. Multi-form Programmable toy for kids easily transform to Vehicle and More, No Experience needed, Easily Assembled and Safe Structure

Qdee MicroBit Robot

Qdee is a robot based on Micro:bit. It can be programmed via Micro:bit block language, or controlled via an app. Many different robot configurations are supported. The documentation, online tutorials…

Makeblock Neuron All In One Kit

The Makeblock Neuron system offers over 30 electronic blocks, including a voice sensor, light sensor and infrared sensor. It makes it very easy for kids to create functional circuits easily e.g. an…

Image Face Recognition

Using Amazon AWS Rekognition to analyse some images of Dwayne Johnson See https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/ Using Amazon AWS Rekognition, we can upload images and do analysis: Object and scene…

Lego Coral Car and Plane

Miscellaneous Lego builds. Car. Plane. Coral Reef.

Toilet Roll Owls

Making owls from Toilet Roll inserts

Ozobots

Code with colors (markers or stickers) or with a block language (that's like Scratch) https://ozobot.com/ Ozobot Oracle Guide Ozobot

Electronics for Kids

Electronics for Kids Play with Simple Circuits and Experiment with Electricity

Adventures in Raspberry Pi

Adventures in Raspberry Pi

Make Electricity

Make Electricity for Young Makers Fun and easy Do-It-Yourself Projects

Make Electronics

Make Electronics Learning Through Discovery

Make It Glow LED Projects for the Whole Family

Make It Glow LED Projects for the Whole Family

Brixo Electronic Lego Bricks

Brixo

Raspberry Pi Projects for Kids

Raspberry Pi Projects for Kids - Second Edition

Tinkering Kids Learn by Making Stuff

Tinkering: Kids Learn by Making Stuff Make 2nd Edition

Introducing OpenSTEMKids website

Welcome OpenSTEMKids facilitates and promotes STEM for children: Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (and Art and Robotics too) On this site On this site you'll find Blog : Various writings and…

Raspberry Pi Car Kit

SunFounder Raspberry Pi Smart Robot Car Kit - PiCar-S Block Based Graphical Visual Programming Language Line Following Ultrasonic Sensor Light Following Module Electronic Toy with Detail Manual…

Raspberry Pi Sense Hat

Raspberry Pi Sense HAT with Orientation, Pressure, Humidity and Temperature Sensors Gyroscope - angular rate sensor: ±245/500/2000dps Magnetometer - Magnetic Sensor: ± 4/8/12/16 gauss Barometer: 26…

Setup a Github account

Setup a Github account We want to save the project files that we create in one place including source code pictures notes keep a history of our edits share our content So we setup a free Github…

Easter Eggs

Decorating some real eggs for Easter

Lego Base Plates

Create a large Lego plate by connecting several Lego plates together

Knex Catapult

Using a rubber-band and K'nex to build a catapult to fire K'nex missiles. We usually start building and see what comes out. Normally it's a vehicle, but today it's a catapult. Knex Catapult Knex Car…

Raspberry Pi Alexa

Amazon has an Alexa client SDK that can be built and installed on a Raspberry Pi. This offers many Alexa features Games Radio News Reading books Questions Easter Eggs Additional features may require…

Santa is coming to town

A selection of Santa-themed Art and Crafts

Brixo Car

Sound starts and stops the motor. Lights come on in the dark, and turn off when bright. Part 1 Click your fingers to start or stop the Brixo Car motor This uses the Brixo sound sensor battery motor…

Car Lights Scratch

Part 1 Simulating Using Scratch Demo Car Lights In this session, we'll use Scratch to simulate car lights and horn Horn sounds when button pressed Lights indicate movement: left, right, stopping. This…

Raspberry Pi Car

Building and Coding a robot car to avoid obstacles Demo Ultrasonic Collision Avoidance Collision Avoidance with Ultrasonic Sensors Demo Demo Line Follower Materials Required SunFounder-PiCar-S Kit…

Harry Potter Themed Angry Birds

Coding an Angry Birds type game but using Harry Potter as the Angry Bird, and Dragons as the Pigs. Demo

Star Wars Spaceship

Materials Required Spray bottle 2 x Plastic clothes pegs Bottle cork Paint Teaches Arts and Crafts building a spaceship Using a junior hacksaw, and a glue gun, and spray paint Build…

Raspberry Pi in the real world

Use a Raspberry Pi to turn LED on and off every second Demo Raspberry Pi With Electronics Materials Required Raspberry Pi and MicroSD card Electronics LED Switch Breadboard Wires RaspberryPi header…

Autumn Leaves Laminate

Laminate Desk or Picture Decoration Collect Autumn leaves of different shapes and colours then leave to dry Place leaves in an A4 laminating pouch Close pouch then feed through a laminator as normal…

Lego Circuits

Lego Circuits Demo Lego Circuit With Sensors And Light In this session, we built a circuit with a light and 3 sensors Proximity Sound Light Sensor Trigger Proximity When magnet is close, the switch…

Setup a worktop

Setup a worktop We want to write notes on the workspace record our work - video and sound protect the surface underneath have good light Our worktop a whiteboard as the worktop (e.g. EUR 20 in Lidl…

Build A Crib

Build a crib from a cardboard box, tree bark and branches, and other materials.

Dolls House

From hammer and nails and saws, to painting and decorating, to furnishing a doll's house.

Events Calendar

Insert event calendar here Calendar