What is inside a laptop?

The LPS Makers spend two meetings disassembling and opening up an old laptop to see what components it had inside. They researched the parts by pictures and model numbers to find its functionality.

Makers and Makey Makey

This meeting we discovered and played with Makey Makey. My makers were pretty quick to figure out how to connect the Makey Makey and got started. They experimented with various items in the media center including play dough, and pencils ..... Take a look ....

Origami LED

Here are my makers mixing origami with circuitry. Their task was to create some origami object and insert an LED into it such that the circuitry is hidden.

Unboxing LittleBits

We recently got the LittleBits base Kit. I gave the box to my makers to open up and explore. They took to the challenge to learn how to put together various circuits ....

LPS Makers and the #HourOfCode

In honor of Computer Science Education Week we participated in the #HourOfCode using our Android tablets and an app called Lightbot : Code Hour. While my makers were on the tablets I was on the Flash web version.

"The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics" - www.hourofcode.com

Fun with Ozobot

Ozobot provided lots of entertainment for our meeting. We went through lesson one from the Ozobot education page. We also played some printed games. My makers made some of their own tracks for Ozobot to test out. We still have to try out Ozobot with a tablet and then try to program Ozobot .....

The Design Challenge

This engineering design challenge was my inspiration for this meeting. I gave my makers pipe cleaners, plastic cups and 8oz weight of stones. Their challenge was to build a structure that can hold the cup with the stones in it.