Friday, February 26, 2016

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.

Thursday, February 25, 2016

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 ....

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

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.




Monday, January 4, 2016

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 ....