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Coding activities for kids, coding for beginners, robotics, electronics.

Fun projects, tutorials and information to help kids and adults alike explore the world of coding.

05/06/2022

Just completed project 1 of the Monk Makes Electronics Kit 2. Simple lighthouse using a Micro:Bit, a relay, a battery, a bulb and some wires with crocodile clips. I’m liking the kit so far, will be using it at Code club from next week so will post a review in a few weeks. My son built the Lego Lighthouse including maintenance man 😁

01/06/2022

Will be playing with this over the weekend, managed to get hold of 10 for the Code Club that I help out with 😁

04/12/2021

Create a simple animation in Scratch by rotating a sprite to make a stick mans arm wave.

First draw your character but without the arm that you want to wave. Now create a new sprite and draw the arm. The trick here is to make sure that the arm where it joins the characters body should be exactly in the middle, when you draw in Scratch there is a handy center point marked on the drawing space, so if you start from here and draw away from it until you get to where you draw a hand. Now in the code for the arm sprite use the turn block and repeat several times one way then the same the other way the same amount of times. For this animation I have set turn to 5 degrees and repeated 17 times to give a nice smooth movement, put these into a forever loop and he'll just wave until you hit stop. On the stage you can now move the arm so it's attched to the body in the right place and it's as easy as that. Have fun!

19/11/2021

Wow, found this today, NEW Kitronik Autonomous Robotics Platform for Pico

Want an introduction to autonomous robotics then look no further. This has just been released by Kitronics. It's simple to put together, requires no soldering and includes a line following sensor and an ultrasonic sensor, LEDs, buzzer. Once built simply push a Raspberry Pi Pico into the onboard connector, add 4 AA batteries and your buggy is ready to code and go.

The included booklet includes instructions on how to write code for all the features included.

The buggy is £40.80 in the UK and $54.77 in the US. Available direct form kitronik.co.uk and if you scroll to the bottom of the website there is a link to distributors so you can find somewhere to buy it locally if need be.

Right, where's my credit card :-) Happy coding!

23/10/2021

Luckily managed to get a box of 10 Micro:Bit v2s before they were all sold out again. Excited now to use these in Code Club after half term

05/03/2021

Count multiple claps using a Micro:Bit and Makecode.
From this you could have a project where you say clap once to do one thing, twice to do something else and three times to do something completely different. This was all don in MakeCode, I'll write a small tutorial for it, it uses some of the more advanced blocks but it is quite easy really.

25/02/2021

My parcel was these fabulous LEDs. Soldered some wires on, connected them to a Micro:Bit v2, and then coded on Scratch by my son. Really pleased with them. The first item for project sons bedroom 😁

24/02/2021

Ooooh, parcel arrived today, have to wait until after work to open it though 😞 Will let you know what it is later 😉

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