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Our third Arduino 101 class at Tam Makers went really well. I taught this evening course with co-instructor Donald Day on Thursdays, from June 16 to 30, 2016, at the woodshop in Tam High School in Mill Valley.
We worked with an enthusiastic group of seven students, including adults with diverse backgrounds, as well as a couple high school students. Our partner Geo Monley worked both as a mentor and as a student during the hands-on sessions.
We started the class at 6pm, by giving students an overview of how circuits work. We then learned how to use a multimeter, how to solder electronics, and how to control rainbow-colored NeoPixel lights.
Students seemed to really enjoy this class and told us they learned a lot from it. Several expressed an interest in taking intermediate and advanced classes in the future. This is one of our first maker courses at Tam Makers, and we’re really happy that it is going so well; we look forward to teaching more classes in the fall.
View more photos of this Arduino course:
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Learn more about this Arduino 101 class:
www.tammakers.org/arduino-101/
Read our Arduino 101 Guide:
bit.ly/arduino-101-guide-june-2016
Check out our course slides:
bit.ly/arduino-101-slides-june-2016
Learn more about Tam Makers:
Teresa Puente (green top, background center), a faculty member at Columbia College and editorial board member at Chicago Sun Times, oversees the making of iMovie by Student Campus participants from right to left: Brittany Marshal, a broadcast major at Kent State University from Silver Spring, Maryland; Jason Gonzales, a senior majoring in news editorial and ethnic studies at the University of Colorado in Greeley; seated foreground, Adele Hampton, a print journalism major at University of Maryland from Alexandria, Virginia; Brenna Kajikawa, a freshman at St. Louis University Madrid campus from Seatle, Washington; and Jonathan Choe, a Student Campus mentor and general assignment reporter for CLTV Chicago Tribune. Students used computer classrooms at Columbia College for the UNITY 2008 project.
We all had a great time in our first Arduino 101 class at Tam Makers, our new makerspace in Mill Valley. I taught this course with co-instructor Donald Day at the wood shop at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley on June 16, 2016.
A diverse group of ten students joined the class, including artists, technologists and people interested in learning new skills, as well as high school and middle school students and their parents. My partner Geo Monley and our friend Howard Rheingold also helped mentor the students during the hands-on sessions.
We started the class at 6pm, with an introduction to the popular Arduino processor, which is used by millions of hobbyists and makers around the world. We then showed people how to make lights blink and play sounds with their Arduinos, alternating between short presentations and hands-on experimentation.
Students seemed to really enjoy this class and told us they learned a lot from it. We’re really happy that this first class went so well and look forward to our next two classes.
Learn more about this class:
www.tammakers.org/arduino-101/
Read our Arduino 101 Guide:
bit.ly/arduino-101-guide-june-2016
Check out our course slides:
bit.ly/arduino-101-slides-june-2016
Learn more about Tam Makers:
We all had a great time in our first Arduino 101 class at Tam Makers, our new makerspace in Mill Valley. I taught this course with co-instructor Donald Day at the wood shop at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley on June 16, 2016.
A diverse group of ten students joined the class, including artists, technologists and people interested in learning new skills, as well as high school and middle school students and their parents. My partner Geo Monley and our friend Howard Rheingold also helped mentor the students during the hands-on sessions.
We started the class at 6pm, with an introduction to the popular Arduino processor, which is used by millions of hobbyists and makers around the world. We then showed people how to make lights blink and play sounds with their Arduinos, alternating between short presentations and hands-on experimentation.
Students seemed to really enjoy this class and told us they learned a lot from it. We’re really happy that this first class went so well and look forward to our next two classes.
Learn more about this class:
www.tammakers.org/arduino-101/
Read our Arduino 101 Guide:
bit.ly/arduino-101-guide-june-2016
Check out our course slides:
bit.ly/arduino-101-slides-june-2016
Learn more about Tam Makers:
Today’s Daily Shoot assignment is:
Paper is versatile and malleable. From napkins to origami, it's all around. Make a photo of something made of paper.
Cardboard boxes are stacked up high in the computer lab of the new media center. Fortunately, they are easily recycled...unlike the styrofoam packing inside of them. Lorenzo Walker campus, Naples, FL
Some of the websites the students need to access will only work on Windows. (isn't this the antithesis of The Web?).
...Sigh...
So I'm enabling three if the iMacs to boot Windows XP.
As you may recall, I've done this before. But our newly-remodeled labs reduced the number of machines. One of the casualties was the iMac that had Windows.
This still doesn't feel right.
Students in the EIU TRiO computer lab at Ninth Street Hall on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois on May 2, 2014. (Jay Grabiec)