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Welcome to the educational wiki! Notes and memos from my journey through STEM activities.

I am hoping to put together some pieces of code and some documentation of ideas. I intend to use this stuff to help kids at some local schools to begin to explore and understand computing and electronics, with a variety of science, technology, engineering and maths thrown in for good measure...

Raspberry Pi :

• getting started with a new sd card PiInstall
• connectivity
• project ideas

Programming Tools:

• scratch
• scratchGPIO
• python3 idle python.gpio
• ruby kidsruby + shoes ruby
• javascript node.js javascript

Real World Interaction, Physical Computing:

• Raspberry Pi GPIO
• Sensing : Switch, Ultrasound, Attitude, sensors
• Doing - Actuators : Motors, Relays, Lights, Sounds,
• Controllers : Android,

Modelling:

• Lego
• Kinex
• ABS Plastic

Electronics:

• Bench Power Supply
• BreadBoard Experiments +PCB printing http://fritzing.org/services/

Games:

• pygame

Northern Ireland Schools Curriculum http://www.nicurriculum.org.uk/

• http://www.nicurriculum.org.uk/docs/key_stages_1_and_2/northern_ireland_curriculum_primary.pdf
• Using ICT
• World around Us
• Science and Technology