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Maker Education and Coding
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Introduction
Coding For Beginners
Coding - Starting Without Technolgy
What is Maker Education?
What is a Maker Space?
Taking it Further
Popular Coding Resources
Bee-Bot and Blue-Bot
Scratch Jr. and Scratch
Ozobots
Micro:bits
Spheros
Raspberry Pi
Makey Makey
Circuit Playground Express
Digital Making Resources (non-coding)
Cricut Machine
Green Screening
3 D Printers
Virtual Reality - 360 Tours
Other Making Resources
Felting
Make Do Kits
Strawbees
Lending Library
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Maker Education and Coding
Circuit Playground Express
What is a
circuit playground express
? Click on the picture to find out.
Getting to Know your Circuit Playground Express
01 Get to Know Circuit Playground Express and MakeCode.pdf
Two quick videos on Controlling the LEDs and Using the sensors
Some Sample Projects to Try
Headlamp Project
Magic Wand
Experimenting with Sensors
Dandelion Project
Infrared Laser Tag
Try This:
Go the
makecode.adafruit.com
and click on the Siren tutorial to start coding an introductory program.
OR
Try this Headlamp Project
05 CPX - Head Lamp Project.pdf
OR
Try to duplicate the code completed in the Chapter 4 video: Controlling LEDs.
Once you created your code, click on the image below to find out how to load the program on your device
MakeCode for Circuit Playground Express
Microsoft MakeCode is a code editor for the Adafruit CircuitPlayground Express. You can drag and drop blocks or write JavaScript. MakeCode is web based so there is nothing to install to get started!
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