Hardware & Software

A computing system is composed of hardware, software, and the individuals who use them. Hardware refers to the physical components that make up a computing device. Software refers to the program instructions that operate on such hardware.

Scratch - Count the Creatures

9-12.NSD.1

Design a solution to a problem that utilizes embedded systems to automatically gather input from the environment.

Computers can be used to study wildlife in areas where it is not practical to do this.

In this project, you will create a wildlife camera that can count creatures of different colours that pass in front of it. You will use different-coloured paper or objects to represent different-coloured birds.

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View Finished Project Here.