Neit2010+Open+Space+5+E

Tim's example electronics projects There are a few projects I used in my classes. There are lots of other you can do. Before you embark on any of these or other you find, always wear safety glasses, build it once before the kids because no directions are ever perfectly straight forward and try to find a way to make the project unique. Kill-a-watt - plug in device to measure electricity usage. Solar Powered Phone/iPod Charger - There are a number of places to find plans for this (mighty minty boost - http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-solar-iPodiPhone-charger-aka-Might/) or Adafruits - http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2010/07/09/how-to-make-a-solar-mintyboost-a-solar-power-charger-for-your-gadgets/) You can get all the parts for this at adafruit.com (Limor Fried founded adafruit in NYC as a DIY electronics store with support and encouragment. All the kits are modable so you can make them your own or change them to suit your needs). Sparkfun.com is another good place for kits and parts.

The other projects I talked about is the Arduino.

Arduino Stuff

Software and info http://www.arduino.cc/ - place to download Arduino software and also lots of info and tutorials

http://www.modk.it/software - a newly developing version of arduino software that is like Scratch

Buying Arduinos http://www.Adafruit.com http://www.Sparkfun.com

Cool Shields Cool Shields lol Shield - lots of leds shield - chk Adafruit danger shield - board with lots of sliders, dials, and other input stuff to play with and program - Chk Sparkfun motor shield - controls motors and servos - chk many places including Adafruit and Sparkfun datalogger shield - logs data and saves it on a memory card.

http://www.arduino.cc/

 www.RoboExpo.org  April 30, 2011

 http://makerfaire.com/

 http://www.makerbot.com/ - 3D printers

Robotic Competitions First Lego League, First Tech Challenge http://www.usfirst.org

 Carnegie Mellon  http://www.education.rec.ri.cmu.edu/roboticscurriculum/index.html

 Logo Summer Institute  http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/workshops/summer.html

Robotics Kits

Wedo Pico Crickets Scratch Boards NXT <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Tetrix