Circuits
Gaming through coding or coding through gaming. You decide.
Explore the basics of electronics and unlock infinite possibilities with just the basic circuits. Better By Design homegrown electronics kit - KHELO - let’s you do all of this in a fun and easy way by just snapping the bricks together.
Use common materials like cardboard, thermocol, paper, tape, rubberbands, popsicle sticks, paper cups along with KHELO to invent your own versions of circuits that solve problems around your house.
Program Curriculum
Coding Skill
- Intro to logic blocks
- External elements with logic (Conditionals and Loops)
- Servo, Conditionals, Sensors
Tools and Materials
- Scratch
- Makey Makey
- Cardboard
- Basic Cutting Tools
- Arduino Board
What You'll Learn
- Automate tasks on their computer by writing simple Python programs.
- Programatically generate and update Excel spreadsheets.
- Crawl web sites and pull information from online sources.
- Use Python's debugging tools to quickly figure out bugs in your code.
- Write programs that can do text pattern recognition with "regular expressions".
- Parse PDFs and Word Documents.
- Write programs that send out email notifications.
- Programatically control the mouse and keyboard to click and type for you.
Projects
- Build a mini fan
