Tools for Technology Students

This blog explores issues related to the use of information technology in high school as well as the use of microcontrollers and electronics in Technology courses.

Monday, August 6, 2012

Raspberry Pi up and running

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I received a Raspberry Pi computer about a month ago and had to put it aside to teach a summer course.  I also wanted some time to look aro...
Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Awards and bursaries for High School Students.

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Many companies 'give back' in many ways and if you do then good on you. If you are looking for a way to 'give back' think a...
Sunday, June 3, 2012

Cool use of Smart phones in the classroom

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In their grade 12 summative students had to design, build and test a complex (series/parallel) circuit that included 2 IR LEDs. The big ques...

2D LED Matrix Summative challenge

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A 2 day independent summative challenge this year was to use an Arduino, Stamp or OOPic to program an LED matrix to show the students' i...

3x3x3 LED cube.

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I always wanted to try this project out. We just followed some of the examples on line and had terrific results. Here you can see one progra...
Thursday, May 3, 2012

Spartan Robotics team all time best

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I spent all day Monday and Tuesday this week supervising a 4 student robotics team at the Ontario Skills competition in Waterloo. This was t...
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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Who will be our 21rst century heroes?

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I took four senior programming students to the ECOO Regional programming competition up at York University on Saturday. 54 teams of 4. Over ...
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