What's Coming up:
Ultimately, we'll be covering a wide enough range of subjects that there is something for everyone who's ever been down a rabbit hole.
->Coming up in Term 4<-
Hand make a digital watch. Learn what each component is & how it works. From the prototypes though the coding & failures to the final build.
Battery's
&
Magnets
Targeted learning based on age and aptitude.
->Upcoming as course content in 2025<-
(but available in the Lab at all times)
Tho, don’t wait till next year to decide to jump in, because I’m only running 2 primary and 2 secondary classes of 6-8 students each!!!
!!!Robot Wars!!!
->MECHATRONICS<-
Makers will do battle at the end of term with their self-designed and constructed mini bots.
This will grow to be THE big event annually, As makers build on their learnings and mistakes and take wins with losses.
It will be the class that draws together the elements explored in the other terms.
- Learn the basics of movement control
- Wheel Vs Track Vs Leg
- Control typologies: Remote/Radio/Automated
- Power systems (Battery) management / limitations
- Sensor arrays and their implementation
- ‘Use of weapons’ – a great book by Iain m Banks
Air Brush and Hand Painting miniatures:
->Object Source lighting
->Spectral lighting Techniques
3D Printing & CAD design: Resin / FDM
- Small / Medium & Large format printers.
- FDM (Fused Deposition Material) Filament printing
- SLS (Stereolithography) Resin printing
- Using Industry standards such as ‘AutoDesk’ products & leading open source tools like ‘Blender’
- Free printing available for anything designed by a student in class.
-->SOLDERING<--
Awesome
Hand-Eye Co-ordination
SKillz
SMD
Through Hole
Hot Air rework Station
Circuit board manufacturing & Etching
PCB Software tools
Mechatronics
Project Design,
Overcoming failure,
IoT Implementation.
R/C :
Cars / Planes / Drones
- DIY
- Scratch Built
- Balsa wood
- Doped Papper
- FPV (first Person Vision)
- Racing
- Custom design sofware / hardware
Coding and 8BIT game design
unless you have a time machine
or get on bored with Dan 🙂
Guitar pedal design and construct
Modular Synth builds
Amplifier builds
Valve/Solid state
Analog vs Digital
DIY Bluetooth
BOOMBOX
->Logically Last, But not least<-
So how does a Computer ACTUALLY work?
We will build one.....
Yes, Once again, MC will open up new worlds to explore!