DESCRIPTION: Microbit, littleBits, coding, simple machines, electronics, and smart DIY sensors! How would you hack these creative technologies to build your own smart robots and gadgets for the underwater world, a secret oasis, or the tiniest bug on the planet? The Hacking Smart Robots consists of a series of hands-on projects focused on designing and testing several smart gadgets, robots, and machines that can support youth to better learn, play, and invent with technology. Participants will learn the fundamentals in coding, electronics, and fabrication techniques while working with the coding language and tools that are compatible with their level of expertise. They make their robots wave with pistons, slide with levers, spin with cam twisters, move with air, paint with pendulums, jump with elastic forces, pick up things with pulleys, move things up and down with pneumatics, put up a show with a conveyer belt belly, and so much more! They will also go through the whole design and engineering process unique to The GIANT Room model and applicable to future school assignments and personal explorations.
Recommended for ages 6-9
FORMAT: In Person at GIANT Chelsea Hub
DATES: Thursdays at 3:30-5:30pm, from Apr. 28th to Jun. 23rd (skipping 6/09 for public school holidays)
LEARN ABOUT
Coding fundamentals: Loops, logic, variables, function, and more
Microcontrollers, inputs, and outputs
Designing smart DIY sensors with electronics and incorporating them in robotic design
PRICE: $50 per session when you sign up for the full semester or $60 per individual session
