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Solar Powered Car - Junior Solar Sprint Challenge

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Solar Powered Car - Junior Solar Sprint Challenge

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Build as designed or use as inspiration and modify your glider according to your imagination.

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Introduction: Design and Build a Glider Using Tinkercad

This Instructables guides you through how to design and manufacture your own Airbus Glider! Before we jump into this guide, start by first visiting Airbus Discovery Space where you can find some amazing lessons on why things fly. This will help to inform your glider's design and help to fly further than the competition.
https://www.airbus.com/company/discovery-space/sci...
Using Autodesk Tinkercad, you'll be taken step by step through the process of how to design and manufacture a glider using a 3D printer, laser cutter or just scissors. There's multiple ways to design and make your glider so why not try as many as possible to see what works best.

Step 1: Getting Started in Tinkercad

Instructions:

1. Go to the Tinkercad Website. If you already have an Autodesk account, sign in. If not sign up, it's free.

2. Once signed in, create a new design.

3. Change the name of your design by double clicking on the funny name.

4. Place a Cylinder on the work plane, change the dimensions of the cylinder to 5 x 5 x 50mm.

5. Change the amount of sides the cylinder has from 20 to 64 for a better resolution.

6. Change the orientation of the cylinder by using the black arrows at the top of part, rotate the cylinder by 90 degrees.

7. Congratulations, you've completed the main body of the Glider.

Step 7: Design, Iterate and Build!

Once you've completed your first glider, try changing the design using Tinkercad. Why not also try using different ways of manufacturing your glider to see which method works best.

Why not try downloading one of the example STL or SVG files?

Make sure to share your glider with us, thank you for watching this tutorial. Happy gliding!

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Design and Build a Glider Using Tinkercad: This Instructables guides you through how to design and manufacture your own Airbus Glider! Before we jump into this guide, start by first visiting Airbus Discovery Space where you can find some amazing lessons on why things fly. This will help to i...

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These parts will be 3D printed on our MakerBot 3D Printers and then will need to be assembled in order to build a robotic hand.

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I was inspired by R.I.P Wacław Sierpiński (Polish mathematician)
Few years before he passed away, he created mysterious patterns that made me inspire to make his triangle shape in 3Ds Max 17. Waslaw Sierpinski biography: [http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Sierpinski.html] This model is free, if you like the content I make you could buy me coffee
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tomciomalina - Sierpinski Triangle - Download Free 3D model by tomciomalina

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By Amy Cowen on November 4, 2022 4:00 PM
Inspire students of all ages to enjoy STEM when you let them loose in a creative makerspace! These hands-on engineering activities use simple materials and encourage students to brainstorm, problem solve, and innovate.
Enabling Exploration

Community makerspaces are collaborative spaces where people of all ages can get hands-on with science and engineering. With an array of materials available, a visit to a local makerspace is an invitation to play with science and engineering and really see how things work.

You may have a makerspace in your school or at the library, or maybe you have an area of your classroom dedicated to maker activities students can explore or certain days of the week on which you turn the room into a makerspace. With a few materials and a surface to work on, garage or basement spaces can easily be recast as home makerspaces, too!

You don't have to have expensive materials to start up your own makerspace. With an assortment of craft supplies, electronics parts, and recycled materials, you can set up a makerspace full of inspiring STEM that kids can explore. Figuring out what will work with the materials available is part of the challenge and part of the fun!

Bookmark or pin these projects to add to your makerspace!

Update! This post has been updated for 2022!

Free Projects and Activities for Your Makerspace

Try one of these STEM projects for creative hands-on science and engineering with a DIY "maker" flair:

1. Make Cardboard Automata: Plan and build an automaton from cardboard and craft materials.

2. Build a Wind-Powered Car: Add a sail to a DIY toy car and experiment to see how changes to the sail make a difference in the car's stability and speed.

3. Build a Differential from K'Nex®: Use the K'Nex® toy building system to build a model differential.

4. Build A Wall Marble Run: Use cardboard tubes and other simple materials to build a wall marble run.

5. Make an Awesome Paper Lantern: Design and make a paper lantern that holds a battery-operated tealight candle or uses a night light circuit.

6. Flippy, the Dancing Robot: Build a simple dancing robot and use the engineering design process to improve it.

7. Build a Paper Roller Coaster: Build a paper roller coaster and try to add a loop.

8. 3D Print with Sand: No 3D Printer Required!: Use sand and glue to simulate one type of 3D printing.

9. DIY Mini Propeller Car: Make a small toy car with a simple circuit and a propeller.

10. Build a Robot Hand: Use craft materials to design and build a robotic hand.

11. Build a Mini Trebuchet: Use craft sticks, rubber bands, and other craft materials to make and explore the physics behind a miniature trebuchet.

12. DIY Light Up Unicorn Headband: Make a unicorn horn headband with a paper circuit that lights an LED at the tip.

13. Build a Rubber Band-Powered Car: Build a car with an axle made from straws and rubber bands that store potential energy when wound.

14. Build a Popsicle Stick Catapult: Make a small catapult from craft sticks and rubber bands.

15. Duplicate Your Drawings with a Machine: Make and experiment with a pantograph, a device that can be used to make a larger or smaller copy of a drawing.

16. Make a Paper Circuit: Learn how to make simple circuits from paper, copper tape (or aluminum foil), and a battery. (See Paper Circuits Science Projects for additional ways to explore.)

17. Make a Cotton Ball Launcher: Use a recycled cardboard tube to make a launcher that can launch lightweight materials.

18. The Impossible Arrow Illusion: 3D print and explore the "impossible arrow" illusion - the arrow's reflection in a mirror always points the other way!

19. Make Your Own Harmonica!: Explore how a harmonica creates sound waves by making a small one from wooden sticks, rubber bands, and a straw.

20. DIY Mini Drone: Make a basic mini drone. (Add additional parts to explore a series of questions related to drone flight.)

21. Build a Balloon Car: Use a balloon to power a homemade toy car.

22. Study Kinetic Energy with a Rube Goldberg Machine: Use assorted materials to create a set of chain reactions in a machine designed to perform a simple task.

23. Build a Cardboard Scissor Lift: Use craft materials to make a scissor lift and explore simple machines.

24. Junkbots: Robots from Recycled Materials: Design and build simple robots made from recycled and craft materials.

25. Build a Paper Speaker: Make a working speaker from paper and neodymium magnets.

26. Make a Night-Light: Build a working night-light with an intermediate circuit project and design the custom housing, too!

Makerspace Learning in Action

The following STEM videos demonstrate some of the highlighted activities:

Ready for More Makerspace Ideas?

See 16 Next-Level Makerspace STEM Projects for projects and activities to help scale your makerspace for students ready for additional challenge.

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An overview of the features of the BBC micro:bit, the pocket-sized computer transforming digital skills learning.

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With Libby looking like a success, the next step is to decide what she will do. With the help of my Girls Who Code middle school students, we worked together to create a wish list of things that we wanted Libby to do. These girls have lots of experience with the micro:bit and were able to consider all of its inputs and outputs in their plans. Our wish list included:

When you pick up Libby: lights up and makes a happy noise using the accelerometer as a sensor

When you put down Libby: make a sad noise using the accelerometer as a sensor

When you speak to it, Libby giggles using the accelerometer as a sensor

When you press a button it starts a reading timer, letting you know how long you have been reading

Use the LEDs to create a light for late night reading

After some trial and error, I added code that does the following:

A Button: greets you and starts the reading timer

B Button: lets you know how much time has passed and cheers you on

A+B Button together: Ends your timer, tells you how much time you've read and celebrates!

Putting Libby Face Down: She says goodbye

(We eliminated some of the items from our wish list because they made Libby noisier that we wanted a book buddy to be!)

We tried coding in python and block for the project. See the attached .hex file or the python code below.

time = 0

def on_button_pressed_a():

global time

time = 0

music.play(music.builtin_playable_sound_effect(soundExpression.hello),

music.PlaybackMode.UNTIL_DONE)

basic.show_icon(IconNames.HEART)

basic.show_string("Read!")

basic.show_icon(IconNames.HEART)

basic.pause(500)

basic.clear_screen()

while not (input.button_is_pressed(Button.B)):

basic.pause(1000)

time += 1

input.on_button_pressed(Button.A, on_button_pressed_a)

def on_gesture_screen_down():

music.play(music.builtin_playable_sound_effect(soundExpression.sad),

music.PlaybackMode.UNTIL_DONE)

input.on_gesture(Gesture.SCREEN_DOWN, on_gesture_screen_down)

def on_button_pressed_ab():

global time

basic.show_string("You read...")

basic.show_number(time)

basic.show_string("seconds!")

basic.pause(500)

music.play(music.builtin_playable_sound_effect(soundExpression.soaring),

music.PlaybackMode.UNTIL_DONE)

time = 0

basic.pause(500)

basic.show_icon(IconNames.HEART)

basic.clear_screen()

input.on_button_pressed(Button.AB, on_button_pressed_ab)

def on_button_pressed_b():

basic.show_number(time)

basic.pause(500)

music.play(music.builtin_playable_sound_effect(soundExpression.happy),

music.PlaybackMode.UNTIL_DONE)

basic.show_icon(IconNames.HAPPY)

basic.pause(500)

basic.clear_screen()

input.on_button_pressed(Button.B, on_button_pressed_b)

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"Libby" the Literary Micro:pet: Libby is your new reading buddy! She perches at the top of your page and cheers you on as you read a great book. Not only is she a smiling face that you can share a story with or can save your place in your favorite story, Libby is coded to do so mu...

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Introduction: Micro:Bit Puppet "Text Messaging"!

Nearly all of our wireless communication is done using radio waves*, including phone calls, text messages, and WiFi. With its built-in radio transmitters and receivers, the Micro:Bit microcontroller makes it super easy to build all sorts of projects with radio communication.

This particular project is a simple & quick way to send text messages between two Micro:Bit** microcontrollers - the sender writes a (short) message that is transmitted via radio to the receiving Micro:Bit, which shakes a lil' puppet using a servo motor, and then displays the message on the Micro:Bit LED screen. Each Micro:Bit can be both a sender and receiver.

It's sort of like a two-person Twitter.. if the tweet notified you via dancing cardboard robot puppet!
*Radio waves are long-wavelength light waves. **A huge THANK YOU to Adafruit for donating the Micro:Bit microcontrollers used in this project for educational purposes! yayy thank you for supporting this educational endeavor!! :D Check out the electromagnetic spectrum here!

Step 1: Materials & Tools

Electronics

Puppet (or other Message Alert System) Materials

Tools

Hot Glue Gun

Scissors and/or utility knife (e.g. exacto knife)

Pencil

Ruler or other straightedge

Step 2: Build the Incoming Message Alert Puppet!

Step 1: Build a cardboard puppet like the one shown in the photo or create your own! Use the paper fasteners to make joints. Step 2: Build a mounting system to attach the puppet to the servo with skewers and cardboard.
I used a magnet to attach the puppet to the servo mounting system because magnets are awesome, but you can also use glue, tape, velcro, or a variety of other adhesives!
Step 3:

On an approx. 6 in. x 12 in. cardboard sheet, measure, mark, and cut a hole for the servo body so that the arms of the servo rest against the front of the cardboard sheet.

Cut two triangles out of cardboard and glue them on the back of the stand so that the stand, well, stands upright!

Cut a hole for the Micro:Bit wires to thread through and add two pushpins on the front to hold the Micro:Bit.

Build a stand for the puppet.

Step 3: Code the Two Micro:Bits!

To start, choose one Micro:Bit to be the sender and the other Micro:Bit to be the receiver. Once both are working as expected, add in the code for both roles.

Use the Make Code Micro:Bit website to program each Micro:Bit. As this is intended as a beginner project, the whole system can be built using the block-based programming language, although adaptations are encouraged and appreciated!
If there is more than one pair of Micro:Bits in the room (i.e. in a classroom setting), remember to set different radio group numbers for each pair.
The sender sends a (short) text based on user inputs over radio, like the example above. Pretty simple!
The receiver moves the servo when an incoming text is received, then scrolls the message text on the LED screen, like in the example below.
Press the reset button to stop sending/receiving the incoming message.

Step 4: Connect the Servo!

Connect the servo red wire to the Micro:Bit 3V power pin, the servo black wire to Micro:Bit ground pin, and the servo white (or yellow) wire to the Micro:Bit input pin P0.

Step 5: Send All the Messages!

Program both Micro:Bits to be both a sender and a receiver so you can communicate back and forth. Then switch power from the laptop to the battery pack and test out your wireless communication system! When the sender sends a message, the puppet will notify you to check the LED screen so that you can see the incoming message.

How far of a range can you get? Test it out!

There are tons of other extensions to this introductory project, here are some possibilities:

Add more message options by adding more inputs or changing how those inputs are read;

Instead of a table-top alert system, build a wearable alert system;

Send voice messages and/or other sounds.

Happy building!

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