Thursdays
3pm to 4pm
est November 10th 2022
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Our final session of the year will be on Thursday 6th July. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has been involved in ARC this year.
Each of the Year 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 pupils who attended brought with them fresh ideas, sustained interest and impressive creativity.
It has been our mission from the outset to encourage individual problem solving skills; collaborative working and the determination to solve every engineering challenge. Our pupils have very much risen to the occasion – and deserve credit for giving it their very best each week.
Special thanks also to Andy from Nationwide, our reliable STEM Ambassador and Troubleshooter General! Andy, your enthusiasm and urge to decompose challenges into manageable chunks is a tremendous help. Thank you also for your patience and diligence each week.
Last week saw three groups in particular achieve three impressive outcomes: Ryan and Kerr hacked Minecraft on a Raspberry Pi (whilst creating The Stack, Micro:Bit screen and sensing cluster); Neil, Charlie and Dan connected up sensor boards with the Environmental Science Kit; whilst Will achieved his long-standing mission: using the AI camera to discern different faces connected to two Micro:Bits that then radioed the result between them!
Useful Links:
The projects:
Purple: use AI to read an energy meter then send the results via email detailing the energy use of those appliances that are connected to the sensor plugs. Compare this usage to the pre-set limit. Will also use Sense-Hat to make LEDs indicate the amount of energy being used (red, yellow, green)
Heat Hunters: Design and build a roving robot that uses a thermal imaging camera to identify and locate heat wastage within the monitored area. Once detected the robot will stop at the location and alert the user through email. May also send a Bluetooth signal to a Micro:Bit as an instant alert.
Nerds: The Raspberry Pi will detect if a room is too hot or cold and it will send a notification to your phone to encourage you to adjust the thermostat. It will use an attached solar panel to measure the level of sunlight outside. Combined with the on board thermometer, this will monitor for conditions that allow the thermostat to be lowered due to the presence of sunshine.
The PA Consulting Competition Entries are taking shape..
The Micro:Bit metal detector in action:
Our Robot Race Christmas Extravaganza!
Previous Entries to the PA Competition:
