Create your own drawing by using the online free turtlestitch. You can start off with an example or create your own drawing. When you're finished your drawing will be stitched on an embroidery machine and you can take it home. https://www.turtlestitch.org/
Unless stated otherwise, FOSDEM Junior workshops are intended for children aged 7 to 17. Don't forget to bring your own laptop.
How do small electronic devices with buttons, LEDs, sensors, sound, and robotic movements work? What programming languages and hardware are best for learning how to make your own electronically controlled gadgets starting at a young age? Our goal for the MicroBlocks project is to enable youth to be pioneers in STEM fields, working to make a brighter future based on open innovation.
This webinar introduces the concepts of smart devices and physical computing using MicroBlocks, a phenomenal open source software tool that has the power to revolutionize STEM learning opportunities globally. Older students can learn to turn their gadgets into IoT devices (“connected, or ‘smart’ devices”) using many built-in networking libraries. Younger students can simply make electronic things that fuel their imagination and curiosity.
Wanted for this workshop – the next generation of brilliant young minds!
Unless stated otherwise, FOSDEM Junior workshops are intended for children aged 7 to 17. Don't forget to bring your own laptop.
Let’s Code Trees is an interactive workshop where designs created using code can be stitched onto fabric. Suitable for aged 9 upwards.
Design and build your own tree, by writing a programme to create it. We'll explore several different ways of drawing trees using Turtlestitch, a block based programming language that turns designs into patterns that can be stitched by an embroidery machine. We'll begin by instructing the turtle to draw simple stems and branches to create a basic tree, then look at how to create more complex trees using blocks, loops and variables.
Turtlestitch: www.turtlestitch.org Resources: www.warwick.ac.uk/turtlestitch/patterntocode
Unless stated otherwise, FOSDEM Junior workshops are intended for children aged 7 to 17. Don't forget to bring your own laptop.
Let’s discover tonal sounds around us and embark on a sampling safari scavenging kitchen utensils (glasses, bottles, spoons, pots, kettles), office supplies (pencil sharpeners, papers ripping, bursting bags) and our bodies’ (in-)voluntary utterances (whistling, wheezing, sneezing, snipping, rasping, cracking, coughing, clapping) – and then turn them into beautiful melodies! We’ll explore various sampling rates to play back recordings at different pitches and learn how to use the algorithm of the Equal Temperament Chromatic Scale to synthesize them into musical tunes. Then we’ll figure out how to mathematically transform the waveform of our recordings into musical scales of semitones by stretching and compressing the sampled data and use this technique to compute personalized ringtones for our phones.
Unless stated otherwise, FOSDEM Junior workshops are intended for children aged 7 to 17. Don't forget to bring your own laptop.
Let's program an interactive maze game in Snap! This beginners workshop is open for children of all ages interested in learning how to make their own video games. We'll explore how to animate sprites, navigate them through a maze, prevent them from passing through walls, and make them reach the next level.
Unless stated otherwise, FOSDEM Junior workshops are intended for children aged 7 to 17. Don't forget to bring your own laptop.
Workshop: Create a Critter. Margaret Low. Audience: children aged 9 and up. Create your own finger puppet using turtlestitch. TurtleStitch is a block based language, that runs in the browser. Use turtlestitch to create the outline for your finger puppet. It’ll then be stitched by a digital embroidery machine onto two layers of felt, and you can then decorate it, adding eyes, hair, etc.
www.turtlestitch.org Tutorial: https://warwick.ac.uk/turtlestitch/project_2._finger_puppet.pdf
Unless stated otherwise, FOSDEM Junior workshops are intended for children aged 7 to 17. Don't forget to bring your own laptop.
Score! Your goal will be to teach a CoCube robot how to "shoot a soccer ball into the net".
You'll first learn the basics: how to program a https://www.cocubefun.com/ using https://microblocks.fun.
Then you'll apply your new programming skills to shoot, and score!
Unless stated otherwise, FOSDEM Junior workshops are intended for children aged 7 to 17. Don't forget to bring your own laptop.
In this workshop you'll create a little game that works in your computer, plus a physical controller -like the ones in gaming consoles- that you'll use to control the game you've made.
To program the video game and the controller we are going to use two different blocks-based programming languages: Snap! and MicroBlocks.
Snap! is a live, blocks-based language that delves into advanced programming concepts and is suitable for a rigorous introduction to computer science. MicroBlocks is also a live blocks-based programming language that runs on microcontrollers and is ideal to get started with electronics and physical computing.
Unless stated otherwise, FOSDEM Junior workshops are intended for children aged 7 to 17. Don't forget to bring your own laptop.
A short talk to get you started in coding your own flowers and stars, which can be embroidered!
Unless stated otherwise, FOSDEM Junior workshops are intended for children aged 7 to 17. Don't forget to bring your own laptop.