This page contains links to the online tools, videos and handouts used at our events. All materials are made available under the Creative Commons License - Attribution-ShareAlike.
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Documents: Presentation, Printing Handout (TinkerCad), Heart Pendant (BlocksCAD), Sound pendant (BlocksCAD)
Videos: Robohand, 3D Metal Printing, Printing a car, Shapeways
Websites: Thingiverse, Tinkercad, BlocksCAD
Materials: Access to 3D printer(s)
Document: Presentation, Helpful equations handout, Jupyter Notebooks (GitHub)
Websites: Activity - Pattern, Python Turtle, Cardioid, Make Art
Documents: Presentation, Building and MergeCube, Merge Cube template, CoSpaces Shortcuts
Websites: CoSpaces
Document: Presentation, Menger Sponge Handout
Websites: Turtle Graphics, Koch Snowflake, Koch Snowflake Solution, Menger Sponge (BlocksCAD), Menger Sponge Solution, Scratch Fractal Examples (not used in class)
Videos: What is a Fractal? (full video), The Freaky World of Fractals
Documents: Presentation
Websites: MicroBit Information, MicroBit Coding
Materials: MicroBit, MicroBit breadboard
Documents: Presentation
Websites: Grades Ledger, Blockchain Game, Blockchain in Python (not covered in class)
Documents: Presentation
Websites: VoiceFlow, Quotes Generator Demo, Poem Generator Demo, Quotes, Jokes
Documents: Presentation
Websites: The logistical map, Solution
Videos: This equation will change how you see the world (the logistic map)
Documents: Presentation, Walk & Turn Handout, Epidemic Handout
Websites: StarLogo Nova, Epidemic projects, Class links
Documents: Presentation, Helpful Commands Handout, EarSketch Documentation
Websites: EarSketch
Documents: Presentation, Helpful Equations Handout
Websites: Make Turtle Art, Inspiration: Math Art Demos, Fractal Demos, Photo Filter Demos: Demo 1, Demo 2
AI inspired Demos: Magic Sketchpad, Style Transfer, GAN Image Generation, Art Breeder, Google Art & Culture
Documents: Presentation
Websites: Starting project, Solution, W3Schools Cookie Example - You can run the examples locally or on any web server
Documents: Presentation
Websites: Circuit Playground Makecode, Circuit Playground, Musical Glove Project
Documents: Presentation
Videos: Asking people for their passwords
Websites: Cyber Threat Map 1, Cyber Threat Map 2, Test your password, Steganography
Challenges: Nova Cyber Lab, Desert Oasis, Cipher Crack the Code, Interland
Documents: Presentation
Websites: Programming Environment, Code Examples
Documents: Getting started with the Pico, Monk Makes Kit Instructions (note the code will not work directly in Circuit Python)
Documents: Presentation, Worksheets
Websites: Online Cipher Wheel, Caesar cipher tool, Desert Oasis, Agnes Driscoll, Crypto Club
Video: Bletchley Park, Encryption (complete video)
Documents: Presentation, Handout, HTML Cheat Sheet
Websites: MicroBit Information, MicroBit Coding, MicroBit Web Monitor, Emoji codes, color picker
Materials: MicroBit
Documents: Presentation, Account Setup Instructions
Websites: MongoDB
Documents: Presentation, Foldscope Users Guide, MicroCosmos, Foldscope App
Videos: Fold Scope Assembly Instruction Video, Preparing Samples Video
Materials: Foldscope
Documents: Presentation, GitHub Cheat Sheet
Websites: GitHub, Git, ORCSGirls Project Repository, Octocat Generator, GitHub Quick Start
Documents: Presentation, Python Cheat Sheets, Jupyter Notebooks (GitHub)
Notebooks: Lists, Bubble Sort, Solution Bubble Sort, ChiliGame
Video: BBC The Secret Rules of Modern Living Algorithms (complete video)
Documents: Presentation
Websites: MicroBit Information, MicroBit Coding, Microbit Project Ideas
Materials: MicroBit
Documents: Presentation, Presentation Rocket Edition, CoSpaces Shortcuts
Websites: CoSpaces
Documents: Presentation, Picogame Library Documentation, Picogame Code
Websites: Circuit Python Editor, Example code
Documents: Presentation
Websites: Piktochart, Reliable data sources, Data.gov, CIA World Factbook
Documents: Presentation, Firmware Handout
Videos: What is the Internet of Things
Websites: Particle Photon Examples, Particle Coding Environment (account needed), Web Page Generator
Documents: Presentation, CoSpaces Handout, Merge Cube template
Video: McGurk Effect (full video)
Websites: 3D Drawing Pad, VR Javascript, CoSpaces
Apps: Google Cardboard (iPhone - Android), CoSpaces (iPhone - Android)
Materials: Google Cardboard
Documents: Presentation, HTML and CSS information
Websites: Try it Editor, W3Schools - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Color picker
Examples: Temperature converter
Documents: Presentation, Presentation (Mini Camp), Python Cheat Sheets, Jupyter Notebooks (GitHub)
Notebooks: Notebooks, Introduction and Make a Python Game, Word Cloud from Wikipedia, Solution - Guessing Game
Websites: Jupyter, Google Colaboratory
Documents: Presentation, Presentation Mini Camp, Jupyter Notebooks (GitHub)
Notebooks: Python Introduction, Fruit Classifier, Cat Classifier
Videos: Machine Learning Recipes with Josh Gordon (not shown in class)
Websites: Drawing Completion Tool, Teachable Machine (old version), Tensorflow Playground, Classifier Page Builder, Webcam Pacman (not shown in class)
Documents: Presentation
Activities: The Binary Game, Logic Simulator
Examples: Gates, Half Adder, Full Adder, Error Correction (Python), Logic Gates Error Correction
Videos: Hamming codes part 1, part 2
Documents: Presentation, HTML and CSS information sheet
Activities: Getting to know HTML and CSS, Flamingo page example
Documents: Presentation
Websites and Materials: See Introduction to VR and Game Physics classes.
Documents: Presentation
Websites: App Lab, Numbers API, NASA Open APIs
Demo Apps: Fun with numbers
Mars Explorer Apps: Version 1, Version 2, Deluxe Version (with Zoom).
Documents: Presentation
Websites: Circuit Playground Makecode, Musical Glove Instructions
Documents: Presentation, Python Cheat Sheets, Jupyter Notebooks (GitHub)
Notebooks: Python Refresher, Objects in Python, Game Example, Game Example Solution, Create a Card Game, Card Game Solution
Resources: Why is Object Oriented Programming Useful?, Game Example Video
Documents: Presentation
Websites: Pixlr Editor, Image Processing Example 1, Image Processing Example 2
Documents: Presentation, Handout
Websites: Quantum Chess, Qubit Game - Other resources: QuanTime, Other quantum resources
Materials: Polarization filters (3D printer needed, link for filters in the description)
Documents: Presentation, Program Edison Handout (Scratch), Program Edison Handout (Python)
Websites: Edison Programming Environment (Python), Edison Programming Environment (Scratch)
Videos: Robot back flip, Robot doing dishes
Materials: Edison Robots
Documents: Presentation
Websites: MicroBit Information, MicroBit Programming Environment for Robot (robot extension preloaded)
Examples: Robot Square Example Code, Trapped Robot Example Code, Dance Example: First Robot - Other Robots
Videos: Robot back flip, Robot doing dishes
Materials: MicroBit, Maqueen robot, Maqueen robot tutorials
Documents: Presentation
Websites: Intelino Central, Intelino Scratch, Intelino trains, Scratch examples
Documents: Presentation, Presentation (Camp), Python Cheat Sheets, Jupyter Notebooks (GitHub)
Notebooks: Python Refresher, Book Length, Most Popular Words, Most Popular Spells, Sentiment Analysis, Bonus - Star Wars
Websites: Jupyter, Harry Potter Chapter 13
Documents: Presentation
Websites: Emoji Maker, HTML Emoji Coding, HTML Emoji Modifiers, Emoji Explorer, Emojipedia
Videos: Who Invented Emojis?, The Apple Emoji Origin Story, Where Do Emojis Come From?