Progress Documented
I wouldn’t publish this video if it wasn’t for one observation: this electricity project would have taken two hours just a few months ago. Now Simon assembles things like this … Continue reading Progress Documented
Category: Electricity
Lego WeDo
After he tried it during a Digisnacks group session last month Simon really wanted to have his own Lego WeDo set. The waiting seemed endless, Sinterklaas lost the parcel once and … Continue reading Lego WeDo
Conductive Painting
We made a talking poster with Bare Conductive paint and touch board today: The poster on the wall next to Simon’s room: This is how we made it. … Continue reading Conductive Painting
Simon draws series and parallel circuits with conductive paint
Simon loves the conductive paint. After we finished making the Bare Conductive Voltage Village kit (previous post), he made two circuits, parallel and series, on his own without and help … Continue reading Simon draws series and parallel circuits with conductive paint
Cold soldering with Bare Conductive electric paint
On Sunday Simon found a Bare Conductive electric paint set in his shoe. Sinterklaas knows exactly what Simon wants! Today we tried cold soldering for the first time! The project involved … Continue reading Cold soldering with Bare Conductive electric paint
What is Simon’s level in coding and problem solving?
Simon carried out a project on his new RaspberryPi today that allows to see his programming and problem solving level quite well. Luckily I was there on time with my … Continue reading What is Simon’s level in coding and problem solving?
Explaining schematics
Drawn from memory: Logic gates:
Is pencil conductive?
Simon was trying to make a circuit using graphite pencil as conductor but it wasn’t strong enough to make an LED burn. We actually measured the voltage with the multimeter … Continue reading Is pencil conductive?
Kirchoff’s Current Law
On Monday Simon’s math tutor and I agreed that Simon should try some problem solving involving both math and electricity, considering his current interest. We chose Electricity and Magnetism > Current … Continue reading Kirchoff’s Current Law
Ohm’s Law Applied to Lemons
Simon wrote a poster with electricity formulas (from memory) this morning and applied one of them (Ohm’s law) to his advanced lemon experiment. We had already tried this experiment … Continue reading Ohm’s Law Applied to Lemons
Joules per second
The new Adventures in Science video episode by SparkFun is out! This time on electric power.
Geeks out of the box 