Lego Locks
This is cool and interesting, making locks from Lego. Great way to learn about the engineering principles behind locks and keys. I found a link to this on Fediverse (Mastodon) earlier, so am sharing.
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#STEM,#Engineering,#Locks,#Lego
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STEM Group – Mar 9 2024 – write up
We had a fairly busy session today., We had an update from Helen on the advanced Lego robot, this can now find its way around the room better and has better turning control.
We did some more on the robot building, tried to flash a Nintendo DS with new firmware, I am not sure if this worked properly.
Furthermore, we also had Rob, who brought along his MacBook running Ubuntu, and we tried, downloading Raspbian, but there were a few issues with this and writing to an SD card. This can be fixed for the next meeting.
We also had a good discussion about projects Rob is working on, had a look at some of his previous work (well photos of).
We also got the PC that one of the attendees is working on, so this now needs an OS and some other work, then we should have a complete system. I will add the software needed to the Ventoy disk before the next meeting.
So in all, an interesting and productive meeting, we are slowly building up a good group of people.
Project table 1
Project table 2
Video
I did a demonstration of my basic robot car, and made a video.
Robot Car Demo
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#STEM,#Paignton,#Cars.#Engineering
Next meeting
23rd March 2024
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Robot car 2
Another idea for making a simple car
I may have a go at this too, see which idea works best.
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#Stem,#Robot,#Car,#Electronics,#Engineering
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Major update announcement
We have decided to extend the STEM group to two Saturdays a month, so we will now meet on the 2nd Saturday as usual but also the 4th Saturday. The hours will now be 10:30 to 15:00.
We have room 12 available and will have some tables available for people to use. We want to keep this as one person (or small group) to one table. This gives people space to work on their projects.
A note on code club
Code club itself follows a specific set of activities, we had moved on significantly from this.
Code Club has therefore been shutdown. The IT learning centre will still be available to anyone wanting to carry on with what we were doing at code club. However, this will ONLY happen IF there is a library volunteer in the room.
There is no reason why code club can't restart once the computer room has been upgraded. For this to happen, we need two volunteers (who will need to apply to volunteer and undergo DBS and other background checks). Perhaps evenings after school.
We also need children and young people who are interested to sign up. As of Feb 2024. We can only really offer
Based activities.
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#STEM,#STEMGroup,#Science,#Technology,#Engineering,#Maths
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