Educator’s Workshop: What’s a Microcontroller? with Python and micro:bit (April 25, 27, 29, 2022) CLOSED

This course is over. View the session recordings below.

Get a jump-start on teaching this series of lessons designed to add a pre-engineering focus to maker programs. Combining circuit-building, Python scripting, and signal measurement, these lessons support career technology education (CTE) programs in coding, product design, and manufacturing. The barriers to use are low: a micro:bit module and some breadboard-friendly components from Parallax in one convenient kit! Designed with high school in mind, this program adapts well to middle school and college too.

Workshop activities:

• Set up connections for programming and measurements with the micro:bit Python editor and Parallax cyberscope.
• Identify how circuits and scripts are used in common product designs, and how they can be applied to inventions.
• Demonstrate electricity basics and science and engineering principles as they are applied in new and fun circuit applications.
• Construct and test circuits with scripts, and measure them with the cyberscope virtual multimeter/oscilloscope.
• Experiment with the micro:bit module’s on-board capabilities—display, buttons, radio, temperature, tilt, compass—with circuits the students can build on a breadboard.
• Apply the concepts with projects for infrared, accelerometer, and a servo motor in the kit.
• Access and review the student and educator resources for the program.

Questions?

If you aren’t sure if this class is right for you, contact us via education@parallax.com, or call the Educator Hotline at (916) 701-8625. Tell us about your needs and ask us your questions.

Note that this workshop is open only to Educators who are in the USA.