Coding Competition Winners
The Scratch coding competition that was run over the summer holidays has now finished and I have had great fun judging the entries. After failing to find suitable competition to…
This Summer’s Coding Competition
A huge thank you to everyone who took the time to enter their games they made into our summer competition. We'll be going through them all shortly and we'll announce the winners at the…
INVENT – A Monthly Makers’ Meet Up
If you're looking for a creative outlet, or need inspiration or help with a project you're working on, then you might be interested to know that I'm starting a free…
Retro Gaming Workshops
First Coding will now be running two Retro Gaming coding workshops this month. They're being held at The Old Fire Station in Salt Lane, Salisbury and each one costs just…
Birthday Party
This week saw First Coding host its very first children's party. The parents were looking to host a party with a difference and approached me to see what I could do…
Water Quality Monitoring
In today's sessions we were looking at how we could use the Microbit to measure water quality. One idea was to use the light sensor, shining a light through the…
A New Podcast
As part of the teaching resource subscription package, I've started a series of podcasts covering a multitude of topics designed to help teachers and educators. As a little taster, here…
A Musical Challenge
I set a challenge recently to see if pupils could make a simple note sequencer whereby you load notes into a loop and the Scratch programme cycles through the sequence, playing…
The Scratch Chatbots
I want to share one of the projects my group are working on at the minute. The task was to build a convincing chatbot in Scratch, homing in on particular…
The Motor Control Kit
The school talks I recently gave on electronic toy hacking highlighted a problem that motor control for the Raspberry Pi and Microbit could be made a great deal simpler (and…