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…
The Code Machine
I love hearing about the journeys pupils' projects have taken them on, so I thought I would share one of my own. At the end of last year I put…
Summer Holiday Workshops
The first of the summer holiday workshops have now been confirmed. If your son or daughter would like a challenge over the summer, or would like a taster of the…
Classes
As our half term workshops come to an end, there's no need to worry. First Coding will continue to run after-school and weekend classes for the remainder of the school year.
The Automatic Plant Waterer
A pupil, bored with being tasked with watering his grandma's plants whilst she's on holiday, used his Microbit lessons to build an automatic plant watering system. The water pump is…