CodeBug Conundrum

QuizBug, a CodeBug IoT educational project making-of

Cheers, Enrico

I love this! I do a lot of hands-on workshops with elementary aged kids and I think this would be a really fun project for them. I recently taught some 10 year-olds how to solder and they all took to it pretty quickly. I think most of them could probably handle this project.

What age or age group do you think would be ideal for this type of project? How young of a child do you think could handle understanding and executing the complexity of wiring the support boards, as well as programming the CodeBug?

Frankly I think that the age of 7-10 is perfect, better 7 than 10. Consider that years ago I have created (with a computer, scanner, camera, and paint program) a collection of e-book with not yet scholarized child (4-5 y.o.) then we published this ebooks on paper and they played discovering how a book is created...

Enrico

Hey Karen,

Here are a few...ok..err...10... projects we put together earlier this month.

10 CodeBug Projects in 10 Days

Enjoy!

Hi Karen,

I was hoping to try my codebug to see if it could detect someone going in and out of a doorway.

I thought I could run some conductive strips down the door jam to see if the inputs were sensitive enough to tell if someone walked through and if so were they coming in or coming out.

That would make an interesting show.

DAB

Hi DAB,

I'm curious how that would work. I'm not sure I know what type of conductive strips you might use. Everything I can think of would require a physical contact. Would you use it to detect when a door is opened or closed rather than when a person passes through the doorway or do you have a better way that doesn't require a physical contact? All I can think to use would be either a proximity or motion sensor. Please tell me more about your idea!

~Karen

Hi Karen,

I forgot that the Code Bug does not have capacitive sense, but you could use two IR distance measurement sensors to tell when anyone entered and exited the doorway.

You could also use two Ultrasonic measurement devices.

Then use the Code Bug display to make an arrow showing which direction the last person going through the doorway went.

DAB