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In Technocamps we’re going to be running an easter holiday workshop on wearable computing, which will use lilypad arduinos to build cool things you can wear. We’ve got a half-tem holiday workshop going on right now (“Making Robots See”) so I’ve been tasked with going up there and doing a short talk on wearables. So I made one: It’s really basic – just four LEDs and a short program that cycles back and forth lighting them up in turn – but it was really fun to put together. It didn’t take that long either. If you know a young person (11-19) in Ceredigion who fanciesRead More →

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One of the modules I’ve been teaching this year is called “Interactive Web Programming”, so I’ve been fairly internet-heavy in my teaching and my activities. It’s a small group (30 in the class) and I’m teaching in a computer lab, so I thought it’d be kinda fun to experiment with twitter in teaching. My slides are all written in HTML (well, specifically, HTML5/JavaScript/JQuery, as that’s what I’m teaching). This makes it trivial to include live twitter stuff (or “twitterfalls”) in a lecture for instant open-ended quiz-like goodness, or for any other kind of feedback The way I did this was to choose a hashtag (#aber_iwp)Read More →