Activities
Make an insect robot
Make an insect robot Who doesn’t want to make one? It’s ultra-cheap to make, takes about 20 minutes to make and it moves just like a confused ant!
See a building block of life
The world underneath This is the closeup of an onion. In fact, so up and close, that you can actually see the cells and the nucleus within each one of them.
Solder 101
Solder something, anything! Just about every electronics project will need you to solder something. But if you have never soldered anything before, now is a great time to get started.
Test a relay
Testing an electromechanical relay A brand new set of electromechanical relays arrived yesterday. This is a quick guide on how to test a relay.
Turn a wheel programmatically
Write a program to control a motor “I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
All aboard the electromagnetic train!
The first time the train runs, it will be like magic! Of course, it is just physics, no magic needed here.
The worlds first electric motor
Imagine a life without motors. Imagine a day without using motors! No fans, no cars, and yes even no phones.
Turn a wheel programmatically
In this activity you get to control a simple DC motor using a computer program written using the Python programming language.
Home made battery
In 1799, an amazing experiment was demonstrated to the world by a scientist called Allesandro Volta.