At the end of July 2013, BBC Knowledge and Learning asked us to facilitate a series of workshops inspired by the M.I.High spy kids show, and exploring the different behaviours which an M.I. High communicator could have.
Cefn Hoile and Patrick Fenner ran a series of workshops with ninety kids over three days, teaching them the basics of @ShrimpingIt hacking, based on our Shrimp Arduino-compatible hobby board layout.
M.I. High communicator prototypes
During the session we explored both digital and analog control of Red-Green-Blue (RGB) Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) to produce colors and color sequences. We fired up vibration motors, and played different beeps and tunes through Piezo Transducers. In some cases there was even enough time to make up Persistence of Vision communicators to paint text in the air!
Delegates trying to work on their circuits at home should first prove they can follow the first-time configuration information for their home computer at our Shrimp pages. Once ‘Blink‘ is working, they can access resources we used during the workshop from…
http://shrimping.it/workshops/mihigh
…including the example libraries needed to replicate the builds at home (Tone, rtttl and mihigh folders should be extracted in the libraries folder of your Arduino sketchbook – see your Arduino preferences to find out where this is – then restart Arduino IDE to see the same examples as you did in the session).
Delegates are welcome to get in touch and follow up with us to help them make progress with their kits, whether to replicate the projects during the session, or to progress to other Arduino projects using the kits we shared.
