micro:bit Projects with Python and Single Board Computers: Building STEAM Projects with Code Club and Kids' Maker Groups

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4. Getting Tactile with Python

Martin Tan¹  

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Doncaster Heights, VIC, Australia

 

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

—Dorothy Parker

Making things with your hands is engaging – one way to stop someone from fidgeting is to give them something to hold and play with. In this chapter, we add some crafty skills to the mix and leverage our other skills to tie everything together.

A Quick Tale: Keeping It Simple to Build Bigger

One of the earlier workshops we ran at our code club leveraged a couple of JoyLabz’ Makey Makey¹ boards that we’d been given. ...