Bushfire Risk Indicator

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Overview This resource is in five parts Resource 1: Learn how to operate a servo. Resource 2: Use a servo to make a rudimentary bush fire risk indicator controlled by buttons on the Kookaberry Resource 3: Use a temperature sensor to change the risk level. Resource 4: Learn how to debug a programme in real time Resource 5: Build and …

Conserving Energy

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This project explores the conservation of energy in family households. It brings together the two Australian Curriculum  Technologies streams (Design & Technologies , and Digital Technologies) to switch off the lights in a model house using a Kookaberry and a preloaded app (D&T) recreate the app from scratch using the KookaBlockly visual code editor (DT) The Boston Museum’s “Engineering  is …

Introduction to digital systems

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This Tutorial describes a digital system and uses the Kookaberry STEM platform to illustrate its fundamental principles What is a digital system? Digital systems receive information from Input devices such as a mouse, motion detector, microphone, or steering wheel, and make decisions (Processing) about what to do with the information depending on the circumstances. The decisions are transmitted to Output …