Saturday, 16 March 2024

Raspberry Pi Server


 Resources are always a problem in teaching, and letting students build and maintain their own servers is only possible using Raspberry Pi computers running Linux. The students learn so much from building and running their own computer systems.

Friday, 15 March 2024

Exothermic Reaction

Adding Magnesium turnings to copper sulfate gave a nice temperature rise recorded on @pascoscientific Capstone. Different groups doing different experiments meant that we could easily share the data.


 

Thursday, 14 March 2024

Magnetic field


 Measuring the changes in magnetic field with distance, using @pascoscientific magnetic field sensor and the smartcard to provide the position information.

Wednesday, 13 March 2024

Lightbox and Graphs


 Comparing two graphs can be difficult. If they are on a computer, then it's simple, but paper graphs need a lightbox so that one can be seen through the other.

Tuesday, 12 March 2024

Particle accelerator


 Building a PingPong ball accelerator with the students from some sticky copper strips and a mixing bowl powered by a Van de Graaf generator. It's not exactly fast, but it does move.

Monday, 11 March 2024

Eye Lens

Modelling the eye lens from @Pascoscientific. Looking at ordinary lenses just does not give an idea of how the eye works, but this lens changes as water is added and removed much in the same way as the eye lens works.


 

Sunday, 10 March 2024

Online teaching


 Online teaching. Using multiple screens, cameras, visualisers controlled by an atem and stream deck to make on line teaching a breeze.

Doppler Rocket

Demonstrating the Doppler effect with the @pascoscientific Doppler Rocket: As the rocket moves away, students can hear the pitch drop (red s...