[Microbit-Python] Microbit in STEM

Wed Jun 1 10:30:01 EDT 2016

Thanks Dave,

I've bookmarked the page, will register and see how I can contribute. Looks
like a suitable place for back-end teams, with the Stack Exchange site
servicing the users and hobbyists - no doubt many will contribute to both.

For what it's worth, I added a comment to a thread on The Register about
the preorder announcement, encouraging people to head over to Area 51 at
Stack Exchange and help push things along.

On 31 May 2016 at 14:19, Dave Gibbs <D.Gibbs at stem.org.uk> wrote:

> I'd be happy to host something in the National STEM Learning Centre online
> groups. We have micro:bit threads running in a couple:
>
> https://www.stem.org.uk/community/groups/37459/physical-computing-and-robotics
> would be the ideal place.
>
> Regards,
> Dave
>
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>    1.  Microbit in STEM (Rob Wilson)
>    2. Re: Microbit in STEM (Nigel Kendrick)
>    3. Re: Microbit in STEM (David Whale)
>    4. Re: Microbit in STEM (Nicholas H.Tollervey)
>    5. Re: Microbit in STEM (Loop Space)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 12:08:20 +0100
> From: "Rob Wilson" <rob at rwilson.org.uk>
> To: microbit at python.org
> Subject: [Microbit-Python]  Microbit in STEM
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> Hi Nigel
> I like the idea of ?sharing knowledge etc?. Maybe a STEM microbit wiki or
> something?
>
> I like the spectrum analyser! I?ve had a vague idea to write a singing
> coach (analyse voice pitch and display difference to played tone) which
> would need a Fourier Transform like that. Not done anything about it yet ?.
>
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > I am a STEM ambassador with micro:bit too. I'm hoping that the
> > ambassador community can team up to share knowledge etc. but at the
> > moment things are a bit fragmented. I have a few things in the
> > pipeline - there's a few pics below and a video...
> >
> > https://imgur.com/a/Rn6Cr
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&persist_app=1&v=SE4Bb1NHyU4
> >
> > Nigel Kendrick
> > aka Linker3000
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 13:09:56 +0100
> From: Nigel Kendrick <nigel.kendrick at gmail.com>
> To: For Pythonic MicroBit related discussions <microbit at python.org>
> Subject: Re: [Microbit-Python] Microbit in STEM
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> Hi Rob,
>
> We'd just need a home for the wiki - do you have any good connections at
> STEM HQ that could help make it official, as opposed to just setting up a
> site somewhere? My contacts are all in the regional office and they seem to
> struggle to get traction back up the chain for anything. I have also
> considered 'partnering' with the BBC for a knowledge sharing section within
> their micro:bit site, but I am making no headway there.
>
> Also, I am a new Ambassador so I haven't made many regional or national
> contacts yet - I'd love to find out 'where the action is' with regards to
> other STEM ambassadors working in IT/electronics.
>
> Basic FFT on the micro:bit would be doable (a la Arduino etc.), but my
> configuration samples the audio in 5 fixed frequency bands on a external
> chip and sends a representative analogue voltage for each band to the
> micro:bit. The end-game is to have a board with the spectrum analyser chip,
> an electret mic with amplifier, a sound triggered logic signal and a class
> D bridge amp (it's quite loud, considering it's runnign from 3V!) all
> powered from the micro:bit.
>
> All the best
>
> --Nigel Kendrick
>
> On 31 May 2016 at 12:08, Rob Wilson <rob at rwilson.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > Hi Nigel
> > I like the idea of ?sharing knowledge etc?. Maybe a STEM microbit wiki
> > or something?
> >
> > I like the spectrum analyser! I?ve had a vague idea to write a singing
> > coach (analyse voice pitch and display difference to played tone)
> > which would need a Fourier Transform like that. Not done anything about
> it yet ?.
> >
> > Hi Rob,
> >>
> >> I am a STEM ambassador with micro:bit too. I'm hoping that the
> >> ambassador community can team up to share knowledge etc. but at the
> >> moment things are a bit fragmented. I have a few things in the
> >> pipeline - there's a few pics below and a video...
> >>
> >> https://imgur.com/a/Rn6Cr
> >>
> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&persist_app=1&v=SE4Bb1NHyU4
> >>
> >> Nigel Kendrick
> >> aka Linker3000
> >>
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> Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 13:25:32 +0100
> From: David Whale <david at thinkingbinaries.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Microbit-Python] Microbit in STEM
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> Rob/Nigel,
>
> There is a wiki already set up by a STEM ambassador, but it needs some
> energy behind it:
>
> microbit.wiki
>
> Also, we're all trying to get enough energy behind this Stack Overflow
> site, to build a self sustaining community, please join in! Only 10 more
> questions above a score of 10 and we can move to the next stage. There must
> be more than 10 people on this mailing list that haven't registered yet,
> that could do, and upvote a few questions (and also raise some Python
> questions for consideration too)
>
> http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/96237/microbit
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> David.
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> Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 14:09:06 +0100
> From: "Nicholas H.Tollervey" <ntoll at ntoll.org>
> To: microbit at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Microbit-Python] Microbit in STEM
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> Hello from Portland (I'm at PyCon in the US at the moment).
>
> I hope to be able to have some good news in the coming weeks about Python
> Software Foundation support for web based resources and community
> development around not just the micro:bit, but Pythonic education in
> general.
>
> Yours hopefully,
>
> N.
>
> On 31/05/16 13:25, David Whale wrote:
> > Rob/Nigel,
> >
> > There is a wiki already set up by a STEM ambassador, but it needs some
> > energy behind it:
> >
> > microbit.wiki
> >
> > Also, we're all trying to get enough energy behind this Stack Overflow
> > site, to build a self sustaining community, please join in! Only 10
> > more questions above a score of 10 and we can move to the next stage.
> > There must be more than 10 people on this mailing list that haven't
> > registered yet, that could do, and upvote a few questions (and also
> > raise some Python questions for consideration too)
> >
> > http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/96237/microbit
> >
> > David.
> >
> >
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> Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 14:12:45 +0100
> From: Loop Space <loopspace at mathforge.org>
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> RE the SE site, note that it's better to vote strategically in this
> stage.  The proposal needs questions with 10 or more votes, so if a
> question already has 10 or more votes then it is a somewhat wasted vote to
> vote on it given that people have limited number of votes at this point.
>
> Andrew
>
> On 31/05/2016 13:25, David Whale wrote:
> > Rob/Nigel,
> >
> > There is a wiki already set up by a STEM ambassador, but it needs some
> > energy behind it:
> >
> > microbit.wiki
> >
> > Also, we're all trying to get enough energy behind this Stack Overflow
> > site, to build a self sustaining community, please join in! Only 10
> > more questions above a score of 10 and we can move to the next stage.
> > There must be more than 10 people on this mailing list that haven't
> > registered yet, that could do, and upvote a few questions (and also
> > raise some Python questions for consideration too)
> >
> > http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/96237/microbit
> >
> > David.
> >
> >
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