[Microbit-Python] Microbit in STEM

Tue May 31 09:19:29 EDT 2016

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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Today's Topics:

   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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Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 12:08:20 +0100
From: "Rob Wilson" <rob at rwilson.org.uk>
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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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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

David.
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Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 14:09:06 +0100
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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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