Control freak for Crumble
Powered by Crumble, Control freak resources are all about engagement, enjoyment and learning at the same time. Students use the Crumble software to write their own code and follow their own creative imagination to see where using the software and their skills will take them.
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Lighthouse
This uses a motor, a sparkle and a marble to imitate a lighthouse. It can be made harder by incorporating LDRs.
Morse code
Very simply, this involves making sparkles flash. The challenge is to work out how long a ‘dot’ and a ‘dash’ are, and to successfully code a message in Morse code.
Nightlight
Using LDRs and sparkles, the student learns how to code a nightlight coming on only once it gets dark. Digital switches can also be incorporated into this.
Pumpkin
Ideal for a Halloween-themed coding lesson! Using sparkles to mirror a candle in a pumpkin – can you make it flicker or only come on once it’s dark?