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Manufacturing Week Melbourne 10-13 May

TEAV 13-14 May 2005, Northcote High School, Melbourne

Technology and Enterprise Conference, Perth, Western Australia, May 2005

Queensland Site visits - June 2005

Launch of new training lab - Griffith Uni Queensland Aug 2005

Picaxe course - Melbourne, August 2005

PICAXE Microcontroller Course

Location: Technology Centre, DeLaSalle College , Malvern

Mission:

Introduce to teachers the microcontroller device, its programming, its applications and expansion options, assistance with teaching strategies and assessment.

Lesson plans and teacher notes will be supplied to start the teachers in this important area

Course will be conducted by two teachers and a curriculum/electronics designer with the aim of developing teacher skills in teaching microcontrollers and their applications.

Demonstration and teaching boards will be manufactured during the course of the course and these will be given to teachers.

Day 1

Introduction to electronic devices

Introduction to electronic applications and the idea of a program or sequential processes

Logic, representation of numbers

Program planning

Introduction to BASIC and flowchart concepts

What is a microcontroller and introduction to the PICAXE family

Hands on – Using the tutorial board - outputs

Hands on – Using the tutorial board inputs

Hand on – Using the debug statement

Hands on – Documentation and assessment ideas

Hands on -Serial output

Day 2

Hands on – reading and understanding circuit schematics and drawing your own Using PCB Wizard

Guide to designing your own boards – example based on designing your own roving line following buggy – lesson plans supplied

Hands on – Expansion of control inputs and outputs with I2C, serial based commands

Hands on – expansion to read ultrasonic distance, compass, led arrays

Discussion of lesson plans and learning outcomes

Starting off students – Hardware discussion on tutorial boards, cyberpet, alarm, dice kits

Hands on- Designing your own circuits with PCB Wizard

Hands on – Designing with PCB Design and Make

Hands on - Make your own circuits with Roland mills by engraving,

Examples of student work

Teachers will use the following resources

Picaxe 18 Tutorial starter pack – This starter pack remains with the teacher

Picaxe 08M chip – This remains with the teacher

Cyperbet, Dice or Alarm project board – this will be assembled and tested by the teachers

Self designed PICAXE -08M with expansion.

Special edition of PCB Design and Make that enables the teacher to design boards and send them to Intellecta for manufacture.

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