Newsletter
December 2016 – January 2017
Summer Holiday Workshops
STEMSEL Inventors Club is running special holiday workshops during the summer to help keep
your brain active. Come and try our robotics, 3D printing and soldering workshops! Turn over
for special Sundays…
Wednesdays:
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Wednesday 21 December – Make your LEDfun Electronic Soldering
Learn how circuit boards are put together and even
assemble your own at the soldering workshop. Students
will learn soldering techniques which can be used to
create permanent electronic circuits.
Students can assemble the LEDfun board into one of 8
fun designs including a light chaser, a memory game, an
electronic die, or an alarm system.
Time: 10:00am to 12:30pm
Location: eLabtronics, 51 Byron Place, Adelaide, 5000
Recommended ages: 10 years old and up
Cost: $50 (includes your soldered circuit to take home)
Bring: Snacks, drinks, etc. for breaks
Register: Miro Phone: 0425 868 353 or 8231 5966 Email: [email protected]
Wednesday 28th December – Make Plants Scream for Water
Never forget to water your plants again!
Make a moisture sensor and electronic alarm to take home.
Learn to solder electronic parts on a prototype development
PCB including a microchip. Brush up on those soldering skills
you learned from beginner workshops.
Learn how circuit boards are put together and assemble
your own at this soldering workshop!
Time: 10:00am to 1:00pm
Location: eLabtronics, 51 Byron Place, Adelaide, 5000
Recommended ages: 10 years old and up
Cost: $50 (includes soldered circuit alarm to take home)
Bring: Snacks, drinks, etc. for breaks
Register: Miro Phone: 0425 868 353 or 8231 5966 Email: [email protected]
STEMSEL.com
Wednesday 4th January – Servo Motor Workshop
Servo motors are used in model planes, boats and cars.
Also, they can be used to make awesome robots!
Learn to control servo motors to react to light sensors and
then connect them to other servo motors to make a whole
string of motors!
You get to keep the servo motor to use with your STEMSEL
Controller.
Time: 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Adelaide City Library, 77 Rundle Mall, Adelaide SA 5000
Cost: $50 (take-home STEMSEL Mini included)
$30 (BYO STEMSEL or STEMSEL Mini)
(both costs include the servo motor to take home)
Bring: A Windows laptop if possible, as well as food, drink etc. for recess and lunch
Register: Miro Phone: 0425 868 353 or 8231 5966 Email: [email protected]
Wednesday 11th January – Wind Generator
In partnership with the Adelaide City
Council, this is a special hands-on STEM +
Social Enterprise Learning (SEL) Workshop.
Meet Sparky the animatronic robot head.
Connect yourself into a human circuit. Learn
why Climate Change is causing storms with
as much energy as 10,000 nuclear bombs.
Make clean green energy using wind energy
and program a microchip to measure it.
How much power does your breath have?
Time: 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Adelaide City Library, 77 Rundle Mall, Adelaide SA 5000
Cost: FREE, but space is limited
Bring: Microchip kits and computers are provided
Register: Adelaide City Library
Phone: 8203 7990
STEMSEL.com
Wednesday 18th January – Flashy LED Art
Create your own Aboriginal technology artwork to symbolise
the reconciliation between Aboriginal culture and science using
flashing light emitting diodes (LEDs) and STEMSEL technology.
Paint your picture and mount lots of LEDs that you program to
flash on and off and respond to a light sensor!
Take it home to show your friends. Enter your technology
artwork into the 2017 Royal Adelaide Show Inventors
Competition.
Time: 9:00am to 3:00pm
Location: Braggs Building, University of Adelaide, Adelaide,
5005
Recommended ages: 10 years old and up
Cost: $90 (includes materials/STEMSEL Mini controller/LEDs/etc. to take home)
Bring: A Windows laptop if possible, as well as food and drinks for recess and lunch
Register: Rona Sakko of Bright Sparks Science Club
Phone: 0419 827 723 Email: [email protected]
Wednesday 25th January – Program LASER Diodes Workshop
Learn how to program lasers!
Control them to send special messages to others to
decode from across the room. Can they crack your
code?
Time: 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Adelaide City Library, 77 Rundle Mall,
Adelaide SA 5000
Recommended ages: 10 years old and up
Cost: $50 (take-home STEMSEL Mini included)
$30 (BYO STEMSEL or STEMSEL Mini)
(both costs include a laser diode to take home)
Bring: A Windows laptop if possible, as well as food, drink etc. for recess and lunch
Register: Miro Phone: 0425 868 353 or 8231 5966 Email: [email protected]
STEMSEL.com
Sundays 8th, 15th and 22nd, 29th of January
Make Speedy Robots Jump! (Fun for Beginners)
Send the STEMSEL chips for a spin on a wheeled robot!
Easy and fun graphical programming using a STEMSEL
controller.
Program directions to your robot. Race your robot in a
snail race. Add light sensors to make the robot seek out
light. Steer the robot by waving your hand!
Time: 2:45pm to 4:30pm Location: eLabtronics, 51 Byron Pl, Adelaide SA 5000
Recommended ages: 8 years old and up
Cost: $25 per week, borrow our robot base and controller to use
Bring: A Windows laptop if possible (free software) – otherwise we have spares to lend
Register: Miro Phone: 0425 868 353 or 8231 5966 Email: [email protected]
3D Printing – Tiny Talking Robot Head
Did Sparky have kids?! Design and print your very own
3D printed Tiny Talking Robot Head with watchful eyes
and a chatty mouth. Learn about how servo motors are
used to bring life to your very own robot creations!
The models will be entered into the Royal Adelaide
Show Competitions 2017.
Time: 1:00pm to 2:45pm Location: eLabtronics, 51
Byron Pl, Adelaide SA 5000
Recommended ages: 8 years old and up
Cost: $30 per week over 4 weeks (includes 3D printing, plastic, servo motor)
Bring: A Windows laptop if possible (free software) – otherwise we have spares to lend
Register: Miro Phone: 0425 868 353 or 8231 5966 Email: [email protected]
Invent a Spinning LED Display
Invent a spinning LED Persistence Display with your own
programmable image! Your electronics will become almost
invisible and the LED words and pictures will look like they
are floating in mid-air! Your amazing inventions will be
entered into the Royal Adelaide Show Competitions 2017.
Time: 2:45pm to 5:00pm
Location: eLabtronics, 51 Byron Pl, Adelaide SA 5000
Recommended ages: 10 years old and up who completed Beginners STEMSEL Projects
Cost: $35 per week over 4 weeks includes LEDs, proto board, motors, sensors + STEMSEL chip
Bring: A Windows laptop if possible (free software) – otherwise we have spares to lend
Register: Miro Phone: 0425 868 353 or 8231 5966 Email: [email protected]
STEMSEL.com