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- 1. THE SATELLITE INVENTORS KIT FOR THE BBC MICRO:BIT INSPIRING THE NEXT GENERATION OF SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS LILIAN KASEM TECHNICAL EVANGELIST Microsoft UK, in collaboration with the space application catapult @liliankasem
- 2. CATAPULT OPEN BBC Micro, 1981
- 4. CATAPULT OPEN Micro:bit Four Editors • Code Kingdom • Block Editor • Touch develop editor • Python Editor www.microbit.co.uk/getting-started
- 6. CATAPULT OPEN The Catapult PocketQube Satellite Kit • A complete satellite in a 5 cm cube • A fully functional, self-contained, remotely operated platform
- 7. CATAPULT OPEN The Micro:bit Satellite Inventors Kit Micro:bit microSD card reader UV/IR/VIS sensor Temperature sensor Camera
- 8. CATAPULT OPEN Curriculum Links – KS3 • Coding • Real world problems and physical systems • Developing creativity • Design and technology • Iterative design and building • Biology • Biological ecosystems • Plant reproduction and the environment • Photosynthetic processes • Photosynthesis and the atmosphere • Adaptation of leaves for photosynthesis • Chemistry • The carbon cycle • Physics • Radiation, convection and conduction • Gravity as a force • Waves • Electricity • Magnetism • Forces • The Sun • The seasons • Geography • Interpreting geographical info
- 9. CATAPULT OPEN Activity Examples Observing Gravity Exploring thermal properties Measuring vegetation with light frequency visualisation (NDVI)
- 10. MAKE STUFF HAPPEN • Mission Control • National IoT Project • Community Advocates
- 11. CATAPULT OPEN Mission control in the classroom Raspberry Pi 3 + Windows IoT • Collect data via Bluetooth • Distribute via webserver to any and all devices • Mission control “portal” • Push data to Azure https://mscorpnews.blob.core.windows.net/ncmedia/2015/11/windows-10-logo.jpg https://windowsitpro.com/site-files/windowsitpro.com/files/uploads/2015/10/azure.png http://admin.utep.edu/Portals/1804/Images/room336.JPG http://www.techworks-consulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/WiFiAccessPointLogo.jpg https://lh4.ggpht.com/Pkvgp3OKBG5JZW7Nm2o-3cqINadGj0KgB25W4ReP19h2rfSwbQ34TthfD7pjhr6o_w=w170 https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/b8/33/5f/b8335f7a0be0c4169a4942f618734848.jpg https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0176/3274/products/100437_1024x1024.jpg?v=1456812374
- 12. MISSION CONTROL APP MISSION CONTROL TOP EXPERIMENTS SPACE ACTIVITIES micro:bit live Your activities Space Tracker Light Compass Temperature Accel Experiment Wizard Real Time Telemetry RSS Feed of Space Activity
- 13. CATAPULT OPEN Space science in the classroom Landsat Micro:bit kit data http://www.xtec.cat/~fromeu/english/britishisles/images/britain.gif
- 14. CATAPULT OPEN Get involved Advocates who can demo the kits at schools A community of platform and app developers Contact us if you’re interested: buildubo@sa.catapult.org.uk
- 15. CATAPULT OPEN Get involved AzureCraft June 4th @ Microsoft Reading (give me your details) Workshop in London: aka.ms/nanosat17may Getting involved as advocates or developers: buildubo@sa.catapult.org.uk
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- Abstract: Building the skills the UK needs for the future requires inspiring the young today! The Satellite Inventors Kit for the BBC micro:bit enables budding scientists and engineers to explore the world around them through space related experiments. The Mission Control app allows experimenters to set up and control experiments on the Satellite Inventors Kit from their smartphone. Come and see the Satellite Inventors Kit in action in this demo filled session and learn how you can support your school’s participation in our attempt to deliver the largest Schools Internet of Things activity in the UK. Intro: The space applications catapult guys have a mission to increase the UK space industry to £40 billion by 2030. By 2030, the developers, engineers, scientists they need are in school now. We need to engage those school children so they follow a STEM education
- Has anyone here heard of the BBC micro? In 1982 the BBC launched the BBC Micro with the intention of inspiring children to get into programming. Today, the BBC is revisiting this mission and launching the BBC Microbit.
- The BBC Microbit is a tiny computer that will be given to every year 7 student in the country to encourage them to get into programming. It’s a actually pretty powerful, not as powerful as a your smart phone, but it has more computing power than the international space station – crazy right? It has Bluetooth, a compass, an accelerometer, pins with a Ground and Voltage and buttons you can program. It has a 5x5 LED grid that can also be programmed – not bad for such a small device.
- There are also several ways you can program it – we’ve built an editor called TouchDevelop that allows beginners to easily get started which little to no programming knowledge – it’s a very simple touch based editor that lets you press on commands to add to your program. For more advance students, there’s JavaScript and Python editors available for people to improve their programming skills and start building more complex programs.
- Device from top left going clockwise: Clock demo (on https://www.microbit.co.uk/td/clock ) integrates large LCD display, Real Time Clock with battery backup, alarm buzzer and temperature. Proto-type Micro:Bit Satellilte Inventors Kit – to views. Incorporates camera, atmospheric pressure (for weather and altitude), temperature in 6cm cube. Available next year with science experiment activities. An actual nano-satellite – we are exploring putting a Micro:Bit Satellite into space next year A basic breadboard circuit to drive an ADAFruit BMP180 breakout board via I2C from the Micro:Bit. I2C is one of several electronic connection standards Micro:Bit supports to integrate with other devices.
- First prototype developed by two interns in 6 weeks Education Training Experiment Instrument Mission design The guys at Catapult came up with this mini satellite here that uses a Microbit and a custom made board that bring some addition features to the Microbit. The challenge was to build a smaller satellite than the one now commonly used (10cm cube) and this is what they came up with. An actual nano-satellite – we are exploring putting a Micro:Bit Satellite into space next year
- This is what the latest prototype looks like for the satellite kit. It has an SD card reader as the Microbit doesn’t have storage. It has a temperature sensor and a UV IR and Visible sensor and a camera that has an IR sensor
- And the hope is that we can provide this kit to schools all over the country with lesson plans for these subjects And we really want to demonstrate a link between experiments and real space applications. So each activity / lesson plan we develop will demo a link to space in some way
- And we’ve already put together some projects, like calculating gravity by adding your Microbit at the end of a pendulum. Learning about materials and thermal properties through covering up the Microbit with different materials and measuring the temperature afterwards. And a project to observe vegetation using the camera. Gravity: Calculate gravity using a pendulum and the SIK. Simulate gravity on other planets and observe differences Thermal properties: Learn which materials will help protect a space craft Measuring vegetation Satellites are observing the vegetation on earth Create your own vegetation health monitor using advanced photo transformation techniques measure photosynthetic activity NDVI = Normalised difference vegetation index (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/MeasuringVegetation/
- How are we going to make this happen? We’ve got some projects and ways for student to learn alone through our mission control app and a bigger project where the whole classroom will be involved.
- On a bigger scale, we want to enable a class activity by turning the classroom into a mission control room. A raspberry pi will be used as some sort of hub that all of the students microbits will connect to via Bluetooth. The Pi will be connected to the schools network and students will all be able to access the lessons and activities on the mission control portal on the school computers allowing them to collect, view and visualise all of the data they have all collected.
- And on a smaller scale, we are working on a mission control app that gives students experiments an activity to do in their own time. It will have an experiment wizard they can use and which will guide them through their experiments as well as be able to see the Microbit sensor data in real time Presents experiments Controls experiment execution Gathers experiment data Field gateway to National IoT Hub Space Activity Tracker Telemetry client Science activity with curriculum context Experiment Wizard Real-time Micro:bit sensor data Space application context Real world space application example
- And on a massive scale, we would love to get at least one school in each county involved with our IoT experiment, and even adults and hobbiests too. We’ll like to have everyone set up their Microbit to collect image data and allow people to view data from across the country and compare the data collected from the microbits on the ground to the data acquired from the satellite Allows students to view data from across the country Compare with satellite-sourced data Crowd-sourced data demonstrates how much data a satellite can acquire Comparison of data sets demonstrates how instruments work Using Micro:bits and satellite inventor’s kits in the classroom Minimum of one per county Collect an image Process the image data Upload the data point to the cloud Geotag data to locate the pixel Play back to demonstrate the change in season
- And finally, the reason I’m really here talking to all of you about this! We need you! We’re looking for advocates to demo this to their local schools, their children's schools and get them involved in this fun project. And if anyone here is a developer, we need your help with the platform and app development – this is all open source and we need more developers. So if you’re interested in getting involved in any way, drop an email to the catapult guys at this address and let them know. This is all about helping us build up the next generation of STEM
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