The theme of GadgetHeads is “Robots the Inside Story”. You don’t actually make robots (we do that in CodeHeads) but you’ll learn about motors, circuits, and batteries – key components of robots- by making cool projects like a spinny motor, a doorbell for your room, or a cool copper flashlight. You’ll learn to use a heat gun and a soldering iron to make circuits and an electronic Simon Says game. This is Gadget Lab’s core workshop and every activity is designed to build skills, inspire curiosity and instill a joy in making things yourself.
Tech Resume Skills: Circuit building, safe care and use of a soldering iron and heat gun, through-hole soldering, wire splicing, basic electron theory, the structure of LEDs, and transistors.
Note this class starts one week later than other semester classes. The first class is 29 Sept.
Instructor: Karen Giacopuzzi, Gadget Lab
Minimum Student Enrollment: 6
Course Length: 50 min class per week / 11 weeks/ semester
Cost: $159 + $70 supply fee = $229 per semester
