Day 1 with the kids (6 and 9 year old) at home. Got some supplies. Let’s see what they come up with. #homeschool #StayHome #schoolclosure

Day 2, and they’ve learned how to draw their own basic schematic, build it on a breadboard, and write some code. Stay at home learning is actually not too bad (current circumstances aside).
#homeschool #StayHome #schoolclosure

Day 3: 9 year old has added a Bluetooth module and is switching the LED from a tablet. It’s the hardware equivalent of “hello world”!! Some app dev coming up next with @MITAppInventor.
#homeschooling #SocialDistancing #StayHome

Day 4: First android app done using @MITAppInventor. 6 year old got his app to respond to button clicks to play recorded sounds. 9 year old reading and writing to HW via Bluetooth. Next step to get some sensors and motors set up.

Day 5: 9yo set up proximity sensors and got his Arduino code working. Another building block .
6yo decided that his proxy sensor is going to play a recording of the dog barking when someone gets near his stuff . Still a work in progress.

Day 6: No pic to share today. Just a lot debugging frustration for both kids. Rite of passage for a developer. But they probably learned more from the stuff that’s not working that the things that worked first time.

Day 7 - 9: Kids took a break from coding, and we suddenly discovered a bug staring us in the face about 2 mins after getting back to coding. 6 year old got his alarm system working with sounds of dogs barking through his app.

Day 10: No hardware today, just some app dev with @MITAppInventor. Worked through one of the tutorials and got a ToDo list app going. Pretty cool, they understand lists and indexing. 9yo decided his next step is to have a cloud based app so “mom can assign the tasks”.

Day 11 & 12: now was they’re coming up with their own projects on @scratch and teaching each other.
They created a “dead cat” animation complete with blood splatter. Should I be worried?
@ScratchJr

Day 13: 6yo is obsessed with creating animations with @ScratchJr. Next step to make them interactive.
9yo made an @arduino temp and humidity sensor circuit to write to serial port... learned a bit about how to handle floating point numbers in his code too.

Day 14: 6yo needed a break from coding. I guess cabin fever is starting to become real.
9yo wrote a chat app using @MITAppInventor and cloudDB. Followed the tutorial to start with and then added his own touches like passwords and erase messages.