Author Archives: Llewelyn Fernandes

I’ve recently started teaching programming to students at the London College of Communication (part of the University of the Arts in London). One of the benefits of working with them is that they have some great making facilities and they … Continue reading →

We’ve recently kicked off our CoderDojo sessions at the University of West London in Ealing.  For those of you who don’t know about CoderDojo, it’s an amazing initiative started in 2011 in Ireland but now operating in over 70 countries … Continue reading →

Back in October 2017 Kian came along to one of our first robotics courses (see post More Robots – Records Smashed!!).  In September he came back for a one-to-one tuition session ahead of starting his degree in robotics at Sheffield … Continue reading →

The school summer holidays were drawn to a close by two groups of friends at our robotics workshops. In these workshops we used the micro:bit to build the robot.  One of the great things about the micro:bit is the inclusion … Continue reading →

In this week’s Introduction to Robotics courses, we had quite a mix of students, coming from engineering and architecture backgrounds, as well as the usual mix of GCSE and A-Level students.  This made for some innovate designs (particularly from the … Continue reading →

Today we completed our first ever Introduction to Electronics and Programming course.  Using Raspberry Pi computers programmed using Python, over just 2 days students built: A digital-to-analogue “one-hand-mulitple-LEDs” clock using a stepper motor to control the hand. A 3-way parent … Continue reading →

Six young students aged 11 to 15 came for a week of robot-building.  Here are a couple of videos.

A royal wedding and FA cup final were not enough to put off our latest roboteers.  Thanushree, Nicola, Xavier and Vivienne crafted some curvy masterpieces, adding lights and gold paint to show off enough bling to rival Miss Markle’s jewellery.  … Continue reading →

Saturday saw a trip down to Richmond Library for a robotic workshop, which I ran with Avye.  The hot weather did not stop a room full of kids turning up to build and program their Raspberry Pi robots. Take a … Continue reading →

I had a great day out at the CoderDojo Coolest Projects event in London this weekend.  The event showcased the amazing, crazy, weird and wonderful projects created by attendees of the various CoderDojo coding clubs in the UK.  Best of … Continue reading →