See the full schedule for our exciting series of online workshops Monday 22 June @ 2.00 – 3.00 Introductory webinar with Stefan Poslad from the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary, University of London. Stefan will set the scene for the challenge and explain some of the ideas behind Making and the Internet…
Environment Making Challenge
Community Call to Action Come and join us to make a better environment. We are looking for problem-solvers and great ideas for making our world a better place. Design a solution and win a great prize. Learn about Making and what you can use to solve problems around you. With daily sessions over two weeks,…
Submit your EMC challenge
It’s been a terrific fortnight, leaning about Arduinos and micro:bits and how to get inspiration and plan your ideas, and now the time has come to submit your ideas on how to use the Internet of Things to solve the challenges faced by our evironment. Submit your entry, simply email your design, drawing, code, plans…
Environment Maker Challenge: Oli Howson’s second arduino adventure
Many thanks again to everyone who attended Oli Howson’s fascinating second Arduino Adventure today, the sixth session in our SERAS Environment Making Challenge. It was our final technical session, which makes us all a bit sad, but at least we’ve got everybody’s wonderful Challenge ideas to look forward to. As ever, don’t worry if you…
Environment Maker Challenge: Day 5 with David Pride
Thanks so much everyone for tuning in today to David Pride’s brilliant Miocro:bit masterclass – and for completing the first week of our Environment Making Challenge! I know that we at SERAS learned a huge amount in the session today – and I expect that everybody else did too. David really helped reminding us that…
Environment Maker Challenge: Day 4 with Oli Howson
It was brilliant Arduino masterclass today from Oli Howson, the fourth session in our SERAS Environment Making Challenge. Many thanks again for everyone who joined in and for all your great comments in the chat. We all learned loads about how to use Arduinos and really enjoyed tinkering with them on an emulator. Thanks as…
Environment Maker Challenge: Day 3 with Kisha Bradley
Many thanks to everyone who made it for Kisha Bradley’s wonderful introduction to creative thinking and problem solving, the third session in our SERAS Environment Making Challenge. I hope it helped you all come up with good ideas for the Challenge! Don’t worry if you missed Kisha’s webinar – it’s now available on our YouTube…
Environment Maker Challenge: Day 2 with Tanya Fish
Thanks again to everyone for coming along to Tanya Fish’s brilliant interactive webinar on how toprepare for a Make, the second session in our SERAS Environment Making Challenge. It was areally good turnout, with nearly 50 people attending again, so thanks and well done! We all learned so much about the various boards you can…
Environment Making Challenge: Launch!
Thanks so much to everyone for attending the first session of our SERAS Environment Making Challenge. It was a cracking turnout, with nearly 50 people attending, so thanks and well done! We had our problems with a few technical issues at the start, but the session was a great success in the end with a…
SERAS Pitch-In Project announcement
SERAS is working with Research England’s Pitch-In project to identify and address skills gaps around the Internet of Things (IoT). The growth of internet-enabled computing, digital manufacturing and the increasing interconnection via the internet of objects in our offices and homes are set to revolutionise our business and domestic lives and could lead to significant…
