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Sep 22, 2025·2 min read·Arduino

Pseudoservice and the Shift Toward Real Impact

For years, my Design for Social Good class has focused on building assistive technology devices, specifically computer switches for people with disabilities such as quadriplegia, cerebral palsy, and..

Mar 13, 2024·1 min read·Arduino

Simulating Parkinson's: Using Electronics to Build Empathy

​This lab activity takes students on a unique journey through the world of neuroscience and engineering to explore the complex nature of Parkinson's Disease. Students will simulate the motor...

Jan 9, 2024·2 min read·AI

Empowering the Visually Impaired: Innovations with Arduino Uno in Assistive Technology

My high school students are creating assistive devices for visually impaired individuals using the Arduino Uno platform. This project focuses on developing innovative digital mobility aids, utilizing.

Jan 17, 2022·1 min read·Arduino

Quadriplegic Controller Project: Engineering for Social Good

Using arduino leonardo to create assistive technology.

Mar 23, 2021·1 min read·Arduino

Assistive Technology Engineering Design Cycle

Using the 'shelf' feature in Padlet to track the Engineering Design Cycle process.

Feb 16, 2019·2 min read·Arduino

5E Lesson Example: Cellular Respiration w/Crosscutting NGSS Integration.

CYCLES OF LEARNING

Feb 4, 2019·3 min read·Arduino

What is Robotics? A Curricular Challenge

What is Robotics? A Curricular Challenge - This is the third year that I am teaching a course titled 'Introduction to Robotics'. Click here to read more.

Oct 1, 2018·1 min read·Arduino

5 Ways to Embed Coding & Electronics into Your Science Curriculum

If you are like me as a science teacher, you simultaneously live the acronym 'STEM' and are exhausted by its overuse in nearly every blog, set of state standards

Jul 31, 2018·1 min read·Arduino

Arduino Camp Day 2: Microbit Inventions

Campers spent day 2 using the  Microbit  to create their own inventions they will showcase on Friday. Images of today's inventions are shown. Examples include, but are not limited to, 'Magic 8...

Jul 30, 2018·1 min read·Arduino

Arduino Camp Day 1: The Microbit

Campers spent day 1 using the Microbit to learn the basics of interfacing physical hardware with coding. Campers worked through a series of modules, leading to their own invention that they will...