Museum gallery prototypes

Design and technology

Museum gallery artefacts

Push-to-make switches

Offboard components

Input and output design decisions

Museum alarm programming and fault finding

Integrate programmable systems in a product

The Great Exhibition and presenting museum alarms

This unit develops pupils' programming and control knowledge, with a focus on monitoring. Debugging and troubleshooting will be introduced. Pupils will learn how to integrate a BBC Micro:bit in a product and use sensors to program a light display.

Systems and control: sensor alarms

a loop of connected electrcial components

a component that makes electricity using a chemical reaction

controls a circuit by pushing the connection together

an input device that can control circuits through sensing light

connections on the edge of a micro:bit used to add offboard components

an online computer aided design application

components that can be attached to a micro:bit

different parts of a product that are already built into a micro:bit

different parts of a product that can be attached to a micro:bit

a device that measures how quickly something is speeding up or slowing down

testing electrical equipment to check whether it's working safely and correctly

thinking in steps, using what you already know, and coming up with sensible solutions

connections on the edge of the board used to add offboard components

usually made from copper and covered with insulation to prevent electrical shock

actions taken to prevent accidents when working with electricity

the first international exhibition held in London in 1851

Systems and control: sensor alarms

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