Low-Budget Electronics Projects For High School?

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @09:51AM from the does-school-policy-rule-out-ieds? dept.

SciGuy writes "I am a physics teacher for 9th graders. I really want to teach them modern electronics (something beyond the light bulb and battery). My hope is for a project that: 1) Is fun 2) Teaches about circuits that are relevant to their life. 3) Doesn't rely too heavily on a black box microcontroller. Individual components would probably be better. (I realize that #2 and #3 are probably contradictory. They will already be programming in my class but I want them to understand the circuitry behind modern tech.) 4) It must be as cheap as possible. Yay, public school. Unless some of the parts can be scrounged or found at home, I would probably want to keep the project around $5." What would you build?

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I have hundreds of ideas by Hognoxious · 2009-07-15 10:30 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Since (along with 99% of the world's population) I can't covert "9th graders" to meaningful SI units, I'll keep my suggestions to myself and you can whistle Dixie for all I fucking care.

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Re:Good Luck by Sparr0 · 2009-07-15 11:51 · Score: 0, Offtopic

What does this have to do with my post?