Have you every purchased an electronics kit for yourself or a child, but never found the time to play with it to learn what all the little parts do? Now is your chance! My kids and I have several such kits. One is a beginner's kit with parts that snap together. Another is a more advanced "breadboard" with rows of holes for electronics parts to poke into. And we also have a couple of Arduino microcontrollers, which can run programs downloaded from a computer. One of the Arduino boards controls the Family Math blimp that we flew at the recent Light in Winter Hall of Wonders (see http://familymath.org/node/250).
This Sunday I'll bring my electronics kits to the Math Club, you can bring yours if you have some, we'll share what we know about electronics, we'll make stuff, and we'll fly the blimp!
-Larry
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The Family Math Club meets most Sundays from 2pm to 3:30pm on the third floor of Williams Hall on the Ithaca College Campus. Meetings are free and open to everyone. Both kids and adults report enjoying the club. To get to the club travel to South Hill on 96B. Turn into the Ithaca College main entrance. Go three fourths around the circle and then along a straight stretch. Take the first right (a sign here says "admissions"). Williams Hall is the second building on your left. There is usually parking nearby. Enter either the front or the back and take either the stairs or the elevator to the third floor.