Show HN: A kit to teach physics and programming through wearable electronic art

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6 years ago

With a group of other volunteers we are making a wearable artsy electronic device with which to teach physics and programming. The (nonprofit) kickstarter was just funded. I would love share and hear feedback on the teaching resources we are preparing. They are still in a very draft state, but here are some examples:

- Intro materials that teach about color and vision at https://spinwearables.com/sight/

- Intermediate materials about making your own stepcounter at https://spinwearables.com/stepcounter/

- A very advanced (college level) lesson on using neural networks for gesture recognition at https://spinwearables.com/rnn/

We are particularly proud that we made a widget inside of the webpage that can be used to practice coding before trying to upload the code to the wearable device: https://spinwearables.com/transpile/

There is much polishing and extending to be done for these lessons, but we are excited about the opportunity to teach how knowledge of science gives you the skills to make wonderful beautiful things. Any content suggestions or demos that you would have loved to see as a student would be appreciated.

[k]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spinwheel/the-spinwheel-the-colorful-wearable-programming-kit?ref=7u9oi6 [main page]: https://spinwearables.com/