Hi and welcome to today's unplugged activity for British Science Week.
Now,
as you've been hearing,
we've been talking about Smart Cities today.
And the idea of that is,
how do you understand an environment like a city
better, by plugging in sensors and connecting them up, so that data can be pulled out from those senses?
And you can understand that data and manage the place better.
And sometimes that takes the form of security.
So we're going to focus on the idea of a smart museum.
So if you think about a museum,
it tends to have very valuable things,
and I need to be kept a good temperature.
They need to be kept very,
very secure and so
we're gonna look at how,
using things like dominoes and books,
you could actually create your own smart system at home.
Now that's our unplugged activity,
which you can definitely have to go at
and it's a lot of fun.
Afterwards, we've got our plugged in activities you can have a go at.
Using things like Node Red to create a dashboard for your smart museum monitor.
But also using things like a Micro:Bit or a Micro:Bit emulator
to create some smart systems of your own.
So download our activity pack,
have a go at the unplanned activity and see how you get on.
If you follow the instructions in our activity pack,
you could find out how to make your own smart museum alert system at home,
using materials such as books or even dominoes.
Gather some books.
So the more you have,
the larger you have,
the better your domino chain will be. Place the first domino block in place.
This should be near enough to the door you're protecting so that when it opens,
it will knock over this domino.
Place your other domino materials one after another,
carefully making sure that they're close enough to push each other over when they fall.
When you get your final domino block,
decide on what you're going to use your noise that will be loud enough to alert you to something intruded.
If you're using a balloon and a pin use and blue tack or tape to stick the non pointy end of the pin to the
back of the final domino piece.
Blow up the balloon and place it in position where it will be popable by pin.
You may need to secure the balloon perhaps with more blue tack or with tape,
Wait for someone to enter your room.
And watch
your domino alarm systems set off. BANG! So, now that you created your own
smart museum alarm system using things you found at home,
how about having a go are plugged in activities?
If you download the activity pack for today,
you'll find this and plugged in activities around things like creating a flashimg beacon.
How you could use a Micro:Bit or a Micro:Bit emulator to create a digital alarm and also
there are some links in there that you can actually find out a bit more about IoT and smart homes in general.
So up on our Adastral Park website,
there are links around what is a smart home
and why might that be something really interesting to explore?
So check out the links and activity pack and we'll see you for tomorrow's activities for British Science Week.