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Making a Capacitive Board for Interactive Scratch Games
This project takes advantage of the new Adafruit QTPy board’s 6 capacitive pins to create platform for creating an interactive board that may be connected to Scratch for games and activities or other computer platforms. This is a step by step beginner tutorial and uses the CircuitPython language and library which has a smaller learning…
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Fun Things For Kids to Do During the Pandemic
We are compiling and occasionally updating a running list of resources and ideas for what to do with the kids during the stay at home directives. Have something cool to add? Leave it in the comments below. MakeCode: Created by Microsoft, MakeCode offers kids a block and text based ways to program which may also…
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Covid-19 Notice
June 2020 Update: Sadly, due to the continued COVID outbreak and ongoing social distancing guidelines which will be with us for the foreseeable future, we will no longer be holding in person classes and events. We are hoping to organize and hold some online community events. Updates will be sent through our email list and…
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Scratch 3.0: Not Just for Your Kids Anymore
This January, MIT had released their most recent iteration of Scratch 3.0. For those without young children, Scratch is a hugely successful platform for teaching children about computer science while encouraging creative play and exploration. Projects created can vary from animations to games and much more. The platform is web-based and comes packed full of…
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Mini Games with Bitsy
We’ve been having some one-off holiday camps this September and spend one of the days playing around with creating Bitsy games. Bitsy is an online game development platform created by Adam Le Doux. This platform is easy to learn and involves no coding experience. Campers are able to create stories and arrow navigation based games…
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Camper Interactive Fiction Stories
Check out the weird, wonderful interactive stories designed and written by our very own Zero Day Campers.
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Interactive Fiction
Parser Based IF Choice/Variable Based IF
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We Have a Home!
Zero Day Camp is happy to announce the location of our new store front located at: 820 Washington Avenue (between St. John’s Place and Lincoln Place) Brooklyn, NY 11238 Come on out and celebrate with us! We will be hosting an open house and movie night on Friday, July 21st. Doors open at 6 pm…
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Creating an Automated House with the Microbit
This spring session we tried something a little different and hands on. Campers were on a mission to build their dream home and automate it using the Microbit. The focus was on providing a project based and camper led experience. Working in pairs, basic programming and physical computing concepts were introduced such as creating LED…
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Setting up ComputerCraft in Minecraft – installing Minecraft “mods” for beginners.
I’ve been using the excellent Minecraft “mod” ComputerCraft a bit to teach some programming inside of Minecraft and wanted to make sure that anyone who wanted to set this up at home could do just that. There are a few steps and I hope I’ve gotten them all, but if I’ve missed something and/or you…