What a great ICT lesson we had this week in Year 5.  We recapped on programming a microcontroller called a Crumble.  Then, using all of our skills, we wired up the crumble to a power source, ensuring we didn’t mix up our positives and negatives, attached a micro USB port to the crumble and the computer, and then connected the sparkle to the crumble.  A sparkle is a multi-coloured LED designed to work with the Crumble.  It was only then, after connecting 6 leads correctly, did we have our LEDs lighting up.  There was a lot to think about and problem solving to be done.

Next up was creating a Crumble program.  We set the Sparkle to flash different colours and for different amounts of time.

What a great fun lesson.  I can’t wait for next week when we are going to add a geared motor into the mix!