Open Science Education

Introduction

Teaching science in secondary school or high school often relies on proprietary lab equipment and related curriculum resources. This is both expensive and limiting.

What if we could develop our own equipment and curriculum?

This page demonstrates how flexible hardware and freely available programming tools can help provide open science education.

Development Platforms

• Arduino UNO
• BBC micro::bit
• Raspberry Pi 3
• Raspberry Pi Zero W

Software Development

Basic

• Arduino IDE (C/C++)
• Mu editor (MicroPython, CircuitPython, Python 3)

Advanced

• JupyterLab (Python 3)
• Atom editor (C/C++, Python 3)
• Visual Studio Code editor (C/C++, Python 3)

Online

• Arduino Create

Projects

Current

• AmbientCO2: Arduino library for CozIR Ambient CO2 sensor
• PythonCO2 : Python module for CozIR Ambient CO2 sensor

Upcoming

• Colorimeter: Arduino library for measuring absorbance

About mjackdk

Chemical engineer, developer and teacher, in no particular order