Digital Technologies

This term, Years 7 and 8 students have been continuing their Digital Technologies courses, this time in smaller blocks over a week. Year 8 students have been learning about the history of the Internet and how networks are constructed. Their final task was to link two microcontrollers together using I2C protocol and have them communicate to each other.

In Year 7, students have been looking at binary operations and binary logic, and their final task was building a circuit which solved the problem of how to turn the light off in your room when you had a cold floor to traverse! The students built a "three-way switch" using an XOR gate logic chip. Next term students in both Year 7 and Year 8 will look at App design and development.

In Year 9/10 Digital Design, students are working on incidental lighting for the major Drama production "The Dream". Some are working with fixed LEDs, some with RGB LEDs and one group is working with individually addressable programmable RGB LEDs.

Mr Anthony Peck

E-Learning Manager