We provide quality STEM educational workshops for people of all ages and backgrounds to learn and experience robotics using the Arduino platform.
Techspace Learning is a registered not-for-profit organisation focussing on delivering opportunities for people to engage in STEM related activities in an informal, hands-on, self paced environment.
To help achieve this, we run workshops and various other activities around the Adelaide region to show people they can take control of technology and build their own gadgets and robots.
We are currently partnering with many schools, libraries and other organisations around Adelaide to deliver these activities.
We provide training for teachers and other professionals in the basics of Arduino programming, enabling them to support their students in the classroom. The training is hands-on and practical with a focus on understanding the basic principles. The sessions are flexible and can be tailored to suit individual situations.
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We can customise a display using a range of gadgets and machines that we have constructed over time demonstrating the flexibility of the Arduino microprocessor, and how individuals can use their creativity to build their own devices.
What Makes Us Different
Our Kits
Most Arduino kits come as a packet of components, a bunch of wires and a “breadboard”. Putting a project together becomes a nightmare of tangled wires and confusing problems when it does not work. In this case it’s hard to tell whether the problem is in the electronic wiring or in the programming, leading to all sorts of frustration.
Our kits are designed to allow the learner to focus on learning programming, not on learning electronics, which can be learnt later. All of the components in our kits are pre-wired to a small extent and have standard “servo” type plugs on them to allow flexibility in building projects, but without the confusion of basic electronics to worry about.
Techspace Learning kits have evolved slowly over time, and are put together “in-house” using components that have been specially modified by us to make using the Arduino more accessible.
Our Sessions
In the Techspace Learning workshops, participants are not just “playing” with technology that someone else has put together, they are learning how the technology works, and about some of the nitty gritty details of digital technology.
Techspace Learning recognises the advantages that a small group of people learning together has as an educational environment. While everyone is working individually, the ability to bounce questions and suggestions off others is useful. Even if individuals are not keen on interacting, there is something encouraging about being in an environment with others who are interested in the same things as you.
This is why Techspace Learning runs small group sessions.
Our Purpose
Many businesses in this field are concerned with making money. Techspace Learning is a registered “Not for Profit” organisation whose main focus is to provide opportunities for people to engage with technology in an informal setting.
We do not rely on grants or other funding to operate. All of the generated income goes to buying equipment, paying our trainers and covering the costs of running the organisation. Techspace Learning does acknowledge the help and support of many volunteers and organisations who donate time, knowledge, funds and space to help us achieve our aims.
What is Arduino?
