About a month ago Bob LeSuer shared with the community a wonderful project about
Building a (rudimentary) spectrometer with Wolfram/Raspberry Pi.It brought back to my mind great memories of science experiments back at school, many years ago, when none of the technology available today was around.
With the current cost of a Raspberry pi (about 25-35 USD), free Mathematica for the Pi, and sensors galore for less than 10USD, it is very affordable for our high school kids, PTAs and volunteers to explore the fantastic world of science and experimentation.
Kids are taught about formulas, and do exercises on paper, but what about checking out if what they are taught is true? Nullius in Verba!
What about setting up a list of potential projects that would be easy and cheap for our kids to build, run and hopefully get them excited about Science and Technology? Maybe we can post potential projects as answers in this post.
For our friends at WRI, would there be a possibility to have a repository for them at
http://education.wolfram.com/?