Tools for Teaching Renewable Energy

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Tools for Teaching Renewable Energy

As you are well aware, renewable energy is gaining more and more attention as we look for ways to conserve natural resources and provide reliable power sources. Renewable energy sources include solar, geothermal, biomass, wind, and hydropower. With the increasing importance of this topic, how do we teach it to our students and get them excited about it? For starters, … Read More

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STEM Success Starts with fischertechnik Education

kristielAll Topics, fischertechnik, STEM Education

STEM Success Starts with fischertechnik Education

For nearly fifty years, schools around the world have been using fischertechnik for teaching technology and how things work. fischertechnik offers an innovative construction system built around a unique building block that allows attachment on all six sides. In fact, they happen to be a pioneer in letting students build and program their own robot models. The fischertechnik Education line offers sets designed to explain STEM-related … Read More

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How To Build a Solar Tracker

kristielAll Topics, fischertechnik, NI | National Instruments

For this post, Studica’s Co-op student utilized all the skills they have acquired the past few weeks with products such as the National Instruments myDAQ and fischertechnik models. They built and programmed a solar tracker using the fischertechnik Oeco Tech Renewable Energy kit as well as various spare parts as well as National Instruments LabVIEW with the myDAQ and a … Read More

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Controlling Stepper Motors with NI myDAQ

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This month at Studica in Canada we are happy to have the help of two COOP students from Rick Hansen Secondary School in Mississauga. These two students will be tackling projects using National Instruments products, Fischertechnik, and many of our other exciting tools. They will be exploring Automation, Control mechanism, and Renewable Energy in the next few weeks. Watch out … Read More

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National Instruments Hardware and Software in Ontario’s Energy SHSM

std-adminAll Topics, Competitions & Contests, fischertechnik, NI | National Instruments

I was able to use hardware from the Fischertechnik Oeco Tech Renewable Energies Kit to construct the Solar Array, complete with DC Motor. The solar tracker is a part of this kit, and comes with graphical instructions for assembly and wiring. With this, I was able to add two Light Sensors and design a simple system for control using LabVIEW.

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