Save the Day with Smart Electronics · Extension option
Prototype an educational toy for Lil Vil
Buzzer, neopixel, and touch module — three new parts, one build.
🔀 This is an extension lesson. Your class does Lesson 3 or Lesson 4, not both — check with your teacher which one you are on.
Open the Lesson 4 worksheet
Open Worksheet: Lesson 4 Advanced Inputs and Outputs and put your name on your copy.
Using the Kitronik expansion kit instead? Use this one: Worksheet: Lesson 4 Advanced Inputs and Outputs (Kitronik kit)
Test each module on its own
Get the passive buzzer, the neopixel, and the touch module each working by themselves first.
Debugging three new parts at once is a bad time. Debugging one is quick.
Design and build the prototype
Decide what your toy teaches, then pick which module gives the sound, the light, and the input.
Build it, then write on the worksheet what a kid is supposed to learn from playing with it.
🧒 Design for the person who will use it
Lil Vil is small and does not read instructions. Whatever your toy wants, it has to say with sound, light, or touch.
Hand it to a classmate with no explanation. If they cannot work out what to do in ten seconds, change the toy, not the explanation.
📤 Turn it in
Click Start Assignment at the top right, then upload your finished worksheet or paste the share link to it.
Need help submitting your worksheet? Watch the tutorial below.