Wiimotes and Plasma Screens

It may not be pretty but this is the modified TEK irpen that we have used for making a plasma screen interactive. The reasoning behind this came from having to put a wiimote in a year one classroom and the projector giving an image that kids would be too short for. So with a slight [...]

The Playstation 3 is for Educational Research Dear…

Yeah Right!

These days you have to keep up with the kids.  Ironically Playstation was the first console to be marketed at 20 somethings with expendable income hence its success and the playstation 3 is no exception with its price tag.  I bit the bullet and the GE money genie bought me a PS3 and Guitar [...]

KKC Network

Often we get asked how our school network is put together so I thought I would share our diagram thanks to lovely charts.

Clasus Challenge IWB pricing

Clasus  is a Portuguese company that sell Interactive Whiteboards that look like Promethean IWBs, act like Promethean IWBs and are Promethean IWBs under a different name (allegedly).  Screenflex (no web site as yet) are the Irish company attempting to sell these  boards for, in their words, “about a grand and a half less than Promethean.”  [...]

Wiimote Software and sync on HP

h2. Select the bluetooth device

click next
h2. Search for devices

here lies the problem the wiimote does not pair so we click skip
h2. Finish

now that it is connected and do be aware that the lights should still be flashing on the wiimote you can go ahead and lauch the wiimote software.
h2. Software running

iMac 17inch hdd install made easy with youtube

So after we upgraded our home iMac we passed our old one on to Natalies parents which after six months required a rebuild as the drive was corrupted. I should have know the death bell was ringing but reformatted and reinstalled instead.
Then as I leave for Australia Nat rings saying it’s died again and [...]

KKC Laptop Programme

Recently had an email which asked some good questions thought I might reply here as well for everyones benefit.
To answer your Questions
What are you using as the laptops? – full size, or netbooks? How many do you have, and what size school?
We are using a fifty/fifty mix of mac/pc all fullsize we have 120 at [...]

Making the TEK irpen for wiiboard

Here is a quick 3x speed video of Mark making an irpen. Feel free to comment and ask questions if you need any further help making your own. Or you can buy one by clicking on the link on this blog. If you need to see it in higher quality follow the link to you [...]

IR Pens

I have finally got a production model of my IR pen and am just waiting for a shipment of the Vishay TSAL6400 IR LED’s from the US.
So far I have been using the IR LED from an Apple remote which works far better than any others I have sourced in NZ.
I have the manufacturing process [...]

Wiimote whiteboard roundup

So we have had our first week of having the wiimote in a class at Katikati College. Next week we deploy to another eight classrooms across the cluster as well as three at Omokoroa No 1 School. So far we have built some of our own pens and brought some from penteractive.us who were very [...]

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