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Whats New Page
Any significant changes will be posted on this page... Until the site is updated again...
11th October 2007
I have changed the www.evildetentions.co.uk site to reflect higher costs in processing and posting sets of cards. there is now a minimum order of 6 sets, but you can also order evil detentions designs as promotional handout business cards and postcards.
I am developing a set of 'future car' files for a client in Sketchup that enable you to build a bare chassis from base units, seats and wheels placed in the Sketchup Warehouse. just search in google for 'top valley future car' for details. ANYONE with sketchup can open and edit these files.
Here is an example of short avi films of a chassis and also of a sports car built using this method
2.3MB AVI
1.6MB AVI
5th October 2007
Well, here's the big update I promised. Since going full time as a consultant, i wanted to retain the access you all have to these resources but have a stronger front image for my consultancy work. If you wish to link directly to the resources, i suggest you link to this 'whats new' page from now on as it will stay the quickest way to access the site for pupils in school. No resources will be removed but future updates may include 'paid for' materials as they are added. I am working with a company to offer a sketchup training CD stuffed full of sample files and e-learning films in the next 2 months.
This website has never made any money directly and the vast majority of it was done at home, in the evening and weekends. It is amazing how quickly it all build up if you record it on a web site.
To date there are:
23 wmv e-learning films
52 Flash e-learning films
11 Skwetchup models
34 Publisher worksheets
6 circuit wizard
project workbooks
1055 photos and graphic images
All contained in a total of 796 web pages including the mini web sites I have written
22nd July 2007
have been preparing a big update for this site that is not quite ready, but found a good list of open source (Utterly free and legal) software and have added it to the Free Software page as a text list only. Particulary interested in Scribus and will be adding specific details about it and a few of the listed programs over my summer break!
12th June 2007
I have set-up a Google Online Calendar so Clients can track when I am free.
Click the button below to go there
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/calendar/render?cid=ajbooker%40yahoo.com"><img src="http://www.google.com/calendar/images/ext/gc_button1_en-GB.gif" border=0></a>
Also, The Blog has been updated with a new way to join items using super magnets. I saw a pupil push the magnets into the end of a connector block and realised it could mean a set of easily handled parts constucted with little effort. See the blog for details and pictures
I have just written a 14 part guide to using Skecthup for absolute begineers with 15 e-learnign films. I am exploring uploading this to youtube but I need to do some technical tests to make sure the resolution and audio work correctly. I cannot host them here as they would cost me thousands in bandwidth charges! If you are an academic institution and would like to host them, email me please.
1st June 2007
I have started a blog to record the daily work I do in some detail. This website is the main place for resources and general info, but an insight into my work can be gained from the Blog. Click the icon below to go there...
20th May 2007
Finally I have placed some up to date information about my Consultancy work. No examples yet... but they are coming!
The new section gives you some basic information about myself and what i have done and am presently developing. Its not an exhaustive list but a snapshot of whats happening. I did start a technology blog but found it too time consuming to do... I may start it again and link back in to this website as a way of keeping this section fresh.
ALSO: I keep on meeting people who think this site is fab. If you use this site, then please email me on contactajbooker@yahoo.co.uk and give me some feedback and ideas. I also post information on the www.tes.co.uk 'staffroom' forums. usually in the Design technology section under the pseudonym 'bombikea'.
8th May 2007
A big thank you to Steve Malindine of New Wave Concepts who has agreed to let me place these worksheets on the Internet as he kindly paid me for creating them, but they have not been publicly released till now. Each worksheet is about 7 pages long and includes full details on placing components, selection and optimising PCB's. They are based on a range of simple electronic devices which can be built in the classroom and are all single sided boards. For various technical reasons, I can only post them here in Circuit Wizard format but you can email me for the PCB Wizard format they were originally written in.
Click on the icons below for a view of the final output. there is far more detail in the actual files.
Click on these links for the files:
These designs were developed to show how to optimise a circuit using PCB Wizard to simplify the sometimes complicated 'net' produced when autorouting. As Circuit Wizard uses a better autorouting algorothim, it is likely that you will get different results than the ones illustrated here. please do not repost these in any other format. they are the property of New Wave Concepts, not me!
Can i just remind people that the new version of Circuit Wizard is imminent which will include PIC programming.... This may prove to be a revolution in electronics similar to the difference Livewire and PCB Wizard made to our electronics teaching a few years ago. As Consultant, i have recommended Circuit Wizard to a school which has been approved to teach the new Engineering Diploma, because having reviewed the range of electronics software available, i STILL think NWC products are superior in actual use than competitors, but I recognise this is a keenly fought market!
Other work I am doing at the moment include:
- Vacuum Bazookas for a Nottingham EIP
- CPD in rejuvenating the KS2 DT curriculum for another Nottingham group of schools
- Anti-sexist programmable robots course for a family learning organisation
New way of doing KS2/3/4 wind turbines and the CPD to teach it for a range of schools - Alternative Bike carrier project manual, Water sculpture project manual, LEGO NXT project manual, SuperCapacitor problem solving course manual, all for an educational charity
More details posted here soon,with screenshots!
4th March 2007
Have a ton of stuff to add to the site in the next few weeks. At the moment am sorting a contract with various clients to allow me to put their paid for work to appear on the website. For the moment, I have placed a directory of 8 training films showing a simple vernier gauge drawn out in 2D Designer. This is hosted on the site temporarily until a permanent home is found for it. the films were paid for by Aim Higher in Nottingham as part of an engineering taster day being run on the 5th March at the Top Valley and Nat Puri Engineering centre.
The films make a gauge that only measures up to 30mm, the trick is to adapt it yourself to measure more, and keep the sizes of the 3 pieces making it up within a total area of an A4 piece of paper. If you manage that, add jaws to measure internal distances and consider how thick the material would have to be to make them work effectively!
Film 1
Film 2
Film 3
Film 4
Film 5
Film 6
Film 7
Film 8
Ruler file in 2D Design format
For the technical among you, the films were such small sizes, even though 800x 600 resolution, because I used a custom template for settings in Windows movie maker (See my bookmarks for how to do this) to keep the resolution at 800x 600 and ensure only 15 frames a second, same as input files, was used as the output settings. Note; If you reduce the resolution, you may actually increase the file size from an original screen capture because of noise generated when the program interpolates the data when reducing the amount of pixels. effectively this means that fuzzy but smaller films take up more space than original clear ones...
And for those fortunate enough to be part of the East Midlands G&T group and have access to the courses they run, I will be running a Saturday Morning intro and fast run through Sketchup in June 07. This will be a fast and furious chance to really get inside Sketchup and take away 5 or more sets of the program and useful files and e-Learning materials to give to friends. Look out for it in the list of events happening this summer!
15th January 2007
Big change, I have moved to being an Educational Consultant fulltime from January this year. I will be adding a lot of new bits to the site to reflect this but all the existing ideas and resources will remain free.
Here are a couple of examples of existing and upcoming projects
Big Bang Bridges. My idea to run a parent and child class to design and build bridges which incorporate a range of sensors including contact microphones. Testing is done in front of a video camera, with the bridges miked up to a 400watt, 8 foot high Marshall Stack audio amplifier so when it breaks, you will feel it. This picture was created using the free Google Sketchup program. Go to the Free Software section of this site for full details
Clockwork Critters, a development of a course run this term where KS2 pupils develop their own clockwork tank. This version here uses the same extremely low cost clockwork motor but simulates a scuttly movement. this frightens my cat and small children. Click HERE for a 1.5mb quicktime movie of scuttling...
7th November 2006
10 Freely Photocopiable 'Evil detentions' worksheets now available for free download in PDF format.
I have updated my del.icio.us website bookmarks and added a bunch of interesting ones around hovercraft and software. If you haven't tried it, you shoudl have a go and even set up your own bookmarks list using it.
I have also updated the freeware listing to show some excellent textiles related software,
The Sketchup info in my software section has a bunch of new files now as well for you to download and try out, and I have also added some files to the Google 'warehouse' section of sketchup, just search for ajbooker to get them.
6th October 2006
I have started to move all my Tech bookmarks to the www.del.icio.us website. This is a way of arranging bookmarks and making them available to anyone looking for quality chosen links. The big difference is that all the bookmarks on the 5 different computers I presently use in a week are now together and easily searchable by category. I will be continously adding to it.
Go HERE to see my bookmarks and let me know what you think
i have also added a Blog but because so much of my week is Consultancy work for others and therefore 'private', i can't really add much yet! I will work on it over the next month and place the link to it in November.
12th September 2006
Advert bars now added to most pages. this probably seems a strange thing for a free website but hosting a site that gets up to 3 million page viewings a year costs serious money and time! please bear with me. The site will not dissolve under a hail of banners and side bars, just a few headers here and there! AJB
21st August 2006
The Primary section now has even more free resources I created on behalf of Top Valley EAZ, including QTC torches and Robotic creatures info
15th August 2006
Evil detentions site is starting to get press reviews, go here to read them...
Also, announcing the imminent arrival of..
www.timeteasers.co.uk
The site will go live on 1st September 2006. A sister site to evil detentions, it will contain group and individual creative tasks suitable for primary, Secondary, Youth work, Motivational trainers and anybody who just needs something out of the ordinary, professionally presented. The first product with the timeteasers brand will be a set of 40, photocopiable worksheets. Each A4 sheet will contain a complete creative task, and the instructions. It will be available as an electronic, password protected PDF file and will cost £35. As with evil detentions, payment can be made through our Paypal setup. Samples will be available for download onthe timeteasers site from 1st september 2006
29th July 2006
Links section has a couple of new websites including the increasingly weird... 'Strange New Products'. Links will be a priority update over the next few months to make it directly useful to teachers of Technology and ICT
26th July 2006
UPDATED AGAIN! with lots of quotes from happy users and even more creative detention tasks
Get your Evil Detention cards here!
Evil detention cards are business card sized tasks with a unique 'evil index' for quick selection of your chosen detention.
Great for Youth groups. Team Building and ... Teachers
21st July 2006
Sketchup task available for download which is a box in 3D and a set of JPEG textures which need to be aligned and trimmed within sketchup to make the final piece.
20th July 2006
Sketchup models placed online through Warehouse feature. Sketchup has the ability to share models online for others and if you search for ajbooker within sketchup warehouse then you will get a list of features I have made, or pupils have produced for homeworks I have set. There are some amazingly good chess sets by pupils which are worth looking at..... Well done lads!
12th July 2006
Free Software section expanded, includes some excellent shareware such as Poly shown below
Also, lots of my Sketchup models now doanloadable through the google warehouse search facility built into Sketchup. More info on Sketchup here
22nd June 2006
Product Design section now has a Pupil Pages file so pupils can organise theri folders effectively
18th June 2006
SKETCHUP pages now have models for download and a 3 part video tutorial in drawing a wooden puzzle has been added
EVIL DETENTIONS site now has pictures of full sets of cards and a product shot
14th June 2006
SKETCHUP pages updated
!! EVIL DETENTIONS cards now on sale !!
7th June2006
SKETCHUP Video Tutorial on making an IPOD added to Education > Free Software section
4th June 2006
Free software listing. If you haven't heard about this stuff, you need to. Top quality software from major names for absolutely nothing. more will be added in the next few months
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24th May 2006
Evil Detentions site updated
Pop up Card files for laser cutting on 2D Designer in the 2D Design section.
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G&T CAD/CAM Kites added to the Primary DT section. Includes photos and 2D design files
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Paper decorations using 2D Design, like the ones you hang up instead of paper chains at Christmas
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Worksheet for teaching basic workshop strategy based on an ancient Giles cartoon.
Extra bits added to Evil Detentions... Now with worksheets for you to download and give to your pupils
12th April 2006
Complete set of introduction and use films for the TECHSOFT craftrobo machine. Also suitable for the STIKA and other CAM knife cutting machines. Includes six example box nets and films for 2D design of how to draw three of them, with narration.
Radio outline for rendering in the grfx section
PICAXE or small electronics board holder in the 2D Design section
Complete 2D design file for making a shark mechanism in the Laser cutting section
There are also a couple of new paintings in the watercolour section...
How to laser etch a raw egg in the laser section
14th December 2005
Primary DT work extended to include worksheets and examples on Geodesic Domes and Emergency Shelters as well as Anderson Shelters
8th December 2005
Texture library links page added to Graphics section. A range of standard and tileable (seamless) textures.
1st December 2005
Extensive CADCAM support minisite added. Contains downloadable free worksheets and lots of mini 30 second e-Learning films. The site supports teachers and pupils using Techsoft 2D Design, Primary and Secondary version. The site was created through my work for TVEAZ and is also available on the Top Valley School and Engineering College Website
2nd November 2005
Primary DT Support section added! Extensive resources to support the teaching of Anderson Shelters at KS2 and KS3 including a new pdf worksheet to make your own 3D Anderson Shelter out of card.
ALSO, Fairground ride in 3mm corrugated card for those able to cut 2D designer files on a laser cutter. Will fold up perfectly to make a full strong 3D fairground ride that can be easily motorised with an electric motor or used as the basis for an ultra cheap (less than £10 total) computer controlled model
5th October 2005
Set of 7 e-Learning films showing stage by stage how to draw the three layers of an LED torch, ready to be cut with a laser.
27th September 2005
MORE Product Packaging Nets. There are now 21 different scans. All at 300dpi and a few also in 150dpi. They are largish files so you may want to reduce them in an image editing package for other uses.
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26th September 2005
PICAXE circuits using a standard protoboard available from PICAXE.
22nd September 2005
Set of Product Packaging Nets added to the Product design Pages. Scanned in at 150dpi and one only at 300dpi for teaching packaging concepts. Suggest using first so pupils can understand difference between legal requirements, customer information and plain advertising. For suggestions of how to use packaging in a whole group session, see 'BOX' on the Micro Modules page
19th September 2005
Set of 6 double sided structures sheets in colour, downloadable in pdf format. See below for separate structures photo gallery
Also some photographs of a CAD/CAM bookmark on the laser cutting page
1st July 2005
Education main page now includes a structures section. This has a gallery of high resolution photographs for use when teaching basic structures, and some activity ideas for classes.
Egg wrap activity added to Product Design page
15th June 2005
Graphics page now has links to websites about dump bins. This appears to be the theme for the second OCR paper next week and you will find excellent information on these sites. Note, The theme can also be downloaded from the OCR site.
11th
June 2005
Front page now has Site and Google search set
up. Type in a keyword to see the pages on this site that contain the word
June 6th 2005
Started
to add icons to worksheet links:
You will need the Adobe Acrobat reader to view these files. It is fairly
common so you probably already have it on your computer.
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Masks
worksheet |
PICAXE
Alarm sheet |
KS3
Production Planning Sheet |
KS3
Alarm PCB sheet |
Spaghetti
Gantry task sheet |
Thank you to the 115 people who have downloaded the Product Design Pupil Guide (PDF File, Right click and choose 'save target as' to save a copy to your computer) this month (May 2005), Hope its useful. A set of matching stickers for the pupil folders will shortly be posted here...
May 24th 2005
Added Daisy - Box - Balls -Droop -Jim'Jams - Crush - Crumple - Drop to the Micro Modules page
May
22nd 2005
Added this rather tricky question....
What is the difference between a cake and a biscuit?
ANSWER: Over time, Cakes go hard and biscuits go
soft.....
May 18th 2005
Community Schemes of work added. If you are unsure how to start your school or college doing out of hours clubs, here are some tried, tested and fabulously detailed schemes of work for you to follow. They cover flight, team building, Robot Wars and Rocketry and are suitable for Keystages 2 to 4. Copyright is owned by Kirk Hallam Community Technology College and you need to contact them, or me through them, for more details. They are courses I set up and ran between September 2000 and May 2004. We have photos, films, worksheets and blank certficate templates for the lot.
Mechanisms
/ Art / Cultural Design
Mask
research sheet. PDF file. 4 pages covering why and how masks are used
with some questions in the mix
KS3
Graphics
Pet
carrier design worksheet PDF file. Some simple rules and regulations
for a useable pet carrier, type used to bring small animals home form
the pet shop. Test with a mars bar. This is an update to the file in the
grfx section which
was originally in Publisher format
Casting
Jewellery
information sheet PDF file to get pupils thinking about the link between
designs and emotions
General
Teaching
A mock
helpsheet about Head Lice. PDF file. Pupils assume all the info they
get on the Internet is true and therefore believe it. this might change
their minds and provoke class discussions about appropriate research techniques
Product Design
New version of the Pupil
Help Guide for the AQA
GCSE Product Design course. PDF file. This version should cover most areas
and has been checked against the syllabus requirements
Electronics
- Computer Control
Long
Flash film (4mb) with narration showing the relative difference between
using the free PICAXE flowsheet editor and the latest PIC-Logicator software.
Not fully edited so there are some odd info boxes within the film where
I clicked on the top bar to clear the screen
May 8th 2005
Product
Design
Existing
product photos showing varying photographs of two examples of 10 different
products
Photographs
of how to use laser cut corrugated card to make vacuum moulds
Laser Cutting
Photographs of prototype
lightstake case using 3mm plywood and poypropylene sheet. Cut with
Laser
Photographs of a case One
Two
Three
Four
Laser cut in 3mm corrugated card as models. Final version cut in 3mm plywood
Smart
Materials
2 Films
showing basic use of Polymorph
4MB each in Windows Media Player format
Mechanisms:
Photograph of prototype
plastazote mask CAM mechanism and a card
design by a pupil
Set of photographs
showing how to create a Spiderman based lever toy out of card
Electronics:
PDF
file of PICAXE module. Low cost way of producing an alarm without
making your own PCB. First in a series of 6*. This version is low resolution
but will be changed for a higher resolution 600dpi version soon.
Sets of matchbox
revision cards and the net of the cards storage wallet in PDF format.
Print them out and raise your grades......
e-Learning
materials
Various narrated sample films covering
Basic skills in
2D Designer
Creating
a circuit in PCB Wizard 3
5 narrated animated
films showing how to create a Mould and Box Net in 2D Designer. Then
how to create quality graphics using Microsoft Publisher to fit the box
Pro
Desktop file version of making a mould here
You will need the shockwave plug-in to view these. Available from Macromedia.com
Audio quality is variable as I used standard desktop microphones
Pro
Desktop sample files
A
part finished speaker showing complex geometry created from standard
shapes, and a ship
created as an example to get pupils thinking on a Macro scale. The graphics
mould drawn in Pro desktop