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Building a miniature Catapult

Along with a Sixth Grader, who was interested in medieval times, and so came the thought of building a miniature catapult with him. It consisted of blocks and nylon ropes that acted as the torsional element. after building it, he tried a...

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Alice in STEMLAND

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a...

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STEM land Inauguration

We inaugurated the STEM land on 9th October 2015. It was one of my awesome moment in my life. I learnt a lot in that period( like organizing the materials, maintaining the STEM books, planning for inauguration and 3D printing). STEM land...

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Debugging simulation run errors “integration methods”

When your simulation can’t complete and ends unexpectedly….. go to the Simulate/ control panel/Spice .. and change the default integration method to “GEAR” and things should run fine..

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The Hindu article about the STEMLAND

Making, tinkering and engineering their way to knowledge School uses theory of constructivism, which says knowledge is not taught to a learner At the STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) Land and Resource Centre at Udavi School in Auroville, young Hemasundar is busy...

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Getting ‘officially’ started in STEMLAND

The inauguration of STEMland has just happened. It feels good to be part of something different and useful for children as well as adults who are into math, technology, electronics etc… Over the past month and a half STEMland has given me...

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Timer in Python

I encountered a situation where I had to check if a function is running for a certain time. The below method called ‘after’ was very useful. This registers an alarm callback that is called after a given time. Syntax : after(delay_ms, callback=None,...

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Creating a Spice Model from a .subckt file

The following video demonstrates on how to create a spice model of a component, from a .subckt file which can be acquired from the retailer. following is a spice model file for a bridge rectifier ; mb6s data sheet : MB6S_MCC –...

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Op-Amp positive feedback design

The following circuit has a voltage source that operates between 3V and 5V and is connected to the Op Amp’s positive input, across a resistor divider R2 and R1 at the node Va. The simulation is run for 200m secs. The design...

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