Projects

Every successful space flight needs a mission control. With your Piper Computer Kit, use PiperCode to program a launch sequence, sound effects, and LED lights to power your rocket’s boosters.

Houston, we’re ready for takeoff! See how hardware and software can be combined in the final project of our #OutOfThisWorld STEM project series.

Let’s explore binary code, a foundational part of computing! In this project, you will try to speak a few words in machine language, just as computers do.

With the new Piper Sensor Explorer, there are not only endless possibilities for creation, but now we can use data to inform our creations! Today, we’re going to build a beat-making machine using the Ultrasonic Range finder. Once we’re finished, we will have coded a special drum to produce rhythms!

To start learning how to make your own visualizers or video games, you need to first learn how to use Processing.  Since it was originally develope...

In order to use your controller with any video game, first you need to upload the firmware. STEP 1 Detach Controller Piece #7 or #8 (so you can vie...

NOTE: This project does not work on all browsers.  Chrome, Edge, Opera, and a few others will work - to find out if your browser will work, click ...

With Processing, you’ll be able to create more controlled drawings, as if physically drawing with a pencil. To do so, you must edit the existing c...

This tutorial walks you through the process of setting up communications between a Microcontroller Board and the processing interface. After learn...

In order to sketch with processing, you need to learn how to register the “mouse” movement with code. In this case, the joystick moves in place of ...

In this project you will learn how to wire mini buttons on the Breadboard Puck to the Microcontroller, in order to customize the Command Center as a game controller.

Students will use the range finder sensor in combination with PiperCode: Security Zone to create their own sensor alarm and learn to graph results.