HOW IT WORKS
15 self-guided Missions with characters and storylines keep students engaged.
Instructions are part of the experience!
Widgets connect to the Base Station to extend the program experience.
EXPLORE THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF TECHNOLOGY
With Piper Make, Widgets may be added on to the Base Station to extend the Piper Make Experience.
Each Widget is aligned with a STEM career pathway!
PIPER MAKE WIDGETS
Base Station
Sensor Explorer
Game Controller
Light Show
Beam Break
Motion Ball
Solar House
Soil Sensor
Robotic Rover
Robotic Walker
Pulse
BASE STATION
Everything you need to explore 10 self-guided Missions with characters and storylines to keep kids engaged.
The Piper Make Base Station is the base kit for all Piper Make products, includes the Raspberry Pi microcontroller which serves as the brains of all the missions you’ll find on our free, drag-and-drop coding platform make.playpiper.com.
As you help Piperbot and Pip explore Mars in our storyline, you’ll learn computational thinking, basic circuitry, and so much more.
SENSOR EXPLORER
Four new missions, an incredible way to measure the world around you!
The Sensor Explorer is widget for the Piper Make Base Station or the Piper Computer Kit.
As you meet new characters with Piperbot and Pip in our storyline (including some new Zomar friends and an enigmatic Color Wheel), you’ll learn how you can use sensors to measure color, distance, and temperature in the world around you
GAME CONTROLLER
Build and code your own D.I.Y. Game Controller and then use it to play classic arcade games!
There’s no better way to engage the
gaming enthusiast in your life with the
love of STEM learning, from building
and coding your controller yourself to
playing through the incredible
educational content of Minecraft
Education Edition.
Play through three missions on the
Gaming Expedition and eight
mini-games.
LIGHT SHOW
Explore the intersection of technology and art.
Create your own scrolling messages and send them along to friends or create brilliant art with lights! With Light Show, use your creativity and flair to design with technology and light. Explore game design by programming LED lights to mimic the game Tetris.
Play through 2 missions on the
Design Expedition.
BEAM BREAK
Explore concepts of acceleration, velocity, and movement using toy cars!
It's a race between Piperbot and Pip: Who will win?
Using infrared sensors to detect when your car “breaks the beam” while racing down a track, users will learn the basics of using sensors in the physical world and doing calculations in code – all while racing to the finish!
MOTION BALL
Learn about motion in three dimensions – by tossing a ball!
Build and code your own gyroscopic ball and toss it around to play Marsball (the Martian take on baseball), with Piperbot and Pip!
As you learn to play Marsball with Piperbot you’ll learn how spin can relate to speed – an incredibly valuable kinetics lesson for not only our future physicists but also any athlete/technologists out there!
SOLAR HOUSE
Explore how solar energy can power our homes!
It's more important than ever to understand how we can harness energy from the world around us in environmentally-conscious ways. And what better way to learn those concepts early than with your very own solar house?
With a solar panel atop the roof, you'll build circuits to understand how to save solar energy, simulate the sun with your own flashlight, and use it to light up your house.
SOIL SENSOR
Explore agriculture technology and rock out!
Smart Farming is the newest technology found across the world to help build a more sustainable world. Explore the Soil Sensor experiencing how farmers are using technology to build a more efficient farm and agricultural techniques.
ROBOTIC ROVER
Build your own Rover and code Piperbot and Pip's escape from the angry Zomars!
Designed to inspire creativity and critical thinking about robotic design and inspiration, the Rover will get users thinking about how robots move in space and how to use sensors to detect space.
As you help Piperbot and Pip escape an angry crowd of Zomars, you’ll learn the relationship between rotation and linear speed and steer using the ultrasonic range finder – important learning points for any self-driving car enthusiasts out there!
ROBOTIC WALKER
Build your own robotic walker and code it to walk, dance, and detect walls to compete in the Mars Creature Competition!
Designed to inspire creativity and critical thinking about robotic design and inspiration, the Walker will get users thinking about how robots move in space and how to use sensors to detect space.
As you help Piperbot and Pip compete in a Mars Creature Competition, you’ll learn how sequential angle changes can let your robot walk, dance, and detect obstacles to stop – a must-have for future technologists out there!
Play through 3 three missions on the Robotics Expedition.
PULSE
Explore how human physiology works – by sensing your own!
Ever had your heart rate measured with one of those sensors in the doctor’s office? In this mission, you’ll build your own.
As you help Pip and Dr. Lizard power Piperbot up in our narrative based on planet Trezed, you’ll learn how your heart pumps blood throughout your body – a foundational biomedical concept.
WORKS WITH CHROMEBOOKS
We are proud to be an official Google for Education Partner. Piper Make works seamlessly with
Chromebooks or any computer using a Chrome or Edge browser. Piper Make also integrates
with Google Classroom so class assignments are easy to assign.
EDUCATOR RESOURCES
FOR USING PIPER MAKE
PLAYBOOKS
Playbooks guide educators through the
curated content around clean energy,
bio-med, game design and more!
35+ STEAM missions, assessments,
student hand-outs, vocabulary, and
instructional resources
EDUCATOR GUIDES
For educators, our Piper Make
online platform includes tools to
facilitate teaching with Piper Make!
Exploration activites that enable
students to discover circuitry and
electronics concepts in StoryMode.
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