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    Exploration

    Indoor Boomerang Game

    Watch how Erik invents a simple boomerang target and then ups his game by coming up with an automated micro:bit robotic target to reset between each throw from the ceiling.

    Engineering Design
    Games
    12-14+
    45:00
    Boomerang - Template

    Watch Episode

    Episodes from the School of Ridiculous Inventions are open-ended, inspirational resources you can share with your students learning how to brainstorm and act on prototyping ideas following an iterative and creative design process. There is a suggested list of resources to use if students want to try remaking the projects made.

    16:03

    Sketchbook

    Creating a moving target that repositions itself once it senses the cardboard boomerang in front of the micro:bit.

    Resources

    Here are resources shown in the episode to get you started on your process.

    Boomerang Template