Ohmwork podcast prep

For those that are not familiar with Ohmwork, our goal is to have bi-monthly podcasts during the school year where projects will cost at most $35, we are aiming to have costs as low as possible to help parents and teachers implement these projects in their homes or classroom. We hope that by creating a social network site we can create a resource for teachers as well as students to perpetually build better D.I.Y activities and curriculum.

We have been working the past two weeks ramping up for our web launch of November 1st. Corey and I have finished with our podcast ideas and began to purchase and test. Joseph has started to build our social network site with ning and drupal. For our first podcast we begin with fundamental concepts of electricity we will be covering:

• How devices are powered, electrons flow from the ground to the + to power devices
• Explain that electric currents only flow when a circuit is complete and that current is a component of electricity
• Explain that conductors are materials that conduct electricity
• Explain resistance as a component of electricity and how resistance can change the flow of current

Our activities for podcast one will be to , build a LED circuit using conductive thread to either enhance a picture or the circuit itself becomes the picture. We continue in the podcast to incorporate Origami with the circuit. Here are a few pictures of our initial tests