POWER JUNKIES

Intended primarily as a follow-on to the Bright Sparks Course, Power Junkies delves even deeper into the fascinating world of modern electronic principles and micro-sized circuits.

Practical work and individual projects feature heavily, as students are encouraged to explore digital principles and conduct their own experiments on specialised training boards.

During the weekend, we will be dismantling a computer to find out exactly how it works and become adept at thinking in binary and hexadecimal as we understand how digital communications can multiplex speech, pictures and data into a single high speed channel of information.

A Presentation to Parents at the end of the course provides an opportunity to highlight the results of our exploration and demonstrate the technologies we have seen.

	Advanced digital training boards enable students to explore logic circuits - here a clock pulse counts in hexadecimal		Adrian coaches a group of students on how to configure the digital training boards

	A small IC chip is cracked open and its semiconductor contents examined by microscope

	A student explains the technology to his parents during a presentation at the end of the course