Moorside Year 5 Visit to the CLC- Using the Raspberry Pi

Moorside's Year 5 students have become traffic light engineers learning to design, build and program traffic lights using Raspberry Pi computers. They learned how to connect up electronic components including LEDs to a breadboard as a traffic light prototype and then programmed their Raspberry Pi in Scratch GPIO to control the traffic lights. Their main challenge was to control their traffic lights based on the UK traffic light system.

The Raspberry Pi  with the connected components to make a prototype set of traffic lights.  

Testing their circuit.

Programming their Raspberry Pi using Scratch GPIO.

Connecting up their circuit.

Controlling the red light.

Some gaming time...

Setting up.