DXCEL TELESCOPE FOR KIDS MOVIE
DXCEL TELESCOPE FOR KIDS SOFTWARE

Show your kids how, do it often, and make it fun, and you’ll do more for your kid’s future by “cheating” than you ever will by doing Heaviside: It is exactly the same in science, math and any other “hard” topic – or making friends for that matter. That’s why they run in circles around your kids. Those kids who excel have been playing catch, hitting balls and running in circles for years. When your kid walks onto that field and sucks so bad that he wants to quit and never wants to play again, it’s not your kid’s fault.

The kids who excel have already had several years of training in that sport courtesy of mom and/or dad. The difference between the kids good at T-ball (or some other sport) and the ones who suck and “don’t get it” is generally not the kid, but the parents. If you’re a parent with young kids, I’ll let you in on a little secret: I used to hate this practice, but the truth is that these parents are actually pushing these kids way up a curve that many other kids won’t encounter until college. The adults who judge these things are seldom able to identify whether or not a kid originated the project or not, so it isn’t used as a criteria unless the kid is obviously just a sock puppet for dad’s ego. In fact, many parents will hire professionals to coach and provide live experience with the kids about presenting their projects. The ones who do well and win prizes are the ones with parents or relatives who endlessly coach them, and tell them to do X, Y or Z, and make all sorts of resources available to them, including editing, ghost writing and extensive tutoring. Instead, the ones working in solitary conditions almost always end up like the radioactive boyscout, doing applied science without much understanding of the big picture, and often sacrificing social skills to become slaves of information acquisition without proper goals, or mistakenly assuming that rational thought exists and therefore… well, lots of things.

You will find a handful of kids (I was one) who will try to do stupid things (build lasers, robots and submarines) on their own, but they simply cannot absorb enough information working alone to make things happen. The amount of information and cultural knowledge that must be transmitted to someone of this age to do what we think of as serious work is incredible. Look at almost any science fair and the same is true – in every case, the kid is the vehicle for the parent’s work and organization. Posted in Radio Hacks Tagged radio, Radio Telescope, telescope Post navigation We’re still waiting for someone to throw a Realtek SDR telescope together, so if you’ve got one send it in

DXCEL TELESCOPE FOR KIDS SOFTWARE

This telescope was built in 2005, meaning couldn’t take advantage of any of the new advances in cheap software radios.

DXCEL TELESCOPE FOR KIDS MOVIE

Like a lot of us, was very much influenced by the movie Contact, something we brought up last week in a post on software-defined radio telescopes. Yep, ’s scope can detect radio waves coming directly from the sun. For the next few hours, the telescope gathered and integrated radio signals to make an awesome graph. At around 10:00 am they pointed the telescope at where the sun would be at 1:30 pm. These signals are amplified, filtered, and sent to an ICOM IC R-7000 receiver specially modified by ’s dad for radio astronomy.Īfter her telescope saw first light, and decided to use their brand new toy to detect the passage of the sun. Instead of a gigantic satellite dish, used a loop yagi antenna to collect radio signals in the 1420 MHz band. , with the help of her dad built this radio telescope in 5th grade, and even gave a presentation on this build at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. The cool thing about this picture is it wasn’t taken with millions of dollars worth of equipment instead, only a few hundred dollars worth of ham radio gear was needed to get a picture of the Milky Way. The image above is a picture of Hydrogen emissions from our galaxy.

Dxcel telescope for kids