Digital Maker Stage 3 Activity Badge (Raspberry Pi)

Digital Maker Stage 3 Activity Badge (Raspberry Pi)

The Scouts have partnered with the Raspberry Pi Foundation, an amazing charity specialising in bringing digital making to people all over the world, to develop these badge requirements, new for May 2018. The new badge requirements move away from abstract concepts to use digital skills to solve problems, build resilience, help their communities and express themselves.

How to earn the badge:

In stage 3 you will demonstrate that you can use and combine a variety of digital making skills to complete projects that can be used in Scouting activities or in the wider world.

• In a coding language of your choice, create a basic program to meet a need of Scouting or your section.
• Use a programmable device (such as Arduino, Raspberry Pi, or micro:bit) with electronic components, code, and appropriate materials to create an electronic gadget and use it in a Scouting activity.
• Design and create digital graphics for use as part of one of the above. The elements of the project should all fit within the project’s specific purpose.
• Show and present your digital making project, explaining the challenges that you encountered while creating it and how you addressed them.

Top tips:

• For requirement 1, you could create a basic website for your section or a choose-your-own-adventure story on Scratch, a computer program to choose teams for a game or activity, or write a program for encrypting and decrypting secret messages.
• For requirement 2, you could create a micro:bit Morse code compass, or program a robot to avoid obstacles to simulate the search of a disaster area.