Project Non Smart Home 3.0

 Once again, it's June, and a new school year ends.

It has been a new chance for our 3rd ESO students, to convert their dreams into real things by designing and building their Non Smart Homes.

You can consult the conditions in a previous year entry.

 In this case we took the pictures including the group sketch and the final built project. It is very interesting to spot differences, and how distant or close ideas and reality are in each case. 

We have minimalist designers:

 

 Other designers prefer dining rooms with sofas, different models of TV...:

 

Bedrooms were present too:

There were groups that prefer lofts, including different stages: bedroom, kitchen and dining room in the same space.

 And finally, the projects to be saved from  recycling are these:

  

Kitchen with fan, microwave and oven

 

 Garden with chill out area, night lights and fan.

 

Creepy house with strange lights, sounds and motions 

 

Dining room with plasma TV, air conditioner and relaxing lights

The experience of working in teams, design something together, find the difficulties to get it into a real object, and the pride of seeing it working is completely worth. 

Here you are some videos of projects working. 

 

11th February 2026: International Day of Women and Girls in Science

 

Once again this year, in our Technology class, we celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in Science by creating Scratch games that introduce us to the lives and work of women in science. 

 This year, we coordinated with the Physics, Chemistry, and English teachers, and the information gathered and reviewed for these subjects was used for our games. Here you are a selection of the best ones to inspire you. 

Congratulations to all the students for their hard work!

 

Africa Ortiz and Glen Rodríguez (3ºDE)

 

Alicia Palomo and  Emma Manzano (3ºBC)

 

 

Alicia Tortajada and  Jimena Martín (3ºBC)

 

Carmen Gascón and  Pedro Dies (3ºBC) 

Project Non Smart Home 2.0

 Good morning

As a second year with the new subject "Technologies and Digitisation", the last term we have been working in our particular project.

You can consult the conditions in the last year entry.

 This year we have 18 pairs, with 18 different views of how to build their non smart home. Here you are some examples.

A gamer house: 

 

This pair loves bakery and ice creams:

There are minimalist houses too:

 

 

 

These two houses are examples of design and building matching completely. Congratulations because it is not the usual practice, with many changes and adaptations during the process:

We can find different dining rooms, some of them with the garage near:

 

 

 

 

And bedrooms too:

 

 Some groups prefer the kitchen:

 

 

 

 

 Another group is especially worried about the rain:

 

 

The garden can be an open environment:

 

 

The idea of house is not especially closed:

 

The experience of working in teams, design something together, find the difficulties to get it into a real object, and the pride of seeing it working is completely worth. 

Here you are some videos of projects working.

 

Congratulations to all the groups and I hope you have enjoyed the subject and the experience.

Have a good summer! 

11th February 2025: International Day of Women and Girls in Science

 One more year, we celebrated this day by creating Scratch programs. Here you are some fantastic examples. Enjoy them!!

Project created by Samuel Molina and Pablo Rodríguez (3ºESO DE)

Project created by Victoria Nicolae and Lucía Rogel (3ºESO DE)

Project created by Ana Andreica and Celia Cebrián (3ºESO BC)

Great work!!!

PROJECT: A NON SMART HOME

 After more than 5 years without going to the workshop, this school year we have changed our project in 3rd ESO.

This project is quite simple and purely electric. The students had to create a "house" with manual controls for a buzzer, a lamp and a motor, simulating the lights, fan or bell in a house.

In a later stage of the project, they do the same by using an Arduino Board and sensors, so that they can check the differences and the evolution of electricity with the introduction of electronics components.

This project has been made in pairs or groups of three.

These are the conditions to accomplish:

 

DESIGN AND BUILD a Non Smart Home with the following CONDITIONS:

1. COMPULSORY:

   •  Maximum dimensions: (0.75p) 
   • Height: 150 mm
   • Width: 210 mm
   • Depth: 200 mm
   • It includes a bell, a bulb and a motor (fan) to be acted independently by a push button and two swittches. (4,5p)
   • Its structure must be stable, rigid and resistant (0,75p)

2. OPTIONAL:

   •  Hidden circuitry (0,75p)
   •  Light design and material saving (0,75p)
   •  Accessibility to change spare parts: battery, bulb,… (0.75p)
   •  Original design (0,75p)
   •  Aesthetic: finish and paint (1p)
     
     

    

   Some groups decided not to make things difficult and chose basic smart homes

   
   

   
   
   
   
   
   

   
   
   
   
   
   
   

    

   
   
    

   In this case, they add a door and some walls.
   
   

   

   There are a bit more decorated examples:

   
   
   
   
   
    
   

    These are more fashioned homes:

   
   
   
   
   
    

   Some are really original and cute.

    

   
   
   
   
   
    
   
   
   
   
   
    

   The idea of home has been not clear for other groups, which decided to be more creative

   
   
   
   
   
    

   Here you are an example of project working.

    

   
   

   Anyway, it is a fantastic experience to design and create something from zero, and check the result at the end of the process. 

   Good work and good summer for everybody!!