SigmaCamp 2015: Semilabs

What is fire? What components are necessary for something to burn? Can things burn without oxygen? In water? Since ancient times, people have...

In this semilab, we will teach a small robot to find its way from a maze!

Along the way, we will learn a variety of valuable techniques,...

Sometimes people want to keep their communications secret. Others, on the other hand, always want to break into other people's secrecy. This...

Using Python programming language we will introduce basic concepts of programming.  We will introduce variables, data structures, and flow...

In this lab we will integrate psychology (deception), physiology (arousal and working memory), engineering (electrodes, transducers, and signal...

You will learn the chemical concepts and reactions through a rich web of science, history and the arts (painting and photography). You will...

Learn how ancient civiliazations, Greeks and then Romans, created stone. Discover how building material that survived millennia was made. Learn...

Humans have tied knots since ancient times. We shall learn how to tie knots for sailing, climbing, camping and decoration. We shall also draw...

Think for a moment how much electric lights, computers, the internet, and cell phones matter to us today. These and the many other inventions...

How do we identify all the living species around us? These days scientists can use short fragments of DNA (so called barcodes) as unique and...

Particles and fields are the elementary carriers of energy and matter as we know and experience in our everyday life. Particles constitute our...

Electrical engineering has been used to make musical instruments for over half a century. Instruments by such makers as Moog, Korg, and Roland...

"How to grill a perfect steak? What is the secret of soufflé that no cookbook will tell? What makes a gel jelly? Science may help you to become an...

This semilab will walk you in to the world of programmable electronics using Arduino microcontroller. In a set of individual labs you will learn...

An introduction to some concepts and techniques in molecular biology/genetics. Central to this semilab will be a few typical laboratory...

Topology is a very important branch of mathematics, and is the "nemesis" of geometry. In geometry, shapes are defined by the lengths, angles, etc...

Coloring problems, human relations, power grids, information flows, electric circuits, and even the theory of elementary particles use...

We will discuss what is currently known about the Universe at large: how old the Universe is, how large it is, what was there in the very...

What is genetic engineering? Simply put, you take a gene of some protein, introduce it into a new organism, and this organism starts to produce...

Although the word "chemistry" is frequently associated with the word "poison", one can do a real chemistry without dealing with poisonous...

In this Semilab, we will develop advanced microcontroller projects. We will first introduce advanced programming and interfacing strategies for...

We will use a tank chassis, ESP8266 microcontroller, and Blynk app to construct a rover that can be controlled via cellphone or navigate...

"Algebraists usually define groups as sets with operations satisfying a long list of difficult-to-remember axioms. To my mind, such a definition...

There are many ways to think about numbers. We can use binary or decimal systems, write numbers as fractions or as solutions of various equations...