HIGH-FIVE!

Computers4Kids Clubhouse Coordinator, Blair, is working with youth and mentors to build a high-five counter, to bring high-tech smiles to the runners and spectators at the Charlottesville Ten Miler race. Youth and mentors are helping design the device and problem-solve creative ways to create a button-like mechanism that will fit inside the glove. The team are developing their mechanical and electrical engineering skills and are using Arduino micro-computers, an LED matrix, LED strips, and buttons. The counter works by a makeshift button in the glove that triggers the count on the LED matrix to go up by one. ​