🔍 Year 7 Digital Technologies — Hub

Hamilton College · 2026 · Term 2

This is your home for everything Year 7 Digi Tech online. Bookmark this page.

This term

dt7/2026 Digital Technologies - Year 7 - Term 2 — what we're doing across all 4 workshops, week by week.

The booklet companion has video explainers, interactive tools, hardware photos, deeper Q&A, and the binary practice answers.

Each video referenced in the printed booklet has its own page with "what to watch for" prompts and Have-a-Go questions:

dt7/Tom Scott - Fetch Execute Cycle (way2.cc/ca7) — Hear the CPU clack on a wardrobe-sized relay computer.
dt7/Crash Course - Binary (way2.cc/ca8) — Carrie Anne Philbin: from "two states" to ASCII, RGB, and kilobyte trivia.
dt7/Vox - Undersea Cables (way2.cc/ca9) — 99% of the world's internet runs through cables thinner than a garden hose.
dt7/Raspberry Pi Foundation - What Is A Raspberry Pi (way2.cc/caa) — The official 4-minute Pi tour.

Optional. Open if you want to know more.

dt7/GPU vs CPU — Why AI runs on GPUs, with a paintball-gun demo.
dt7/FreeCAD Extension — For students who've outgrown TinkerCAD (links into Workshop 2).
dt7/Robot Marathon — Fun robotics videos, ties to Workshop 2.

Pages will appear here as we get to each workshop. For now, see the dt7/2026 Digital Technologies - Year 7 - Term 2 for what's coming.

Wiki maintained by Jeremy Chen and Cloudy. Suggestions welcome — ask your teacher.