Facilitating Gender Parity: One Engineering School’s Journey
Joseph Helble, dean of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, talks diversity in engineering classes, and how to achieve it.
Technology
Finding Jim Henson in Junk: Animatronic Bots Will Make You Smile
Using junk to build animatronic bots is whimsical and amusing. These cobbled-together bots are just filled with personality.
What Intel Learned from its New Reality Show for Makers
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich launches a build-off reality show for Makers.
Sprout 3D PC & Scanner, New ‘Tour Truck’ Draw Throngs at World Maker Faire
Sprout by HP has a touch-sensitive ‘mat’ that goes beyond conventional computers and provides an experience so easy even a child can use it.
This Trippy Arduino-Powered “Plant” Trains Your Brain
Ever wish you could synchronize your brainwaves with an otherworldly luminescent plant from the comfort of your own room?
Build Your Own Satellite Ground Station
We talk to the creators of SatNOGS, an open source and open hardware satellite ground station built using a 3D printer, off the shelf components, and $300.
Coin Cell Sized MetaWearC Packs Power to Target Wearables Market
Size, battery life, and communications are starting to converge towards the stage where the wearables objects are not just possible, but usable. The new MetaWearC board isn’t just riding that trend, it’s leading it.
