Teaching kids to program with wooden blocks
How do you teach programming to children with no prior programming experience? How do you teach programming to children that can yet read or write?
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Building a hackable robotic arm
The meArm is a small, hackable, robotic arm designed from the ground up to be low cost and easy to use.
BITalino (r)evolution: Circuits for Quantified Self and More
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bitalino/bitalino-revolution We first met Hugo Silva last year when he introduced us to Bitalino, an Arduino-compatible electronics toolkit designed for exploring the various physiological signals that the human body gives off. The latest iteration of the platform, BITalino (r)evolution, is more affordable and capable than ever, but the team still needs backers to get off […]
3D Printed Paper Airplane Launching Gun
One nutty tinkerer built a gun that folds and fires paper airplanes.
Engineer designs a cyberpunk themed VFD wristwatch
Engineer designs a cyberpunk themed wristwatch using a VFD display tube powered by a single AA battery.
Unfortunately, it only runs for a few hours.
Running Easel On Raspberry Pi
Sacha De’Angeli uses the Raspberry Pi loaded with Easel to power a Shapeoko CNC mill, essentially turning it into a CAD workstation.
An Arduino-Based Computer
While most of us think of Arduino boards as something to be programmed by a computer, there’s really nothing that says you can’t use an Arduino-style microcontroller as one. It could be argued that the Arduino is already a computer, but in the case of the DemUino, a small display is embedded into an old […]
