littleBits Launches Its Own Hardware “App Store” with BitLab
LittleBits wants to add your electronics modules to its collection — and they’re borrowing a chapter from the app store to help make it happen.
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The Arduweenie
This is the tell-all guide to #Arduweenie, a bewitching maker project brought to you by Tenaya Hurst of Rogue Making and dog hunter LLC. My project is a wire frame in the shape of a dachshund dog wrapped with a 5 meter long RGB LED strip which I program. That’s all he is, and yet, […]
Sphero Goes Extreme with New Ollie
Sphero, the little, round, programmable robot, rolled its way into many hearts since it was released in 2011, confounding pets and expressing a unique form of movement. It was a reimagining of both robots and remote control. For its second act, the company is reimagining wheels — at least, wheels in the context of robots. […]
Wyliodrin Cloud Programming Supports Pi and Galileo
Wyliodrin is an online service that allows you to visually create applications for Linux development boards and control them from your browser. You can use their service to program a Raspberry Pi and they’ve recently partnered with Intel to allow you to program second generation Galileo boards. Users can start with Visual Programming, a language […]
Go to the Milwaukee Maker Faire and Solve the Laser Maze
If you want to channel your inner Catherine Zeta-Jones and give it a shot yourself, take a crack at the Laser Maze.
Beyond Barbie
These toys can help sow a love of STEAM in girls, simply by doing and making. Use your little one’s likes as a starting point and see where it leads.
Pi Top: 3D printed, Full Sized, Raspberry Pi Laptop
The Pi Top is an educational kit. It appears as though it is in the early stages of planning an upcoming crowdfunding campaign. the basic idea is that you assemble the entire laptop yourself and learn a few things along the way. There are a series of lessons packaged in software that come along with […]