Hands-on and project-based learning is making waves in the traditional education system for students and educators alike. Consider yourself a lifelong learner? Explore below for new ideas and information to discover!
[Image from Electric Vehicles are for Girls] Nikki Bloomfield pointed this one out to me yesterday while we were talking about EVs. The idea here is that if you want to do an electric car conversion, but are not fully confident, you can join others and take an online course through the Electric Cars are […]
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s FSR tutorial, Limor and Phil continue their Sensor Tutorial series with another crystal-clear exposition of a component, this one on the photocell (aka CdS, LDR, photoresistor). Great stuff, guys. Thanks! Photocells
One of the robotics groups we’re going to have at Maker Faire this year is the Jesuit High School Robotics team, from Sacramento, CA. They’ll be showing off their underwater ROVs. Here’s a teaser vid they did. Jesuit High School Robotics
Students at Georgia Tech developed this Arduino-based, solar-powered bus-tracking system that shows students where the buses are on campus at any given time so they can decide if it’s quicker to wait for the bus or walk to their next class. The site for the system has lots of information and media on the system’s […]
Another day, another couple of cool, wacky vids from Fatman and Circuit Girl. In the first vid, Jerri has George laughing his butt off over her ridiculous flipdown clock wrist watch. Tres chic, it ain’t! In the second video, Jeri explains EDM, electrical discharge machining, a technique that came up recently on Make: Talk. She […]
Here are a couple more excerpts from The Fat Man and Circuit Girl show. In the first clip, Jeri converts an optical flatbed scanner so that it rotates around an object (like her FACE!) and scans inward. In the second, she makes a cloud chamber with a toy tank (a tank in a tank) to […]
Over on the PC World blogs, Phil Shapiro has penned a glowing piece about MAKE, entitled “Exit Newsweek – Enter MAKE Magazine,” on the news that Newsweek may be going the way of the dinosaur. The piece is filled with wonderful, flattering quotes about MAKE: If you haven’t seen this magazine yet, check out the […]
