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May
02

Growing Grit: My 8th Grade Garduino Project

arduino, education, gardening, Kids & Family Comments Off on Growing Grit: My 8th Grade Garduino Project 

Chase_GarduinoMaking a self-maintained, Arduino-based garden helped with instilling “grit,” the trait of not giving up when you hit obstacles.

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Mopsey the MonsterbotWhat can this bot do? What do you want it to do?

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screen-shot-2014-02-28-at-4-31-47-pmRaspberry Pi and Raspberry Pi Alamode join forces to control a Pinewood Derby race track.

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Feb
19

Making Fun: Mission Control Desk

arduino, Fun & Games, Furniture, Kids & Family, Raspberry Pi, space Comments Off on Making Fun: Mission Control Desk 

Mission Control Desk PanelI built my son a Mission Control console that closes up and works as a regular homework desk. It plays space-related sounds and has many lights, knobs and switches.

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d012efb95054f2296c18d37bbcdddc1f_largeHow do you teach programming to children with no prior programming experience?

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Nov
11

New Project: Hack “My Keepon” With an Arduino Brain

arduino, Electronics, Featured, Fun & Games, Kids & Family, make 35, Robotics Comments Off on New Project: Hack “My Keepon” With an Arduino Brain 

M35_Proj_MyKeepon_Opener_03It’s alive! Hack your My Keepon toy into a low-cost animatronic puppet with many of the same functions as Keepon Pro. We'll show you how to connect an Arduino to My Keepon’s electronics, so you can control it using just about any sensors, devices, and interfaces you can imagine, wired or wireless.

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M35_Toolbox_Huantbox-1The barrier between the average Joe and a fully automated haunted house just got lowered.

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401214193392Maker Faire loves robots. Don't you? Here are just a fraction of the robotic exhibits, presenters and performers at World Maker Faire 2013. Robots for kids! Aerial Drones, Robotic Art, Humanoid Robots, and more.

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BSt3O4MCAAA0gkp.png-largeThe maker movement is moving along full throttle, with things like Maker Faire Rome (European Edition) coming up, posters that say things like “Make Something Today” popping up literally everywhere I turn around (at least in Toronto), and companies that could be considered the “fathers” of the maker movement (e.g. […]

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Students design and build an irrigation system.Chelsey RoeBuck and Clayton Dahlman of ELiTE are using Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and other platforms to pilot STEM education programs, packaged in backpacks, and delivered to resource limited communities around the world.

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