I’m a big Apple fan and I have lots of Apple products and the real problem is that iOS is boring. Tim Cook is known for efficiency and Jonathan Ive loves his basic looks, however, when combined they are boring! iOS used to have lots of little details that …

Everything starts somewhere...

The Internet of Things - Nuts & Volts Magazine - For The Electronics Hobbyist

NUTS & VOLTS MAGAZINE (NOVEMBER2014)

THE INTERNET OF THINGS By Bryan Bergeron    View Digital Edition  

» Skip to the Extras Since the birth of the Internet, there has been talk of total connectivity — between people, people and their …

The Joy of Tech comic... A gathering of robots!

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AI, Apple and Google — Benedict Evans

There are really two things going on here - you’re using voice to fill in a dialogue box for a query, and that dialogue box can run queries that might not have been possible before. Both of these are enabled by machine learning, but …

‘We Hardly Understand Anything’: Rodney Brooks On Artificial Intelligence | Radio Boston

If you’re going to talk about robots, there’s no better person to talk with than Rodney Brooks. He’s the former director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He’s also co-founder of two …

Robot Surgeons Are Taking Over the Operating Room - IEEE Spectrum

Advanced surgical robots are already helping doctors perform operations with previously unimaginable precision. But fairly soon, doctors may be able to hand the scalpel over entirely—at least for simple, repetitive procedures—freeing up human surgeons’ valuable time for more …

Researchers want robots to feel pain | The Verge

Researchers in Germany are developing a way for robots to feel pain, in the hopes that doing so will enable them to better protect humans. The researchers, from Leibniz University of Hannover, are working on an "artificial robot nervous system to teach …

Rethinking Knowledge in the Internet Age - Los Angeles Review of Books

The internet started out as the Information Highway, the Great Emancipator of knowledge, and as an assured tool for generating a well-informed citizenry. But, over the past 15 years, that optimism has given way to cynicism and fear — we …

Robots are doing more and more human jobs. We need a plan on how the majority of humans will survive when there is no work for them to do. How do we need to change our economy so that everyone benefits from the work robots are doing, not just the …

Robots are faster than we are. How long before we just race robots?

http://www.slashgear.com/puma-made-a-robotic-shoebox-to-help-runners-train-30438359/

Guns won’t protect us from the robots.

http://boingboing.net/2016/04/26/riot-control-robot-unveiled-in.html

Did we not learn anything from Windows? Security is a must.

Does a robot need AI or be self aware to be a robot?

Wikipedia

IBM Watson. AI or Not?

IBM Watson

Wikipedia

Google Now. AI or not?

Google Now

Wikipedia

Microsoft Cortana. AI or not?

Microsoft Cortana

Wikipedia

Amazon Alexa/Echo. AI or not?

Amazon Echo

Wikipedia

Apple’s personal assistant. AI or not?

Apple Siri

Wikipedia

Microsoft Research

Google said to be selling Boston Dynamics.

Marketwatch.com

Boston.com

What was wrong with the goals of the last one?

The real question is what is intelligence?

When AI becomes self aware will it like who we are?

We are the ones making the decisions, it’s not pretty.

We are all robots in one way or another. We all have goals and we all have constraints that we have to work within. There's nothing wrong with being a robot, we just have to accept it.

Bits of Cents — Disassembling the Dash

Disassembling the Dash On Thursday I got an email from Amazon saying I had been selected to try out two Dash buttons at zero cost. To be honest it as kind of surprising given that although we order from them plenty, I can’t …

Arduino IDE Becomes More Open, Less Snarky | Hackaday

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KIM-1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Remembering the good ole days. This was one of my first computers. I had to punch in the hex values into memory locations. It was the brains of my for Robot project. I was in high school back in about 1980.

The KIM-1 consisted of …

All About The JPEG #SaturdayMorningCartoons « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!

Our friends at Adafruit posted an article from SaturdayMorningCartoons explaining the JPG image format and how image compression works.

More info at: All About The JPEG #SaturdayMorningCartoons « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!

Finally! It has been over a week since I could access this site from my home ISP. Everything looked ok on the traceroute except the very last IP would not respond. No email, no ftp, no web. In fact for all 800+ websites on the same hosted server, they were …

Spark | Wi-Fi for Everything

Meet the Spark Core.

A tiny Wi-Fi development board that makes it easy to create internet-connected hardware. The Core is all you need to get started; power it over USB and in minutes you'll be controlling LEDs, switches and motors and collecting data from sensors over …

NEW PRODUCT – Rosie Revere, Engineer « adafruit industries blog

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Easy build: Make a bubble in a Q-tip cube

Everyone should make a square bubble.

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Agency Approvals Symbols

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MakerBot Replicator Mini Compact 3D Printer

New Leading-Edge Printers

At MakerBot, we’ve been making professional-quality 3D printers affordable and accessible since 2009. In that short time we’ve released four generations of 3D printers, helping unleash a worldwide 3D printing revolution in art and design, engineering and manufacturing, architecture …

▶ The Cubli: a cube that can jump up, balance, and 'walk' - YouTube

Everyone should see this.

More info at: ▶ The Cubli: a cube that can jump up, balance, and 'walk' - YouTube

Arcade/SpaceInvaders – Computer Acheology

Wow, this brings back memories! From the Z80 assembly language to the hardware specs. Those were the days.

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Blokify 3D Modeling Software | MAKE

Electronics Workshop Craft Science Home Art & Design Maker Pro SUBSCRIBE Projects Blog Magazine Videos Skill Builders Reviews Events Shop Forums Education Blokify 3D Modeling Software By Goli Mohammadi Posted 10/10/2013 @ 5:40 pm Category 3D Printing, General, Kids & Family Comments 0

Last month …

This is what a Filled-up Maker’s Notebook Looks Like

A two year journey of one editor's battered Maker's Notebook.

Read more on MAKE

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Every spaceship ever

Every spaceship ever. To size. Compiled by Dirk Loechel.

More info at: Every spaceship ever

EE Bookshelf: The International System of Units, 8th Edition

Have you ever wondered what the official SI unit for magnetic field strength is (hint: ampere per metre), or maybe kinematic viscosity (square metre per second), or perhaps the correct abbreviations or symbols for some specific SI unit or value?  The …

The Simpsons' secret formula: it's written by maths geeks | Television & radio | The Observer

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News US World Sports Comment Culture Business Money Environment Science Travel Tech Media Life & style Data Culture Television & radio The Simpsons The …

Teach kids programming — Medium

Updated September 15, 2013

2 min read Teach kids programming A collection of resources

I’ve been gathering the best resources to teach children & teens programming — books, environments, apps, courseware and games.

These resources are meant for teachers and parents who want to have their children …

Easy 6502 ebook (with a built-in emulator)

Easy 6502

Why 6502? Why not a useful assembly language, like x86? Well, I don’t think learning x86 is useful. I don’t think you’ll ever have to write assembly language in your day job – this is purely an academic exercise …

MAKE | Smartphone Servo

Electronics Workshop Craft Science Home Art & Design Maker Pro SUBSCRIBE Projects Blog Magazine Videos Skill Builders Reviews Events Shop Forums Education MAKE: PROJECTS Smartphone Servo By Kazuhisa “Kazu” Terasaki Category: Computers & Mobile, Electronics, Robotics Time Required: 30 minutesDifficulty: Easy Comments 2

Smartphones have become our primary interface …

Beautifully rendered electromagnetic radiation chart from 1944

Electromagnetic radiation infographic from 1944 is beautiful, informative

At some point in the last few decades, someone took a poster and stuffed it in an unused office at Lawrence Livermore National Labs (LLNL). The poster was made by the W.M Welch Scientific …

Cereal Box Robot

Think outside the cereal box to create an upcycled robot! Anyone who’s a fan of MAKE must, at a minimum, appreciate a good robot when they see it. So when there’s an easy way to create a robot from materials you have in your kitchen …

Retro Wooden Robot Nut Crackers

Matthias Zschaler designed two retro-styled wooden Nut Crackers for SUCK UK that look like robots. To operate them, the nut goes in the robot’s tummy and the key is turned to crack open the shell. They are available to purchase at SUCK UK.

…Robot …

Eleven iPad-centric schools to open in the Netherlands

Eleven schools in The Netherlands plan to replace blackboards, schedules and more with iPads. In fact, each student's entire educational career will hinge on Apple's revolutionary tablet device.

Scheduled to open this August, the so-called "Steve Jobs Schools" will host about 1 …

Robotic Machine Vision Software

RoboRealm® is an application for use in computer vision, image analysis, and robotic vision systems. Using an easy point and click interface RoboRealm simplifies vision programming! With an inexpensive USB webcam and the PC you already have you can now add machine vision to your robotic …

How-To: A Quick and Sturdy Wood Box

At some point we're all going to need to build a box. Whether it's to keep a tool safe, or build a project enclosure, knowing how to make a box that's a custom size really comes in handy.

Read the full article on …

Arduino Robot

\$275 from the MakerShed.

With the Arduino Robot, you can learn about electronics, mechanics, and software. It is a tiny computer on wheels. It comes with a number of of project examples you can easily replicate, and it is a powerful robotics platform that you can hack to …

Arduino - Robot

The Arduino Robot is the first official Arduino on wheels. The robot has two processors, one on each of its two boards. The Motor Board controls the motors, and the Control Board reads sensors and decides how to operate. Each of the boards is a full Arduino board …

MAKE | Introducing New Column from Arduino’s Massimo Banzi

Ask any maker what the hottest subjects are in DIY electronics these days, and odds are the first answer will be Arduino. Since the earliest boards were built in 2005 to enable students to run interactive design projects with open-source tools …

Sparki - The Easy Robot for Everyone! by ArcBotics — Kickstarter

Easy, affordable, feature packed Arduino robot. Comes w/ sensors motors and more. Great intro to programming/electronics/robots

New: Drag-and-Drop Block Programming!

We're partnering with MiniBloq to bring Drag-and-Drop programming to Sparki! Easy robot programming, bringing the age range down to …

RoboBrrd : Your DIY Educational Robotic Pet!

Another cool robot from RobotGrrl.

Buddy 4000 Your Fun Robot!

A classy robot chassis designed to express robot emotions with an artistic flair

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Site of J. Edgar Park

A cool video of some awesome robots by Jack Conte.

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#adafruit6secs - The Adafruit 6 second electronics film festival

The Adafruit 6 second electronics film festival! #adafruit6secs

Call For Entries: Announcing The Adafruit 6 second electronics film festival! Share your cool project in 6 seconds of video and win up to \$600 at the Adafruit store, with six runners up winning …

Lego's Mindstorms EV3 programmable robots have character - YouTube

The next generation of Lego's programmable robotics kit is teaches kids how to program, but also offers something for adult enthusiasts.

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HowStuffWorks "How Robots Work"

On the most basic level, human beings are made up of five major components:

A body structure
A muscle system to move the body structure 
A sensory system that receives information about the body and the surrounding environment
A power source to activate the muscles and …

Why your 8-year-old should be coding | VentureBeat

April 12, 2013 9:01 AM Jolie O'Dell

Learn-to-code startups abound these days, but one in particular is focusing on the very young and is having some success in elementary schools around the country — even underserved schools with no budgets for STEM but …

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The world just keeps on changing. Never bet against it.

Fraser Speirs - Blog - Teaching Programming with iOS and Amazon EC2

I just shut down the Amazon EC2 instance we've been using all school year, so I thought it was worth reflecting on. Last August, I wrote about my new approach …

When Did Intelligent Life Emerge in the Universe? » A Curious Mind

Figure 1. The Helix Nebula; the gaseous outer layers expelled by a dying star. The ejected material enriches the interstellar medium (from which new stars and planets form) with carbon. Credit: NASA, ESA, C. R. O’Dell (Vanderbilt University …

LEGO.com MINDSTORMS : News

Announcing LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 04/01/2013 Coming Fall 2013: LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Create and command robots that do what you want.

With LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 you can turn your LEGO creations into live robots that follow your every command. The new LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 set …

Jobs made Apple exciting, now it's just a company. Journalists are bored.

Now we are getting somewhere. This is really cool.

Dynamic Robot Manipulation – Brick throwing robot « adafruit industries blog

BigDog handles heavy objects. The goal is to use the strength of the legs and torso to help power motions of the arm. This sort of dynamic, whole-body approach is routinely used …

The ultimate robot!

Oreo Separator Machine #1 « adafruit industries blog

A detailed look into the complex world of Oreo separation- featuring music by my band, Anamanaguchi

Cool new way to program the NXT. Will have to follow this to see how it turns out...

Enchanting : Enchanting : Enchanting

What is Enchanting?

Enchanting is a tool to allow children an easy-to-understand way to program LEGO MINDSTORMS NXTrobots. It is based on Scratchand BYOB/Snap!, and powered by leJOS …

I just backed a Kickstarter project!

Next Generation LiveCode (Open Source) by RunRev Ltd — Kickstarter

LiveCode is like a next generation version of HyperCard. It is used to create #1 one app store apps, real-time flight booking systems and control satellites. It is used to create simple one off apps …

Can't wait to see Mark Frauenfelder at the science museum next week!

Celebrity Lecture Series | Fort Worth Museum of Science and History

February 28, 2013 Mark Frauenfelder The Maker Movement – 7 pm Adult \$12 Children (2-12)/Senior (65+) \$10.00

Mark Frauenfelder is the editor-in-chief of Make magazine, the leading …

Hans 555 Timer IC - Circuit Playground Plushie ID: 1022 - \$9.95 : Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits

Hans is the 'old man' of the group. He tends to be nervous and is often indecisive. Hans frequently changes his mind, and is a little fidgety (he oscillates) when he's …

Review: Marware Axis and MicroShell Folio iPad mini cases | 9to5Mac

Marware, one of the leading accessory makers for Apple’s mobile devices, has sent us two of their latest iPad mini cases for review. Both cases are unique in their own right, but both are built with versatility and quality …

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Handy.

Posted on December 6, 2012 by RobotGrrl

Last night was the final countdown for the RoboBrrd Indiegogo campaign, we surpassed our stretch goal!

Big thanks to all the new and old friends of RoboBrrd, for backing the project and/or spreading the word!

We will be keeping everyone in the …

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Help make it happen. Support the RoboBrrd campaign today!

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That's one amazing robot!

From Discovery Bad Astronomy Blog

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Finally getting around to turning on iTunes match. I only have about 4,000 songs in my library. It will be interesting to see how many match their database.

A great TED talk about the Arduino and open source hardware. Video

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Way cool.

For the past years, Apple has been showcasing the educational advantages of devices like Macs, iPhones and iPods on its Apple in Education website. Since the introduction of the iPad in 2010, however, the company has been making an effort to position the device as the best tool now available …

Get Started with Arduino and iOS

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Turn your iPhone or iPad into the hub of a distributed sensor network with the help of an Arduino microcontroller. For Objective-C programmers who like to experiment, Alasdair Allan's new video and related ebook explain the …

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Sounds like they will need a lot of robots!

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Hmmm... getting closer and closer to mainstream.

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Training for the Parallax Board of Education Shield for Arduino

I'm really liking the ability to embed processingjs right into a page.

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3D printing is here is is already changing how we think about manufacturing. The custom, one-up, goods industry is ready to explode!

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I still like the idea of STEM including Art (STEAM). I have a degree in computer science and have worked in large aerospace companies for 25 years and every day I wished that more people understand the fundamentals of art and how it impacts humans. We could …

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We are going to use this for the Boy Scout Robotics Merit Badge!

via techsavvyed.net

[STEM is one of those edu-acronyms that gets tossed out at large conferences, as models for new innovative schools, and a “catch all” for science and math stuff lately, yet it still seems to mystify many teachers. An informal poll of teachers in my district revealed that …

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What a great idea.

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Now we are talking. This looks great!

Here is a fun one I re-created from the good ole days.

Here is a short program that demonstrates using Processing.js. It is all built into modern browsers, no plug-ins required.

Check out this website I found at oldcomputermuseum.com

This takes me back. What a collection. I've owned hundreds of computers over the years. I wonder if I could think of them all.

By: http://studio.sketchpad.cc/

Adafruit has their new GPS module out. Looks great, good features and good price.

Check out this website I found at darpa.mil

I've always said that mobile robots will not be fully useful until they understand and can utilize momentum. We are finally on our way.

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Handy.

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Can't wait.

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I'm not colored blind, but I really like this app!

Give it five minutes Jason F. Mar 01

46 comments Latest by Gavin

A few years ago I used to be a hothead. Whenever anyone said anything, I’d think of a way to disagree. I’d push back hard if something didn’t fit my world-view.

It’s like …

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Very cool. I've been looking for a good way to teach programming on the iPad. Adding this to my to-do list.

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This is cool. A classroom from the ISS showing how different simple machines work on Earth and in the microgravity of space.

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This looks very interesting. I've been thinking of a way to get kids interested even faster. I will have to get one and try it out.

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Nice. This is the iron I use now. The difference the cord makes is astounding. It keeps the heat up and is light weight. Highly recommended.

Dear Mr. Kalil,

I cannot tell you how overjoyed I am that our Nation’s leaders have finally opened an intrigued eye to the blossoming Maker movement.  Your speech following the Maker Faire in New York was encouraging, exciting, and promising. It put a well deserved spotlight on the achievements …

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Wow, these are great videos. I'm not sure how I've not heard of them before.

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Not about robots, but without this kind of knowledge then the rest just doesn't matter.

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Control your Arduino, control the world with Hotkeys on your Mac.

via wayneandlayne.com

This is a great little project that I just completed. The programming is the cool part. You just go to their website and they have a little javascript page that you can type in your message. You set you Blinky to receive mode and it programs by …

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Hey, at least it is about robots.

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Very useful and just the beginning!

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Wow, this is real right now! We should all be learning how to design and print objects in 3D.

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Once you're ready then you can design your own printed circuit board.

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Not much is required to make and sell your own kits. Just get started!

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The Internet of Things is coming. Are you prepared?

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Hmmm... I wonder what I could do with a bunch of these?

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I've been waiting for their recommendation. This really looks like the one to get. Any electronics workshop should have one!

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Perfect when you just can't wait to take something apart.

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So, it is already bigger that I realized. Production parts are already being flown on aircraft.

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Not a robot, but very cool just the same.

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This is a great 8 minute introduction to FIRST robotics and what it is trying to accomplish. I agree with everything he says here. You can't …

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Wow, just wow! Taking control of the physical world is here.

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Combine your LEGO sets to create other sets.

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You should always know which way is up.

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LEGO Education. They offer great programs for all kids. They are teaching kids how to make a difference in their future.

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Vote for your favorite Internet of Things open platform.

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Great ideas. Nice to see the Internet of Things (IoT) growing so quickly.

Robotic Open Platform via Erin…

Robotic Open Platform (ROP) aims to make hardware designs of robots available under an Open Hardware license  to the entire robotic community. It provides CAD drawings, electric schemes and the required documentation to build their own robot. In the near future, standard electromechanic interfaces between …

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Document your prototype, share them with others, teach electronics and create PCB layouts.

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It keeps moving forward.

via arduino.cc

Arduino 1.0 is here!!! It's all the rage, everyone is talking. Go take a look and make something today.

Well my niece, brother and dad found an old picture of the first robot I built back in the 1980's. I was still in high school. It was powerful enough the kids could ride it around the house.

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All the Make: books you can shake a stick at. A nice find by my brother!

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This is why I do it. It is very important for kids to understand. STEM is their best future and the best future for America.

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Wow, now that's a robot.

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Kits, kits and more kits. Find one you like and build it. There is no better time than now to get started.

from The Cyberiad

One day Trurl the constructor put together a machine that could create anything starting with n. When it was ready, he tried it out, ordering it to make needles, then nankeens and negligees, which it did, then nail the lot to narghiles filled with nepenthe and numerous …

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Great introduction to the tools and techniques required to make a good solder connection.

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Way cool.

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A light we can all love.

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Our kids can no longer expect to work for a large corporation when they grow up. All of the benefits that used to be there are quickly disappearing. We need to be teaching our kids how to be Entrepreneurs.

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Now that's a comic book I really like.

Arduino \@radioshack – the official post from Radioshack congrats \@arduinoteam

The Shack® Blog – We Listened: Arduino Is Coming via DP.

A few months ago, we reached out to our community and asked what DIY parts and pieces you wished you could find at your local RadioShack store. We were overwhelmed with …

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This is what it is all about. Letting the kids experience learning first hand that does not include sitting at a desk and being lectured.

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Photo: Randi Silberman Klett

The Arduino core team [from left]—David Cuartielles, Gianluca Martino, Tom Igoe, David Mellis, and Massimo Banzi—get together at Maker Faire in New York City.

The picturesque town of Ivrea, which straddles the blue-green Dora Baltea River in northern Italy, is famous for its underdog …

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Video archive for Ask An Engineer

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Wow.

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Nice calculator. Should keep this around just in case...

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Now that is cool.

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Good introduction video on using a breadboard for your electronic experiments.

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This looks so cool. It is just very pricy. Not sure I could afford this for the kids I'm working with.

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My favorite product of the day. My new PanaVise PV Jr. It is perfect for holding circuit boars while soldering. Just received two from Amazon.

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Here is the one to get for the Boy Scouts Robotics Merit Badge.

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I love the idea of controlling robots with cell phones. This just seems very cool. I would like to build a robot with an iPhone or iPod touch as its micro controller.

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All the details you need to get started on the Boy Scouts Robotics merit badge. I hope to get all the kits and documentation ready and have a scout day at the house.

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Getting Started with Arduino

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This is a fantastic book about Robot competitions and how important the skills learned by the kids are valuable throughout life and to the future of our country. I highly recommend it to everyone interested in robots, education and building a strong country.

Just ordered this basic kit. I've been wanting to play with Arduino for a long time now. I think the boys will get a kick out of programming hardware and seeing what it can do. This is so much better than building plastic models that don't do anything after all …

These look like fun, especially when you control them with your iPhone or Android device.

Desk Pets

When I was but a little teen, around 1980, I built my first robot. It was based on the book "How to Build a Computer Controlled Robot" by Tod Loofbourrow. Of course it was very clumsy those days, but it was programmable and you could sit on it and it …

Welcome to Robots D11. I am a robots enthusiast and I hope you enjoy what you find here. Please join me on my quest to build and collect the best robots around.