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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.
Kits, kits and more kits. Find one you like and build it. There is no better time than now to get started.
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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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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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Nice calculator. Should keep this around just in case...
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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.