How Middle Schoolers Reinvented the First Text Message System
Looking at historical inventions is a way for students to interact with technology and understand it.
Technology
40,000 Balloons Compose This 5-Story Indoor Seascape
The Amazing Air-Filled Under-Sea Adventure used more than 40,000 balloons to fill the building’s five-story atrium.
IFTTT Adds a Channel for Makers
The new Maker Channel recently added by IFTTT means the services is suddenly accessible, and useable, from the Arduino and Raspberry Pi.
Your Next Hardware Project Might Be Biological, and Other News from the Solid Conference
O’Reilly Media held its annual Solid conference this week in San Francisco. It’s an annual show covering “Hardware, Software & the Internet of Things.” We found it eye-opening, informative, and occasionally controversial. Here’s some of what we heard at this year’s show: Synthetic Biology Joichi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, explained that code is now being […]
LittleBits Receives $44.2M in Funding, Names New Key Hires
LittleBits, the New York-based open source hardware startup that produces modular snap-together circuitry kits, announced this morning that it has raised just over $44 million in its Series B funding from DFJ Growth as well as Morgan Stanley, Grishin Robotics, and Wamda Capital, among others. This is one of the largest rounds to come out of […]
What’s Inside: Anatomy of a Monowheel
Monowheels, by their very nature, are fairly simple machines; after all they only have one wheel! They work by driving a seated base around the inside of a circular track to push it forward — you might think of them as a perpetual roller coaster.
Turn Your iMac Box into an Incredible Drawbot
Learn how to take an Apple iMac computer box and recycle it into a computer-controlled robot that can draw artwork.
