Google Makes Lego Even Cooler
A partnership between Google and Lego has ushered in a new age of virtual block-play: Build with Chrome.
Robots: What’s Google up to?
Google is acquiring robotics companies. Where are they headed? Take a look at who they bought and where it might lead them.
We Want Your World Maker Faire Photos!
World Maker Faire New York is on all this weekend in beautiful Corona, Queens. We love to see the makers, and we love to see our readers, and we love to see folks who have never been fall in love with the faire and the maker experience.
Google’s Coder Teaches Web Basics with Raspberry Pi
The folks at Google’s Creative Lab took the wraps off of Coder this week. It’s a “free, open source project that turns a Raspberry Pi into a simple platform that educators and parents can use to teach the basics of building for the web.”
The sky is the Limit for Google’s new Project Loon
Recently kids at Maker Camp witnessed a live balloon launch from Google. We can’t help but wonder if Google’s Project Loon will ignite further interest in the DIY and Maker community to unlock new potential for high altitude balloons and what you can do with them. This is an exciting time where space has never been more accessible and it seems that high altitude balloons is one way to get there.
Teardown of Google Glass
A beautifully presented and detailed teardown of Project Glass by Scott Torborg and Star Simpson. With no idea what lay ahead they took apart, and then put back together, their Glass Explorer Edition.
The Road to the I/O Sensor Network
The long tale of the slippery path taking Alasdair Allan, Kipp Bradford, Julie Steele and Rob Faludi to Google I/O to build a distributed sensor network that turned into the talk of the conference.
