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Animated papercraft explanations

CommonCraft has a neat way of explaining complex ideas. They use a simple format of paper cutouts and figures with a voiceover. Recently, there has been a bunch of buzz about Twitter, and a number of references have been made to their work explaining how Twitter works. Here they explain Google Documents: There are so […]

Making do with compujunk

Making do with compujunk

Travelyn Russell was not the most computer savvy teacher in the building. Then she found herself in her new classroom, a computer room with some antiquated equipment. The keyboards were pre USB, you probably remember the old mac or pc keyboards with fragile little pins that carried the data and power of the keyboard to […]

Styrobots for school

Styrobots for school

From the MAKE Flickr photo pool RobotGrrl is making and selling these bright little bots to raise money for robotic education – This is a Styrobot that I created. It’s a form of a BristleBot, but it uses a pipecleaner instead to vibrate and jiggle around. It’s really cute as the googley eyes move all […]