What I Learned at Maker Faire: Girls are Not Afraid of Electronics
One of the most amazing things I saw at World Maker Faire New York were all the electronic fashions and designs. When I was in school, girls were still required to take sewing to pass junior high. The...
View ArticleTEDActive Makers Hack Art, Urbanization, and Kinetic Energy
TED is an annual, global idea conference. TEDActive is the arm of the TED conference that engages thinkers and doers in projects centered on the TED Prize. What happens when an artist, an engineer, an...
View ArticleCaine’s Amazing Arcade
Caine Monroy is a 9-year-old boy with a giant imagination. Inside his father’s auto parts store, he built an entire game arcade… out of cardboard. He fashioned a claw game out of an s-hook and a...
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Inventor Mitch Altman, Electronics Jedi
Long, flowing hair and an air of supreme confidence emanates from Mitch Altman, inventor of TV-B-Gone, as he enters the 'Dark Side' stage at the 2012 Orlando Mini Maker Faire on Saturday, May 27 2012....
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tINDIE: Like Etsy For Electronic Tinkerers
Etsy-like site for electronics tinkerers is here! The post tINDIE: Like Etsy For Electronic Tinkerers appeared first on GeekMom.
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Raspberry Pi Launches Summer Programming Competition for Kids
Raspberry Pi, the new credit-card sized and moderately-priced computer, is announcing a summer programming competition for kids. If you're a kid under 18, write a program for Raspberry Pi that...
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Geeking Out With the Kids in Pittsburgh
Did you know that Pittsburgh is the perfect place for GeekKids? In a single day we crammed in two great museums for kids, the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh and the Carnegie Science center. Just...
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Take Caine’s Cardboard Challenge
Remember Caine, the 9-year-old of cardboard arcade fame? I can't forget Caine. The creativity that he showed in making his own cardboard arcade has rubbed off on kids all over the world, including big...
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SparkTruck, the Educational Build-Mobile: A Retrospective Tale
I often hear that the educational system is broken, but what I see is a lot of us waiting around for someone else to fix it. Luckily, there was a group of grad students from the Institute of Design at...
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Mothership HackerMoms: Where Hackerspace Meets Motherhood
I have searched high and low for a space or group where my particular brand of crazy would be welcomed; the kind of crazy that always has dirt under her fingernails, paint on her pants, glue in her...
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Landfill Harmonic: Crafting Garbage Into Musical Instruments in Asunción,...
Children of garbage dump workers play instruments repurposed from trash. The post Landfill Harmonic: Crafting Garbage Into Musical Instruments in Asunción, Paraguay appeared first on GeekMom.
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Review: Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred: Seriously Geeky Stuff to Make with Your Kids
If you want to spend 2013 with practical hands-on learning experiences, this is is a treasure trove of ideas. Better yet, they're all cheap ideas that you can do without buying a gigantic robotics kit...
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