Our august 2019 Issue
Fritzing
FOR THIS PROJECT YOU WILL NEED An LED A 220 Ohm resistor (Red-Red-Brown-Gold) Male to male jumper wires…
Citizen Science Projects
While it’s easy to leave science to scientists and experts, it’s also easy to forget we live in…
Jordan Reeves and Her Glitter Cannon
Just because you’re only 13 doesn’t mean you have to be limited in your projects. Jordan Reeves is…
August 2019 News Wire
BASIC Gets an Historical Marker Before the Python programming language, in 1964, two math professors at Dartmouth College…
Games before CD and HDMI
If you own a games console, or you play games on your PC, you’ll know about CDs, cartridges,…
How do Driverless Cars See?
There’s a lot of buzz these days about cars which can drive by themselves. It’s the first step…
What’s a Day Zero Virus?
The words “zero-day virus” may seem very odd, as if a virus is some sort of zombie outbreak!…
Creepy Faces in SketchUp
SketchUp is a free and fun program for 3D modeling. You can use SketchUp to design just about…
Scratch Explorables
A chance encounter with a virtual tornado recently sparked a new perspective on media and student engagement for…
STEAM Lab Jr
A typical preschooler’s schedule is packed with a variety of activities. Think you can’t squeeze in coding and…
Idris
Who likes types in programming languages? If you’ve used typed languages like C or Java you might think…
Scratch and Motion
Hi Scratchers! In this issue, we’re going to talk about movement. It’s pretty easy to get started with…
Types
You may have heard the phrases “statically typed” and “dynamically typed” to describe programming languages: static typing means…
Graphics Cards
If you’re a gamer, you may be familiar with the idea of a graphics card. The graphics card…
foo bar baz
Take a look at the pseudocode below: Can you guess what the following code will produce: foo(“Eva“)? Since…
Dogfooding
Dogfooding is short for “eating your own dog food”. As a software company or developer, this means using…
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
People have changed the world around them, and thought about how to change the world, since the start…
al-Jazari Automatons
If Ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari were alive today, we would call him a maker. Originally from modern day Cizre…