Creating a Touchless 3D Tracking Interface with your Arduino
A clever use of the Arduino to create a very simple touchless 3D tracking interface. Could be a good project for an after school club.
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Electronics
Challenges of Getting to Mars
A great video outlining the difficulty in landing the NASA Curiosity Rover on Mars. It is mentioned in the video that it took over 500,000 lines of code to program the landing procedure.
Electronics
Electronic ‘LEGO’
Ayah Bdeir is an engineer and an artist. She has developed an open source system called littleBits of preassembled, modular circuits that snap together with magnets. It is similar in idea to LEGO, but
KS2
Raspberry Pi on CBBC
CBBC recently made a short video introducing the Raspberry Pi. Worth showing to younger students if you plan to purchase them for your school (if you can get your hands on any!).
GCSE
Inside Foxconn: How the iPad is made
An interesting video was uploaded to Youtube yesterday showing how the iPad in production in China. Certainly worth showing to your classes.
News
Google X: Project Glass
Earlier this month, Google released a video showing their idea of the future in Project Glass. The video shows somebody waking up and, through a first person perspective, follows them throughout thei
News
Android PC on USB Stick
At Mobile World Congress 2012, a Norway-based company called FXI Technologies has made its Cotton Candy — a tiny computer the size of a chewing gum packet — available for pre-order.