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My son has a piece of hambergite --I'm pretty sure that's what it is--and I've been wanting to give it special lighting for a wh...

Inspired by these mechanical movements animations , I thought it would be fun to figure out how to make some gears out of one of my favorite...

I love this quote from Len Shustek's article for The Computer Museum on MacPaint and QuickDraw: How do you measure programmer product...

I have a student, 11th grader, working on one of the most complex tech projects ever. Her English teacher gave an open-ended project assig...

The last time I taught my high school robotics class I used RobotC to program TETRIX servos. The RobotC API provides the functions servoVal...

We made Brushbots @hewittschool in our Maker Club! https://t.co/rht0H8WPp1 — Erik Nauman (@openblackboard) October 31, 2013

As an exercise I've written a Music class that makes writing NXT melodies easier by allowing note values to be passed instead of frequen...

I'm working on a save feature for a web app for drawing musical compositions . I want to make sure you can save your drawn composition a...

There is no best text to use in a computer science course, but I've found two that I'm really happy with for the high school robotic...

The short story here is you can use INPUT_PULLUP when coding switches in Arduino but this is not available at the time of this post in the A...