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Today at work I got a bunch, well 6 (more are back-ordered) Protosnap Lilypad Development Boards and I wanted to test them out before I p...

I took some stepper motors out of some old printers to play with. Newer printers seem to use DC motors, but I love finding steppers becaus...

I've been trying out the Neopixel Ring-24 , a ring of 24 RGB LEDs easy to plug in to an Arduino. Instead of using the Adafruit neopixe...

Version 1 Version 2 I decided to make a robot that follows a wall on its right side. I have an  NXShield-Dx , a shield that sits on ...

UPDATE 2/1/17: This was great while it lasted. But it seems Google no longer provides a hosted link for html pages in Drive. Too bad. Makin...

   So many rich block-based programming environments have become available during the last several years. The release of Scratch into th...

I first wrote this post a year ago. This past year I revised a couple things as I did the project again, and the revisions will be noted. W...

This project was quite long in development, more than a year, in fact! I learned a lot about technology design so the process is worth recou...

Some of the most successful tech integration collaborations happen at unexpected times. Our 5th grade English teacher, Jenny Kirsch, asked...

Our 5th grade history teacher was doing a study of Vietnam with her class and wondered if her students could make and print pagodas. After...