Memory, Drives, and More Computer Upgrades on Sale at Amazon Today
Today, there are some serious deals on memory (the 16Gb DDR3 memory above is just $80 – that’s $5 per gig!), SSDs, tower cases, keyboards, monitors, and more.
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Category: Engineering
9 Awesome New Gadget Kickstarter Projects This Week
A portable midi controller and a laser scanner that plugs into your phone are just a couple of the amazing new gadget projects we found on Kickstarter this week!
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3 Days With the 3rd Generation Cube
The folks at 3D Systems have sent me the 3rd generation of their Cube 3D printer to play with for a month. I’ve had the machine up and running for three days now, and want to report on my early impressions.
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The Science of Becoming a Math Person
What caught my ear wasn’t the fact that a young, hipsterish guy struggled with subtraction Captchas; it was the fact that he excused it, saying, “Hey, I’m not a numbers person…”
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Emergency Water Purifiers for Family Safety on Sale Today
It’s time to update your emergency preparedness kit.
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8 Awesome New Gadget Kickstarter Projects This Week
From carbon fiber skateboards to 4k action cams, the projects this week will blow your mind and empty your pocket!
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A.I. Research Mines 'Minecraft' to Mimic Human Learning
“The whole of ‘Minecraft’ is what we refer to as ‘A.I. complete.’ If you can do all of ‘Minecraft’ you could solve anything,” says Brown University researcher.
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10 Awesome New Gadget Kickstarter Projects This Week
We love gadgets, and the best place to see raw new ideas is Kickstarter. Here are 10 new ones that popped up this week.
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Kickstarter Alert: Keyboard.io Heirloom-Grade Keyboard
A keyboard warrior’s dream keyboard. Sculpted from hardwood, enhanced with mechanical switches, and custom-crafted keycaps, this keyboard can find a place in any geek’s computer setup.
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Kickstarter by a Kid: Kevo Is a Simple and Affordable Vacuum Former
Ted Brull, a young inventor from Kansas City, has a Kickstarter project to promote his vacuum forming tool.
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3 Battery Innovations That Could Change Everything (or not)
Developing a better, more efficient battery for increasingly connected technology is a real “killer app” that will change the game dramatically.
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Vive la Kickstarter! New Gadget Projects From France and More
As of this week, France is on Kickstarter and bringing some très bon gadget projects to the world.
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‘Spare Parts’ Arrives on DVD
‘Spare Parts’ shows that ingenuity, passion, and teamwork can overcome almost any obstacle in this movie from Pantelion and Lionsgate Home Entertainment now on DVD and Digital HD.
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10 Awesome New Gadget Kickstarter Projects This Week
The innovation continues with 10 all new gadget projects on Kickstarter this week.
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Understanding How Things Work From the Inside With ‘Explain 3D’
Do you remember books like “The Way Things Work” or “How things work”? These books were best-sellers and helped a lot of people understand how things work. They sold millions of copies and taught countless people. Now, ‘Explain 3D’ brings those kinds of books to your mobile devices, and delivers the future of learning how things work.
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Final Hours: PancakeBot Kickstarter
The first time I saw the PancakeBot in action, I was hooked. It was at the 2012 Maker World Faire in New York and it was just fascinating to watch in action. Voluntold by his kids that he needed to create a robot that could print in pancake batter, Miguel had created a machine that actually prints in pancake batter.
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Kickstarter Review: MudWatt Getting Dirty With STEM
MudWatt is a microbial fuel cell kit that is intended to teach and spark an interest in energy, biology, physics, chemistry, and engineering across a wide-range of ages.
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Tech vs. Global Poverty: Berkeley Lab’s To-Do List
“Find a need and fill it” is common advice usually given to budding entrepreneurs and inventors, but it’s not often that someone hands you a concise list of needs to fill. A new report from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Institute for Globally Transformative Technologies does just that. So how do we start crossing things off of that list?
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Acer Switch 11 DIY Tablet Stand
As part of Acer’s Seize The Idea contest I’ve been looking around the house at my half finished DIY projects and thinking of innovative ways to use one of the Acer products to finally wrap a few of them up. Since nearly of all my recent projects involve one or both of my 3D printers, it seems fitting that I should take this opportunity to solve a little control issue I’ve been having.
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10 Cool New Kickstarter Gadget Projects This Week
10 more all-new, all-awesome gadget projects on Kickstarter this week!
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14 Tools to Turn Game-Obsessed Kids into Genuine Game Designers
When you look at your kids playing video games, you might worry they’re wasting time and energy passively staring at a screen and pressing buttons. But what if their play time was actually a creative outlet that fostered their imaginations?
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Batman and Aliens Meet the Real World: GeekDad Interviews Nate Ball
I spoke recently to uber-geek and new dad Nate Ball about his inventions, his books, and his role in helping a new generation of makers get inspired about engineering. We didn’t get to discuss his beatboxing, but you’ll find a link to his Ted X talk on that here also.
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11 New Gadget Kickstarters You Want to See (and Back)
Here are 11 cool new tech projects that have launched on Kickstarter. Check them out!
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How to Build an Impossible Woven Box With Keva Planks
With no glue and no connectors, how would you go about building this cube?
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Dancing LEDs Promises Maker Christmas and Hacker New Year
What do you get when you hang a Christmas tree with 4,000 LEDs connected to a Teensy board? In the hands of Austin maker and electrical engineer Jarrod Eliason, you get, well, you get this…
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Holiday Science: How to Win the Thankgiving Wishbone Pull
Engineers at the University of Michigan do the science, and demonstrate all the tactical know-how you need to ensure victory this Thanksgiving when faced with the wishbone break challenge.
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Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer… Psych
Offended in more ways than one, GeekMom Samantha Cook takes a look at the “Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer” problem.
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To Catch a Comet: PBS Documentary About Rosetta
You may have heard the amazing news last week that the European Space Agency successfully landed a probe on a comet. This week as part of its “Think Wednesday” programming, PBS will broadcast To Catch a Comet, an hour-long, in-depth documentary about the the mission and how the ESA managed to land the Philae lander on an icy rock hurtling through space.
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Big Hero 6 Challenge Asks Kids What Big Problem They Want to Solve
In anticipation of the release of Big Hero 6, Disney has teamed with partners XPRIZE, LittleBits, FIRST LEGO League, and the USPTO to create a contest for kids.
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Boulder, Colorado Invaded, Overrun by Makers, Hackers, Ne’er-Do-Wells!
Whether here. there or elsewhere, let’s put some tools in our kids’ hands and get the Ziploc bags ready.
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