USC Viterbi K-12 STEM Center hosts Robotics Education Week Open House Apr. 5-9, 20213…2…1…Showtime! The end of the countdown on the USC Viterbi K-12 STEM Center website marked the beginning of the 2021 Robotics Education Week Open House.From April 5-9, the STEM center ran 40 free events that…
The Inkplate line of devices are programmable, WiFi-ready E Ink displays that can be used for a variety of applications. With prices starting at $99, open hardware designs, and screens that are recycled from older Kindle eReaders, the project ticks a lot of boxes for hardware hackers looking for…
Skip to content ATMegaZero ESP32- S2, showing optional color-coded 40-pin header (top) The ATMegaZero ESP32-S2 is currently being funded with a campaign on GroupGets, and it’s a microcontroller board modeled after the Raspberry Pi Zero’s form factor. That means instead of the embedded Linux system most of us…
ATMegaZero ESP32- S2, showing optional color-coded 40-pin header (top) The ATMegaZero ESP32-S2 is currently being funded with a campaign on GroupGets, and it’s a microcontroller board modeled after the Raspberry Pi Zero’s form factor. That means instead of the embedded Linux system most of us know and love,…
Apr. 30—POTTSVILLE — The Nativity BVM High School STEM team is entering its self-watering, high-tech eco-garden into a statewide competition this week.The project features an irrigation system that collects rainwater for a fruit and vegetable garden at the school. The students developed a soil moisture sensor that detects…
10:55 am April 30, 2021 By Julian Horsey A new project soon to be available from the Crowd Supply website is the open source, programmable two-key mechanical keypad with backlighting, taking the form of the ANAVI Macro Pad 2. The tiny open source 2% mechanical keyboard/keypad is equipped…
10:02 am April 30, 2021 By Julian Horsey Following on from the successful launch of the Inkplate 6 and Inkplate 10 -paper displays, the Inkplate 6PLUS display will soon be available to purchase from the Crowd Supply website offering a powerful touchscreen open hardware e-paper display that can…
For many of us the passing of the floppy disk is unlamented, but there remains a corps of experimenters for whom the classic removable storage format still holds some fascination. The interface for a floppy drive might have required some complexity back in the days of 8-bit microcomputers,…
Flexibility has been the mode of operating in so many ways during the pandemic. This has certainly been true for teachers. Plans made in 2020 may just be taking shape now, more than a year later. It may seem like a time warp of sorts and it is…
Scientific equipment is notoriously expensive, and for schools, there are often monopolies on which suppliers can provide it. Eben Farnworth wanted to do something about this problem. His design for an open flow meter only costs around $60 USD, which pales in comparison to the typical price tag of…
