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GoBox Raspberry Pi Robot Subscription Kit: Maker 1

Dexter Industries makes educational electronics and robotics kits for all levels of experience. With its new GoBox subscription service, the company aims to be more involved in the progress of robotics newbies, particularly children. The heart…

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Elements 4D Augmented Reality Cubes: Virtual Building Blocks

The Elements iPad app is one of the best alternatives to the traditional periodic table. But a mobile augmented reality company called DAQRI is working on something more interactive and intuitive. The company calls it Elements…

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Discovery Channel Crashes 727 for TV Show

None of us ever want to experience an airplane crash first-hand, but you’ll soon have the opportunity to learn what happens inside and outside a commercial airliner when it does crash, thanks to the Discovery Channel.…

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Cubelets: Amazing Robotic Building Blocks

These things look awesome. What you have here are building blocks that let you create cool robots by connecting sensors, motors, and feedback devices. The robots can even interact with the world around them. You won’t…

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Robot Infographic: Know Your Future Masters

The guys at Online Schools scoured the Internet to come up with a lengthy but entertaining infographic about robots. It contains a lot of quiz show-type trivia, like the fact that the earliest known robot was…

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What You Write is What You Get: Scribblenauts in Real Life

Made by Steven Zhou and Syed Olmer Gilani of the National University of Singapore’s Interactive Multimedia Lab, What You Write Is What You Get (WYWIWYG) is a visual way of learning about language. Just like 5th…

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Gakken Gmc-4: 4-Bit Microcomputer Kit Won’T Play Crysis

Sure, you might have just gone off and bought yourself a brand new 27-Inch iMac this week, but if that system seems like overkill for your needs, you could can always go to the opposite extreme.…

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Manual Digital Clock Makes You Change the Time by Hand Every Minute

When I first saw this clock design, I was scratching my head wondering why you’d want a clock that doesn’t keep time at all. After all, who wants a clock that you have to manually change…

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Wikireader: the World’S Most Semi-Trusted Encyclopedia at Your Fingertips

Don’t you just love Wikipedia? Whether you’re a high school student writing a paper on some obscure old or dead person, a tech blogger who knows nothing about tech, or a lowly prankster who wants people…

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Concert Hands: Watch as Your Hands Learn to Play the Piano

Want to learn to play the piano – or at least play a song on the piano – without having to deal with creepy or boring instructors? Then you might want to try Concert Hands. It’s…

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Virtual and Literal Periodic Table Are Bursting With Awesomeness. and Elements.

Theodore Gray is one of the founders of technical computing software company Wolfram Research. But we’re not going to talk about that aspect of his life. You see Gray needed a conference table for his office.…

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Technorobot: the Paper Automaton

Sure, you could go spend hundreds of dollars on one of those fancy robot kits, or you could be a cheap bastard like me, and pick up one of these. At just 12 bucks, you can’t…

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Tag: Educational

GoBox Raspberry Pi Robot Subscription Kit: Maker 1

Elements 4D Augmented Reality Cubes: Virtual Building Blocks

Discovery Channel Crashes 727 for TV Show

Cubelets: Amazing Robotic Building Blocks

Robot Infographic: Know Your Future Masters

What You Write is What You Get: Scribblenauts in Real Life

Gakken Gmc-4: 4-Bit Microcomputer Kit Won’T Play Crysis

Manual Digital Clock Makes You Change the Time by Hand Every Minute

Wikireader: the World’S Most Semi-Trusted Encyclopedia at Your Fingertips

Concert Hands: Watch as Your Hands Learn to Play the Piano

Virtual and Literal Periodic Table Are Bursting With Awesomeness. and Elements.

Technorobot: the Paper Automaton

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