Mirobot—a WiFi robotics kit at Maker Faire UK
The Mirobot, the brain child of Ben Pirt, brings long buried memories of the Logo Turtle flooding back. It's a Wi-Fi robot designed kit help children learn about technology and programming.
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The Mirobot, the brain child of Ben Pirt, brings long buried memories of the Logo Turtle flooding back. It's a Wi-Fi robot designed kit help children learn about technology and programming.
Tropism Well: A Tall Drink of Water
Instead of cricking your neck to drink from a water fountain, what if the fountain cricked its neck for you? Tropism Well is an interactive sculpture that senses when someone is near and bows to pour water into a glass.
Google pumps cash into UK classrooms, will buy Arduino, Raspberry Pi sets for kids
Eric Schmidt has said that Google will make cash available through its investment into Teach First to buy Raspberry Pi and Arduino units for British schoolchildren. He was at the UK's Science Museum to talk about Mountain View's partnership with the charity, which puts top university graduates into schools to teach disadvantaged kids. The Android-maker wrote a cheque to fund over 100 places on the scheme, aiming to get bright computer scientists to reintroduce engineering principles to pupils. Mr. Schmidt hoped that with the right support, kits like the Raspberry Pi would do for this generation what the BBC Micro did three decades ago.
Google pumps cash into UK classrooms, will buy Arduino, Raspberry Pi sets for kids originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 24 May 2012 05:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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