Wearable SkoBots full of STEAM and Vanishing Indigenous Languages

The STEAM Connection Danielle Boyer and mentee Vinaya Gunasekar build robots

[Danielle Boyer] is Ojibwe: Sault Ste Marie Tribe and passionate about preserving vanishing indigenous languages. She’s invented a shoulder-worn talking companion, called a SkoBot, to teach STEAM to children through …read more Continue reading Wearable SkoBots full of STEAM and Vanishing Indigenous Languages

ESP32 Projects from Northwestern University’s Embedded Electronics Class

A grid of 5 3D Printed projects with ESP-32 microcontroller boards

Northwestern University’s Embedded Electronics Class delivered a bumper crop of ESP-32 projects this year. The student teams recorded their progress on hackaday.io with project descriptions, logs, BOMs, diagrams, photos, and …read more Continue reading ESP32 Projects from Northwestern University’s Embedded Electronics Class

Robot Repeatedly Rearranges Remnants in the Round

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Sisyphus is an art installation by [Kachi Chan] featuring two scales of robots engaged in endless cyclic interaction. Smaller robots build brick arches while a giant robot pushes them down. …read more Continue reading Robot Repeatedly Rearranges Remnants in the Round

Know which way the wind blows, whether weather boosts your mood

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As a quantified-self experiment, [Ayan] has tracked several daily habits and moods for a couple of years and discovered some insights. Too much coffee is followed by anxiety while listening …read more Continue reading Know which way the wind blows, whether weather boosts your mood

PlottyBot: A DrawBot That Plots a Lot

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Fire up those 3D printers because if you’re like us, you’ll want your own PlottyBot. Still, have a pile of “thank you notes” to write from recent winter holiday gift …read more Continue reading PlottyBot: A DrawBot That Plots a Lot