3D Printers with Kids – Part 1
My middle son shares my passion for all things technical. He begged for a LEGO Mindstorms robot when he was 7, and though we held out until he was 8, …
Scratch 2.0 at CoderDojo LA
My 11-year old and I attended an event held by CoderDojo LA at the Google LA offices this morning. The CoderDojo movement is a free, non-profit aimed at turning young …
MPU-6050: DMP Data from i2cdevlib
In March, I posted on experimenting with the MPU-6050 IMU chip (mounted in a GY-521 breakout board). It seems that many people are using the MPU-6050, and I wanted to …
Remote Raspberry Pi Access
I’m back to playing around with the Raspberry Pi. Right now I’m considering webcam projects, and am looking for interesting subjects around the house. The goldfish have been seeing a …
Arduino Without Computers (in 45 minutes or less!)
This Saturday I’ll be running an Arduino workshop for teenagers and young adults at the Young Adult Innovate Conference put on by Advance LA. The conference organizers were looking for …
Finding Fritzing
I’ll be running a hands-on Arduino workshop this Saturday, where the attendees will be assembling simple circuits and connecting them to an Arduino board. Recently I’ve been trying to write …
Wii-Nunchuck Controlled Servo Motors
My previous project explored the accelerometer and gyroscope sensors in an MPU-6050 IMU chip, and showed how the data from both sensors could be combined for greater overall accuracy. …
Gyroscopes and Accelerometers on a Chip
My last two blog entries discussed demonstrations of gyroscopes and angular momentum conservation at our school’s science fair. One of the demonstrations I put together takes a look at how …
Gyroscopes / LEGO / Mindstorms
Buidling the Anyway NXT Scooter
As I mentioned in my last post, my sons’ school had a science fair last week where I ran a demonstration involving angular momentum and gyroscopes. In researching the use of …
Fun with Angular Momentum
Last weekend my children’s school had a science fair which they called “STEAM Day”, for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math. It turned out to be a engaging and dynamic …