Let Me Turn My Ears Up

Let Me Turn My Ears Up.  S.T.E.A.M. Power Podcast #14.  (Click to Listen) The Brain and the Fountain of Youth Searching for Gravity Waves Bug Eye Camera Lenses 3D Printed Cyborg Appendages For more tech news and how-to’s visit the blog or follow along on Twitter @mbparks.  Or listen on iTunes. Music by Halloween, available at http://freemusicarchive.org/Copyright: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike…

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Let Me Turn My Ears Up

S.T.E.A.M. Power Podcast #14. http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/STEAM_0014_4MAY2013.mp3 The Brain and the Fountain of Youth Searching for Gravity Waves Bug Eye Camera Lenses 3D Printed Cyborg Appendages For more tech news and how-to’s visit the blog or follow along on Twitter @mbparks.  Or listen on iTunes. Music by Halloween, available at http://freemusicarchive.org/ Copyright: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States

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That Sweet “Taxel” Feeling!

S.T.E.A.M. Power Podcast #13. http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/STEAM_0013_27APR2013.mp3 Japan Gets 2Gbps Internet Internet Provider Competition in the USA   1  |  2 Did Mars ever have an Earth-like atmosphere? Energy Demand and Nest Giving Robots Touch Battery Breakthroughs Saturn in Opposition For more tech news and how-to’s visit the blog or follow along on Twitter @mbparks.  Or listen on iTunes. Music by Halloween,…

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Homebrewed Arduino to Web Datalogger

I’ve been a hardware hacker mostly, and when I write software it is usually low-level code used to control microcontrollers.  But lately I’ve been dabbling in the much more sexy world of web app design.  I’ve been learning (slowly) all the various tools out there including Google’s new Dart language along with the tried and…

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Choo Choo! Science Coming Through!

S.T.E.A.M. Power Podcast #12. http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/STEAM_0012_20APR13.mp3 More Planets in the Goldilocks Zone Nano-Space Suits NASA Wallops First Orbital Launch Google Hacks NC Energy Utility Public Library Joins 21st Century 2013 Lyrid Meteor Shower For more tech news and how-to’s visit the blog or follow along on Twitter @mbparks.  Or listen on iTunes. Music by Halloween, available at http://freemusicarchive.org/ Copyright: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share…

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Who Put This DNA Here?

S.T.E.A.M. Power Podcast #11 http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/STEAM_0011_13APR13.mp3 Polynesian DNA Where It Ought Not To Be Quantum Experiments and the ISS DARPA and GPS Alternative DOJ and FCC Looking Out For The Little Guy, Maybe? For more tech news and how-to’s visit the blog or follow along on Twitter @mbparks.  Or listen on iTunes. Music by Halloween, available at http://freemusicarchive.org/ Copyright: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share…

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Goldie Blox: A Revolution in Smart Toys

Highly recommend supporting the Goldie Blox movement.  I supported them on Kickstarter last year and recently received the first kit which teaches belt drives, force, friction, and wheels & axels.  It’s geared toward girls in that it combines both reading and building.  With that said, it is perfectly good for boys as well.  If Legos…

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Baggin’ an Asteroid

S.T.E.A.M. Power Podcast #10 http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/STEAM_0010_6APR13.mp3 More Evidence of Dark Matter Baggin’ an Asteroid The Transcriptor Electronic Tattoos Right to Stream For more tech news and how-to’s visit the blog or follow along on Twitter @mbparks.  Or listen on iTunes. Music by Halloween, available at http://freemusicarchive.org/ Copyright: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States

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BX: The Business Experience

Lately there has been all the rage for the ‘UX’ experts — User Experience gurus.  UX expert is a person who specializes in ensuring websites and software is ‘user friendly’.  It is more broad than the traditional User Interface (UI) in that UI focuses on a single screen of interactivity whereas UX is more of…

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