S.T.E.A.M. Power Podcast #46 2 August 2014 http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/2014/STEAM_0046_02AUG14.mp3 DIY Space Shuttle and Mission Control Simulator Storing The Wind Under The Ocean Stereolithography 3D Printing + Geometry + Aerogel = Super Strong Materials Google’s Smart Contact Lens Gets Real Tesla Inks Deal For Battery Gigafactory Forget Fiberoptic, Hello Air Waveguides Michael Art and Crafts [Download] For more…
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I was tinkering around with my FTDI Friend today and decided to try it out on my Mintduino from a few years back. In hooking it up, I noticed a few issues with a previous schematic. So here is a revised Mintduino schematic. I am a wannabe fan of Fritzing so I drew it up…
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In life it’s not the destination that matters, it’s the journey that counts. Same thing with making. I enjoy the process, the design more than realizing a final product. Partially because I enjoy simply learning new skills. If there was one thing I could change about undergraduate engineering curriculums is I would make them way…
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S.T.E.A.M. Power Podcast #45 13 July 2014 http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/2014/STEAM_0045_13JUL14.mp3 Celestron First Telescope for Kids (and Kids at Heart) BAE Future Aviation Visions NASA’s New Rocket Passes Review Telsa Aims For $30K EV by 2017 New Class Of Stars Discovered Science Ethics and the H1N1 Virus Research Commercially Available Nanotube Transistors by 2020 GE Announces $15 Remote Controlled…
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S.T.E.A.M. Power Podcast #44 21 June 2014 http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/2014/STEAM_0044_21JUN14.mp3 Free Will and Brain ‘s Background Noise Supreme Court Strikes Down Software Patents | More Harley-Davidson’s First Electric Motorcycle HP’s New Computer Architecture Battery Powered Buses Flash Charged in 15 Seconds Google Buys Skybox | And Dropcam Honeywell Challenges Nest FAA Authorizes First Commercial Drones Virgin Airlines Saves Millions…
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The United States of America is a country unlike any other our planet has ever seen. It is even in her darkest hours a source of hope and light for the entire world. It’s hard to explain precisely why that is. I say that because we are more now than ever a melting pot of…
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S.T.E.A.M. Power Podcast #43 31 May 2014 http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/2014/STEAM_0043_31MAY14.mp3 Google Neural Networks and Data Center Energy Efficiency | White Paper Smartphone Compass Used To Map Building Interior Create Matter From Light Mapping Entire Animal’s Neuron Network Remote Controlled Construction Equipment Creating “Alien” DNA Papilio FPGA | FPGAs Ham Radio Field Day 2014 [Download] For more tech news and…
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These days just about anybody with a computer can gin up an infographic to showcase whatever dataset they so chose to lead unsuspecting readers to predetermined conclusions the creator so chooses. That is a corrupting influence that can lead to very poor decisions and very poor outcomes. To prevent this, a set of professional ethics…
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So you’ve built with microcontrollers like Arduino and the Propeller? Check. Got your feet wet with Single Board Computers like Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone? Done. The next step is Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)… learn Hardware Description Languages(VHDL and Verilog) … write code to “create” hardware … allow for true parallel sensing and output. Papilo…
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S.T.E.A.M. Power Podcast #42 16 May 2014 http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/2014/STEAM_0042_16MAY14.mp3 [Download] For more tech news and how-to’s visit the blog, follow along on Google+, and check out our YouTube Channel. Or listen to the audio only version at iTunes and Stitcher. Music by Halloween, available at http://freemusicarchive.org/ Copyright: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States This Week’s STEAM Art Pic: 9/11 Museum Image and Caption Credit: Jeff Goldberg, Esto Today’s podcast…
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