What Type Of Leader Will You Be?

People are born with leadership traits, but that doesn’t inherently make them a leader.  Thus leaders can’t be born, only made and the best are forged in the fires of failure.  It’s easy to lead in success, it’s exponentially harder to lead people in difficult times because it is in those times then true human…

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My Other Cousin Solar

S.T.E.A.M. Power Podcast #29. 1 December 2013. http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/2013/STEAM_0029_1DEC13.mp3 Blue Eagle Labs Kossel Clear 3D Printer PaxSpace Our Solar System’s Cousin New Champion for Universe’s Largest Structure  Beaming Power From The Moon Salty and Solar in Nevada Rumor:  Google Building Chrome-app Based IDE codenamed Spark [Download] For more tech news and how-to’s visit the blog or follow along…

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Rise of The Hybrid Board

Microcontrollers.  Single Board Computers (SBC).  Close but not exactly the same.  Microcontrollers tend to be easier to learn and interface with sensors and actuators but at the cost of slower or less processing horsepower.  SBCs offer raw computing power but have a steeper learning curve as they tend to be just credit card in size,…

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Great Balls Of Gamma Radiation

S.T.E.A.M. Power Podcast #28. 24 November 2013. http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/2013/STEAM_0028_24NOV13.mp3 Chromecast SDK Coming Soon Major Progress of Prime Numbers Mathematics Using Nature to Fight Nature Ancient Ocean Discovered NASA’s MAVEN Mission off to Mars Massive Gamma Ray Burst has Scientists Asking Questions [Download] For more tech news and how-to’s visit the blog or follow along on Google+.  Or listen on iTunes….

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It’s A Wonderful Simulated Life

S.T.E.A.M. Power Podcast #27. 17 November 2013 http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/2013/STEAM_0027_17NOV13.mp3 Is This The Matrix? Consciousness From Networks RNA’s Secret Life Outside The Body Rolls-Royce Starts 3D Printing AIrcraft Engine Parts Case Study: Amazon Building Out It’s Infrastructure “Zero Point”: The First 3D 360-degree Immersive Movie [Download] For more tech news and how-to’s visit the blog or follow along on Google+. …

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Entangled In Time

S.T.E.A.M. Power Podcast #26. 11 November 2013 http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/2013/STEAM_0026_11NOV13.mp3 World’s First 1MW Wave Powered Electrical Generator Quantum Entanglement and the Illusion of Time Lightsabers!  Scientists Invent “Photon Molecules” Orion Spacecraft Launching Fall 2014 Discovering the DNA’s Fountain of Youth [Download] For more tech news and how-to’s visit the blog or follow along on Google+.  Or listen on iTunes. Music…

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Internet in Rwanda

 I love America.  But we are at risk of losing some of our shine.  Case in point.  Rwanda.  Yes, that Rwanda.  Rwanda will have 4G LTE with speeds at 100 Mbps to 95% of the populace.  Let me say that again.  Rwanda.  100 Mbps Internet.  I am lucky on a very good day to get…

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To Boldly Go

S.T.E.A.M. Power Podcast #25.  15 September 2013. http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/STEAM_0025_15SEP2013.mp3 New Space Object Discovered: The Micro-Quasar IBM Building New Computer Architecture Based on the Human Brain Rigid Airships 2.0 3D Printing on Mars With Volcanic Rock 123D Circuits.io Coder for Raspberry Pi [Download] For more tech news and how-to’s visit the blog or follow along on Twitter @mbparks.  Or…

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Moto X and the Monopoles

S.T.E.A.M. Power Podcast #24.  3 August 2013. http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/STEAM_0024_3AUG13.mp3 The Hunt for the Magnetic Monopole When Did Our Genetic Adam and Eve Live? NASA Missions Through 2030 3D Scanning Kickstarter Fuel3D UPS To Offer 3D Printer In Select Locations Moto X and Innovation (Or The Lack Thereof) [Download] For more tech news and how-to’s visit the blog or…

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Damn It Man, I’m An Engineer Not A…

Back in 2000 while a midshipman at the US Merchant Marine Academy I had the honor of meeting one of America’s 7 original Mercury astronauts, CDR Scott Carpenter. During his visit there was an opportunity for about 20 or so of us to meet for a Q&A session. One of the upperclassmen I recall asking…

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