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16Apr/120

A Simple Arduino Robot

At the Science Festival one of the things we talked about in the Arduino area was how easy it is to make a robot out of an RC car. This guy's arduino robot is pretty basic, but has lots of room to expand.

Here is a short video and associated intractable on doing exactly that.


Instructable: Make your RC car drive itself with this simple brain swap

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15Apr/120

Science Festival – Great Success!

Jim teaching Nick to solder

Saturday at the Science Festival of the Lehigh Valley, we taught over 40 kids to solder, saw kids eyes light up with the potential of 3D printing, showed off the simple power of Arduinos and had a great time. We had a real solid group of folks sharing in the responsibility of the booth and I think it showed in the participation of attendees.

We also passed out every piece of literature about Make Lehigh Valley we had and started writing out the website on extra name tags. If you are looking for more information, feel free to look around here.

Thank you to everyone who came by and thank you for everyone who volunteered to make this happen.

Thank you also to AEDC and Hive 4A for being critical partners in making this opportunity available to us.

See more pictures on Facebook.

We ran out of soldering handouts at the festival. If you would like one they are available to download.

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9Apr/120

Science Festival Radio Announcement

We recorded a little radio spot to highlight our involvement in the Science Festival of the Lehigh Valley. It will air on Lehigh Valley Tech Radio.

We will have the following fun activities to share with the Lehigh Valley:

  • 3D scanning using a Microsoft Kinect
  • 3D printing
  • basic soldering classes
  • interactive arduino microcontroller projects
  • more

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