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GeekDad's very own John Baicthal has joined Matthew Beckler and Adam Wolf (co-founders of Wayne and Layne) to release Make: Lego and Arduino Projects. Just like the other Make: books, it's a high ...
Frankie the Cat is just one of a five robot-building projects in the new Lego Boost, a $159.99 model-building and code-training kit for kids (and adults).
Arduino LEGO Pneumatic Compressor Project. 2:01 pm September 11, 2018 By Julian Horsey. ... I built it for the by Arduino automated Lego train container terminal that I’m currently building.
LAS VEGAS — Vernie considers me with his icy blue yes, an orange eyebrow slightly cocked. Then, suddenly, he races forward and asks me my name. I shout it into the nearby tablet and we commence ...
With that thought in mind, longtime GeekDad contributor John Baichtal and collaborators Adam Wolf and Matthew Beckler wrote Make: LEGO and Arduino Projects, and developed the open source ...
Unlike Lego Mindstorms, the brick company's "expert" line, Lego Boost aims younger, at kids 7-12.(There's another kit, Lego WeDo, that's similar but education-targeted.).Boost has a mix of ...
The Microduino mCookie is a stackable microcontroller that looks like a high-tech LEGO brick, with all the capabilities of an Arduino microcontroller and then some. It's also compatible with ...
Before the NSA deletes this post, we’ll be clear: We’re talking about a model of a nuclear reactor, not the real thing. Using Legos, [wgurecky] built a point kinetic reactor model that … ...
The robot, cat, and vehicle all seem like fairly standard projects for electronic building block kits like Boost, and versions have been seen in Lego's more complex Mindstorms robotics kits.