Join us on July 21 (5:30 pm) at 34 Custer Street in Stamford, where the National Champion Fairfield Yankees Mens Rugby Club will be conducting a rugby clinic for neighborhood kids. We at Rippowam Labs are normally into all things technology but it’s Summer and kids should be playing outside! And what better way to …
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Make sure to take part in Bike to Work Day 2016!!!!!! And if you’re cellphone is out of juice, ask me to charge it up using my new DIY bike-powered USB Phone Charger!!
Join us at the Custer Street Community Center in Stamford on Friday May 20th at 5 pm. We’ll be starting work on our new Container Garden. Children of all ages are needed for this project!!! The more people helping us with this, the more bountiful our harvest will be!!! (There will be a movie playing …
We’ll have a booth at Stamford STEMfest again this year on Saturday May 14th in Mill River Park. Come on down to see our latest projects. Stamford Academy students will be there showing off the bots they built. Also, rumors are swirling that members of the Open Organization of Lockpickers (toool.org) will be there giving …
When we arrived at the Community Center on Thursday night, we didn’t know if anyone was going to show up. Jeffrey Watt, the Resident Services Coordinator, had put the word out that Ron Morse was going to give a class on bike maintenance – but we couldn’t be sure. But as the night progressed, people …
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We’ll be conducting a bike maintenance class for kids at 32 Custer Street in Stamford on April 14th at 6 pm. Bring tools if you got ’em (wrench, allen wrenches, screwdriver, plyers). Otherwise, we’ll have some to borrow. You’ll be learning from the Master – Ron Morse (the creator of the SpeakerBike)!!!
We had a great time building robots at the Domus School in March with Stefan, Zach and Jay (left to right in picture above). These young men picked up soldering, microcontrollers and computer programming with ease – and we are already planning ways to take our autonomous bots to the next level. Look out for …
Here is my bluetooth-controlled LED strip … I think I’ll have to attach this to my LED Bike Helmet too.
I always thought that creating something that could think for itself (like my autonomous robot) would be the coolest thing. But, when someone asked me to create a bot that could be controlled by a cell phone (via bluetooth), I can’t honestly say now what’s cooler. The really really cool part about this is that …
We all had a great time at the Darien Library yesterday. With little knowledge in computer programming, microcontrollers or soldering, every student walked away with a working robot. I think everyone’s favorite part of the day was coding the bot to behave the way they wanted. Here is an innovative pattern that Arpita programmed her …
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