For the third year in a row, we’ll be teaching classes in the Norwalk Community College’s College for Kids program. One of our classes will deal with DIY AI. We’ll be teaching students how to build and code a robot that responds to their voice commands!!! It’s the perfect opportunity to work with a Raspberry …
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How about some AI with your Raspberry Pi?
We’ve added a new class to our repertoire and its exactly what you’ve all been asking for – DIY AI! AI (artificial intelligence) and machine learning have taken a firm footing in our every day lives. We ask Siri for directions. We ask Alexa to order dog food. It’s really convenient – but kind of …
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Join Ron in Biking to Work on Friday!
Ron Morse will be working with People Friendly Stamford in sponsoring Stamford’s 2019 Bike-to-Work Day events this Friday (May 17 [from 7:30 am to 9:00 am]) in Mill River Park. This is an exciting event where the city’s biking community comes together to celebrate our favorite form of transportation. Word is that a free breakfast …
Rippowam Labs Now offers Scratch Tutoring
The graphical programming language invented by MIT is often the very first place that kids start experimenting with coding. For years we resisted teaching this because we thought … “Why not just get them started writing actual code?” But the more we explored, the more we realized how effective this language can be to teach …
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Our first-ever Open House on Feb. 11
We don’t do this very often, but on Monday February 11th at 6:30 pm, we’ll be having our very first Open House. We were talking the other day and we all want to see more traffic walking through our makerspace. And what better way to do that than to swing our doors open to the …
Friday Night Coding Class at Trinity Park
The general public is invited to join us every Friday night at Trinity Park Apartments in Stamford for a free Web Coding class. We’re just getting going – so, if you’ve never coded before, now would be a good time to get started. We’re starting with the basics of HTML scripting … and we’ll move …
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2019 will be the best ever for you and Rippowam Labs
We had such a great year in 2018! We met so many new friends who helped to add to the Rippowam Labs community, whether it be with their knowledge, their skills or tools. It all added to the mix and created a one-of-a-kind of experience for anyone who was involved. And because of all of …
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone in the Rippowam Labs family!!!
We’ve had a very successful 2018 and we’re SOOOOO excited to roll out new offerings and services in 2019. I hope you’ll be able to attend our monthly Open House nights (more info to come). It will be an opportunity to show members of the community what it is we do at our makerspace. It’s …
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