Ron and I had the great opportunity to volunteer at Northeast Community Cycles last night. In case you’ve never heard of them, this group provides safe, refurbished bicycles free of charge to underprivileged children and adults in Fairfield County, CT. Since they started operating, they’ve given out over 3,000 bikes!!! They have a huge workshop …
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We’ve been doing some thinking over here and we’ve decided that the parts we’ve been using for our robot are too expensive! The price tag for the parts we’ve been using has been upwards of $60. This is just way too much money for kids in whole swaths of Stamford and Norwalk. To address this, …
We’ve created our very own App in Google Play that enables users to control their robots (or many other things) with their smartphones. This app will be the one we use in future robot camps and classes. We’ll give a line-by-line explanation of how the code in this app works – and, more importantly, how …
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Ron Morse and I had the privilege of taking part in First Annual Bike Build help by the Two Wheels Foundation in Norwalk on Sunday at the South Norwalk Community Center. The group got donations from all over Norwalk, collecting enough to purchase 40 new bikes. The group of about 75 people put them together …
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You may be through with harvesting from your garden – but there is one more thing you need to do before the snow flies. Make sure you prepare your garden soil, so you’ll be all set in the Spring. An expert from a local garden center will be on hand to answer all of your …
It’s that time of year to prepare your snowblower for the season ahead. Chances are, you haven’t fired it up all summer … and it didn’t get much use last year. If you didn’t put any fuel stabilizer in your tank, you might have a varnished carburator – and your machine simply won’t turn over. …
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I had a great time teaching Intro to Robots at the Manchester Makerspace in Manchester NH. So glad this place is up and running! The space is poised for real growth!!!
The wheelchair seen at countless Rippowam Labs events is being sent to a hospital in Senegal. We had tried to donate to a worthy charity locally, but we were told that it “wasn’t up to code” and, therefore, didn’t comply with their rules on giving mobility devices to clients. But our friend, Bara, knew that …
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I don’t when I was more proud of the Fairfield Yankees. Was it the day they won the National Championship? Or was it last night at the Custer St. housing project in Stamford? AJ O’Mahoney, Carl Rohde, Christian Arciuolo, Matt Leonard and Matt Parry took time out of their busy schedules to come down and …
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The students in this year’s robot camps have been having a blast! Yesterday’s class had the best group of soldering students I’ve ever seen! There are more classes scheduled for August. Go to http://rippowamlabs.org/events/end-of-the-school-year-robot-class/ to reserve your space. Here is Paul’s bot in action … https://youtu.be/nQKQCPsWsA8
