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 …
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Stamford STEMfest
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 …
The kids on Custer Street are mobile again – thanks to Ron Morse!
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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Bike Maintenance for Kids – April 14th
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)!!!
Robotics at the Domus School
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 …
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Here is my bluetooth-controlled LED strip … I think I’ll have to attach this to my LED Bike Helmet too.
Bluetooth-controlled robot
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 …
One-Day Robot Camp at Darien Library was a BLAST!!
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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The Bot Class at CT Hackerspace in Watertown (1/16)
I had a blast teaching the class at CT Hackerspace in Watertown on Saturday. The students were bright and building their bots came natural to them. It was great meeting Enzo, Franklyn and all the others! Looking forward to the next one, where we’ll control these bots with our smartphones!! CT Hackerspace RULES!!!
Open Space for Unemployed IT Workers
More and more of our friends have been hit with the scourge of unemployment recently, so we’ll be opening up our space for them in 2016. Anyone who is unemployed or under-employed can use our space during the day for FREE. We realize being without a job is tough – but you don’t have to …