This past weekend, I had the opportunity to work with members of the Boy Scouts in cooperation with local HAM Radio operators. The HAM operators had a number of antenna bays, generators and piles of equipment they were more than willing to share … Continue reading
Providing a shared interactive learning experience through telepresence, using an omni-environmental platform. ABSTRACT Telepresence provides a virtual method of experiencing events at remote or even hostile locations which the operator might be incapable of directly experiencing even if physical proximity … Continue reading
An off-the-shelf K-9 toy is being turned into a true robot using an Arduino board. On Tuesday, I had a chance to drop by the Austin HackerSpace (http://www.atxhackerspace.org/) to meet a great group of very enthusiastic makers, artists and DIY … Continue reading
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Via Scoop.it – #SciFundVladimir Vukicevic just Fueled my project, STEMulate Learning, with 20 liters of RocketFuel. Thank you, Vladimir for supporting the #SciFund Challenge and the STEMulate Learning lab! http://www.rockethub.com/projects/3814-stemulate-learning
Via Scoop.it – #SciFundIndrek Mesi just Fueled my project, STEMulate Learning!, with 5 liters of RocketFuel. Thank you, Indrek Mesi for supporting the #SciFund Challenge and the STEMulate Learning lab! http://www.rockethub.com/projects/3814-stemulate-learning
Via Scoop.it – STEM Studies “Scrap-heap Supercomputing” workshops using surplus equipment have already shown tremendous development of interest in STEM studies for middle-school through college-level participants! These short-term workshops also contributed more than 4 years worth of computing power in … Continue reading
Via Scoop.it – Crowdfunding Science The #SciFund Challenge Funding levels of science proposals through traditional channels has dropped to ~20% (or less, discipline depending!). At the same time, web-savvy crowdfunding organizatio… Show original
Crowdfunding Science Crowdfunding research and scientific inquiry at GitHub – the “Open-Research-Proposals” hub bills their concept as “A place to draft grant proposals in the open.” Wikiversity user OpenScientist is developing a hub focusing on crowdfunded grant writing, coupled to … Continue reading
Via Scoop.it – Crowdfunding ScienceLindsey Hoshaw is a freelance journalist and crowdfunding pioneer. Way back in 2009, she ran a successful crowdfunding campaign to fund her science and shares her thoughts on successful research crowdfunding practices. She discusses the use of … Continue reading