Where Love and Learning Meet
I want to start this article by stating that I am in no way compensated or sponsored by Ryze, DJI, or any other company for this article. Recently Ryze released a drone (quadcopter) that uses technology from DJI and Intel to make a very stable user … [Read more...]
Our boys love LEGOs. They are usually at the top of their lists for birthday or Christmas presents. Our boys also love weapons and artillery - especially if they can build them out of LEGOs. So I wasn't all that surprised a few years ago when my oldest … [Read more...]
While I'm still loving my PrintrBot Simple Metal I fell out of love with the noise it made while it shared my desk. I now have my 3D printer in a far corner but still accessible from the network - it is a huge help for my sanity. I can monitor my prints … [Read more...]
This weeks posts are derived from a talk I gave this summer at the Hints Book Fair in Matthews, NC. My talk was titled 'Are You A Homeschool Geek?', but a large part was dedicated to the design process. I referred to it as iterative learning. If you … [Read more...]
We recently bought a Printrbot Simple Metal 3D printer to use around our home office. I learned about this printer from Scott Hanselman and his 3D printer shootout. Having limited experience using printers (I also have access to a Cubify printer.) I was a … [Read more...]
Here are five more YouTube channels that we love. If you missed it you can also read our first post Our Top Five Favorite YouTube Channels for Math and Science. Numberphile is filmed and produced by Brady Haran and focuses on mathematics. It... … [Read more...]
This is how we spent our Pi Day. Hope you enjoy. With such a large family Pi is hardly enough to go around. If you find yourself in the same predicament might we suggest Tau? If you don't know about tau you can read more about its case to be the … [Read more...]
We use YouTube channels in our homeschool. Check out five of our favorite channels for science and math. Since that post we have watched many videos on physics, astronomy, and chemistry. Recently we discovered that we can use the YouTube app on our phone … [Read more...]
I use agile and scrum everyday at work, but it was not until recently that we started using the scrum methodology for our weekly family meetings and for daily updates. As a family, we do modified scrum for our daily meetings before I go to work and … [Read more...]
For our last installment of Artillery, we will be adding a second player, formatting the angle and velocity inputs and keeping score of our hits. To start, lets reformat the input area of our webpage so that the text boxes line up. To do this we will … [Read more...]