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What is a Robot?

Amber August 14, 2015

What is a Robot?

It is a queer feeling to know that I have made myself into a footnote in the history of science and technology for having invented the foundation of a science that didn’t exist at the time – and that I did it at the age of twenty-one. ~Isaac Asimov The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: About Technology, Local, Science Tagged With: bb-8, bigdog, Dagna Bieda, festo third hand, history of robotics, humanoid, isaac asimov, iterative learning, james bruton, Josef Kapek, Karl Capek, nao, robot, Robotics, spherical robot, three laws of robotics, Unimate, YETI Robotics

Craft and the Modern Maker Movement

Amber August 11, 2015

Craft and the Modern Maker Movement

"…we know that the human hand is a wonderful and exquisite instrument to be used in a hundred movements exacting delicacy, direction and force; every such movement is a cause of joy as it leads to the pleasure of execution and the triumph of success. We … [Read more...]

Filed Under: About Technology, Handcrafts, How to be a..., Local Tagged With: Arts and Crafts, Charlotte Mason, David Lang, handcraft, homeschool, homeschoolgeek, Maker, Maker Culture, MakerSpace Charlotte, William Morris, Zero to Maker

The Photographers Eye Workshop

Amber August 3, 2015

The Photographers Eye Workshop

The Photographer's Eye Friday, August 7th. 10:0am - 4:00pm Board Room @ Imaginon 1 hour lunch break beginning @ 12:30pm This is a FREE event - to register email: amber.brighthouse@gmail.com (Students must be at least 12 to participate in Imaginon … [Read more...]

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