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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

Welcome  Secular Homeschoolers!

Amber August 10, 2015

Welcome Secular Homeschoolers!

Good morning! Thanks for visiting our blog. We have an exciting week planned for you and we are so looking forward to our conversations. Before we get off the runway did you notice that the Professor  has a construction cone on his head?! That's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: About Technology, Challenges, Construct, How to be a... Tagged With: design process, homeschool, homeschoolgeek, homeschoolscience, iteration, iterative design, paper airplanes, Robotics, usfirst

Homeschool Geek Week Topics

Amber August 10, 2015

Homeschool Geek Week Topics

We have invited the Professor to the blog to help us out with all the extra work this week since Bitty is hard at work over on the website. He has just sent us this week's syllabus and the daily schedule of topics are listed below. Of course you can jump … [Read more...]

Filed Under: About Technology, How to be a..., Uncategorized Tagged With: artillery, Charlotte Mason, Homeschool Dad, homeschoolgeek, How To Be A Coder, iterative design, learn to code, maker movement, Robotics, robots, teach kids to code, teach kids to program, YouTube

Meet Us At The CMLibrary Idea Box

Amber March 31, 2015

Meet Us At The CMLibrary Idea Box

Tuesday, March 31st at 12:00pm Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Main 310 N. Tryon St We will join the MakerSpace guys at Idea Box at noon tomorrow (12 and up only). We will be on hand to learn and share. Our twelve year old will be in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: About Technology, MeetUps Tagged With: 3D printer, adobe illustrator, Charlotte MeetUps, Design, homeschool, homeschool science, Idea Box, Khan Academy, Kids Programming, LED, lynda.com, Maker Space, Minecraft, pixel art, Raspberry Pi, Robotics, scratch, Snap Circuits, stopmotion animation, vine

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