Tag Archives: Projects and Activities
GeekDad Day at the Wired Holiday Store This Saturday
If you haven’t heard the word via Twitter or elsewhere, here’s the official plug: GeekDad has been invited to curate three “GeekDad Days” at the Wired Holiday Store in New York this year, and the LAST one is this coming Saturday from 1:00pm to 2:30pm local time. We’ll be doing build challenges with LEGO bricks, […] Continue reading
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Tagged Hacking the Holidays, Lego, Places, Projects and Activities, Wired Store
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Geeky Educators Unite at the NSTA Conference
A couple of weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to attend part of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) area conference held in Phoenix, Arizona, from December 3-5. More than 2000 educators were supposed to attend for this gathering on Science Education. There were hundreds of workshops, presentations and seminars to teach about developments in […] Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Bill Nye, Galileoscope, National Science Teachers Association, Projects and Activities, Science, Science and Education, Teachers
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Keen Hawk R/C Racer Becomes a Family Project
Continuing my radio-controlled trip down memory lane, I’ve been trying out a recent 4WD car from Tamiya. Fusion Hobbies provided us the Keen Hawk to put through its paces and compare to the 2WD Sand Viper. While I was looking forward to the improved performance and better pulling power, I’d forgotten how much more complex […] Continue reading
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Tagged build, car, electric, Electronic Geek, hobby, project, Projects and Activities, radio-controlled
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Our Future Robot Overlords Hone Their Skills at the 2009 Combots Cup
It’s been a while since robot-combat graced the TV airwaves, but it’s still alive and attracting geeks from all over with a bloodthirsty gleam in their eyes. And if you’d like to witness a bit of robo-carnage yourself, you’re in luck. Saturday and Sunday, December 19-20, the 2009 Combots Cup happens at the San Mateo […] Continue reading
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Tagged combots, Projects and Activities, RoboGames, Robots
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: The Henchmen
Solve the GeekDad puzzle of the week for your chance to win a $50 gift certificate from ThinkGeek! Continue reading
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New Sugar on a Stick Brings Much Needed Improvements
The Sugar learning environment is the operating system and software that powers the XO laptops. Sugar Labs packages their software stack onto a flash drive allowing you to not only test drive their environment but also boot to it from any computer at any time. Version 2 of Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) is a […] Continue reading
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Tagged Linux, Projects and Activities, Science and Education, Sugar on a Stick, SugarLabs, XO-1
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SWAT Team Takes Down Man Armed With LEGO Gun
According to the National Post, a Toronto man who happens to be a big LEGO fan, was working in a downtown office on Friday when the replica gun made from LEGO that he’d ordered from online retailer BrickGun arrived. He assembled the model and later closed his office door for a conference call and that’s when […] Continue reading
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Tagged Collecting, Lego, National Post, Police, Projects and Activities, Recreation, Star Wars, Themes, toy
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GeekDad Day at the Wired Holiday Store FTW!
If you’d been following my tweets this weekend, you might have caught on that I was traveling back to New York for something special: the first GeekDad Day at the Wired Holiday Store. With the gracious support of our friends at LEGO, and the awesome help of Lee Magpili and his amazing Mindstorms builds, it […] Continue reading
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Tagged Adafruit, Hacking the Holidays, Lego, LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0, New York, Projects and Activities, Wired, Wired Holiday Store
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: The Turkey Hangover – Solution!
Solution to the GeekDad Puzzle of the Week! Continue reading
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Impress Your Geeklets: Be a Comic Book Artist.
At GeekDad we are fans of opportunity, given the opportunity we have had to share our passions and ideas with you here on this blog. So, we give a hats off to the UK’s Mohawk Media who have brought us the graphic novel adventures of 80s cult figure and A-Team member, Mr.T.
Mohawk Media have put […] Continue reading
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