Author Archives: Chuck-Lawton
No Boundaries Contest Explorers Careers in STEM
Space and exploration can be an exciting idea, especially to young people. How often growing up have we exclaimed that we wanted to be an astronaut? Yet despite the ending of the imminent mothballing of the Constellation program at NASA, there are still hundreds of career options available to people wishing to be involved and […] Continue reading
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Giving the Geekling a Computer (GeekDad Wayback Machine)
Two years ago, you were reading this by Jacob Russell.
We recently gave the Pup a computer of her very own. We had previously given her a hand-me-down, which subsequently died, but this was special. A geek-friend of mine recently built some PCs as part of a project at work (Core Duo, 4 gigs […] Continue reading
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Talking Carl: The Best 99¢ I’ve Spent In A Long Time
As a parent of a three-year-old, distractions can be a powerful tool. Whether you’re at a restaurant waiting for food to arrive, visiting friends without your child’s favorite toy, or stuck in traffic in a car, being able to distract your child with something entertaining can be quite a relief. And while not suitable every […] Continue reading
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Looking Back at Stephen Spielberg’s A.I.
My favorite film blog, Cinematical, had a list of the ten best sci-fi films of this past decade and number one on the list was Stephen Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence. I had only seen it once in the theaters when it first came out and was curious to see how the film stood up with […] Continue reading
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Is There an Upper Limit to Crayola’s Law?
I knew Crayons had been around a while, but I didn’t know they were over a hundred years old. And during that time, Crayola’s non-specialty colors have gone from 8 to 133 with a few retired colors along the way. The folks over at weathersealed.com gathered the color information and dates from wikipedia to create […] Continue reading
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From High School Robotics to the White House
A few months ago, President Obama launched the “Educate to Innovate” campaign to strengthen competency in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. During this event, some students were invited to demonstrate their robot they built as part of the 2009 FIRST Robotics competition. One of those students, Steven Harris, commented on the importance of high school robotics […] Continue reading
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A Trip Inside ThinkGeek – GeekDad Wayback Machine
With ThinkGeek just getting cooler and cooler (what with the exclusive GeekDad T-Shirt available), you might enjoy this behind-the-scenes look at the company which ran one year ago, by Ken Denmead.
We’re big fans of ThinkGeek here at GeekDad, and we’ve been thrilled to have them sponsor our Puzzle of the Week posts that so many folks seem […] 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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Hexbug Nano + LEGO Duplo = Insane Fun
A few nights ago while doing some Christmas shopping, I came across the HEXBUG display at our local Toys R’ Us. Being interested in robotics and remembering that GeekDad’s own Anton Olsen works at Innovation First International, the company behind HEXBUG creatures, I took a chance on purchasing a Nano. It’s clear after getting home […] Continue reading
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Take the Red Pill and Enter the LegoMatrix
We here at GeekDad celebrate all things Lego. Add a dose of SciFi to the mix, and you’ve got a recipe for something we’ll truly be geeking over.
Taking over a year to shoot, Trevor Boyd and Steve Ilett took their interest in stop-motion photography to recreate 44-seconds of the Matrix entirely in Lego. Recreating the […] Continue reading
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