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  • Cardweaving

    Cardweaving

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    Diane Sudduth

    Cardweaving, or Tablet Weaving, is an ancient craft by which people wove the narrow bands and straps needed in everyday life.

  • RC Sumo Bots

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    Tom Blevins

    My idea was to create a customizable robot that adults and kids could drive at events and demonstrations. I created a 3D printed base in which motors, batteries, motor controllers, and receivers could be inserted. Then a LEGO base plate could be glued onto the front of the base. Each part inside has a JST…

  • Raspberry Pi

    Raspberry Pi

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    Fred Reineke

    Overview of the Raspberry Pi Intro Classes.To download the lastest raspbian image go to https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/Instructions on how to install images to an sd card go to: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/README.mdDownload Etcher from https://etcher.io/To enable SSH from boot add a file called ssh in the boot drive of the SD card, no need to add anything in the file.To…

  • Internet of Things Microscope

    Internet of Things Microscope

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    Apollo Timbers

    We built a web enabled microscope around the new Raspberry pi 3!  This was a very fun and rewarding project. We entered this in the Hackaday prize and won the Citizen Scientist round. This added 1000dollars of prize money that we used to upgrade to a more improved microscope that is currently in the process of…

  • Pixy-bots

    Pixy-bots

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    Apollo Timbers

    These robots are built around the Pixy computer vision sensor. This vision sensor is low cost for under 100 dollars. The sensor tracks color hues at a whopping 50 frames per second.  If you’re interested, you can find more information about Pixy at their wiki page.There was three robots built in total and were constructed in…

  • Walking plants

    Walking plants

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    Apollo Timbers

    These were custom robots made for a a one time workshop for high school art students though a program found here. http://camstl.org/programs/youth-teen-programs/nan/. During the workshop we divided roughly 20 students up into 4 groups were each group built a walking robot. Here is a Drop box link to the workshops build instruction and the program. The…

  • Pysanky Eggs

    Pysanky Eggs

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    webmaster

    Arch Reactor has shown/demonstrated decorating Pysanky/Ukrainian Eggs at several events including the Kansas City Maker Faire, Mastadon Faire Family Day, and the Saint Louis Science Center Bright Ideas Expo.   Watch the Arch Reactor calendar the month prior to Easter every year as we host annual in-house Egg-Days! Blue Star Pysanky Egg – Decorated in 2023…

  • Intel Edison notes and resources

    Intel Edison notes and resources

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    Chris Weiss

    Notes on working with the Intel Edison Getting Started Suport Forum Latest Downloads Manually flash OS image Enabling opkg packages Python mraa docs Arduino board hardware notes – includes info on PWM pin mapping via jumpers and shows all pin functions ‘configure_edison’ is the tool to setup wifi Notes: I2C – if cannot find Wire.h, copy wire.h…

  • Telepresence Robot V1

    Telepresence Robot V1

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    Chris Weiss

    Telepresence has been around for a while, with telerobotics only recently coming into commercial applications.