Zara from Little Bird Electronics has made a glowing eyed dragon with felt and Lilypad lights for the eyes. Using a simple parallel circuit to get the best results from the LEDs and a switched Lilypad button...
In this episode of STEMiverse Podcast, Peter talks with Dr Steve Brodie. Steve has over 20 years’ experience in research and development, commercialisation and open innovation within corporate research and development laboratories (multinational and SME) and University technology transfer offices....
In this episode of STEMiverse Podcast, Little Bird's Marcus Schappi and Peter Dalmaris talk with Karsten Schulz. Karsten Schulz (PhD) is an engineer, computer scientist, and educator. He is leading the Digital Technologies Institute and is the designer of the...
Thermochromatic pigment is pretty spectacular. For lots of reasons. The first of which is, that it doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as Thermochromatic pigment. That is because the actual name of this product is Thermochromic pigment...as far as we can tell Sparkfun came...
What is inside Beginners Kit for Arduino? Maddy opens up the Beginner Kit for Arduino v3.0 and looks at the case, circuit guides and components. Shown in this video: Arduino Beginner Kit for Arduino
What is the MakeDo Tool Kit? Maddy takes a look at the MakeDo Toolkit within our Sydney warehouse. Parts shown in this video: MakeDo ToolKit MakeDo ToolSet 360 MakeDo Mini Tool MakeDo Scru MakeDo Safe Saw MakeDo Driver MakeDo XL...
On a quite Sunday afternoon my 4 year old son who is currently obsessed with Zelda BOW asked if we could build a Guardian. In his mind I think this was going to be 10 foot high with lazers that...
SparkFun have just released their new PiRetrocade kit which includes five concave arcade buttons, a joystick, an SD card preloaded with Porta Pi, and all of the connective tissue. This product is currently on pre-order, however if you want to...
SparkFun have shared an awesome video on Ohm's law. In the video they look at the resistor and how it affects current and voltage in a circuit. Here's a hint: if you know two of either voltage, current or resistance,...
