Hi everyone, Who knows about the future? we also talk about the past, the present but nobody know what will happen in the future and specially for technology. We may have a light idea about it by saying maybe virtual reality "VR", artificial intelligence ''AI'', 3D printing, robotics, drones or even super humans will take over the world. That's an idea but nobody is sure at 100%. Let`s stay for this article on the super humans. We don`t know yet what the super human of tomorrow might looks like but we do know what it looks like today. They use them in the army and it got for name "exoskeleton". It helps carry heavy stuffs and even some scientists use them to experiment and help people to wal

Hello everyone, Summer is there and all the kids are at home, vacation or enrolled in different type of camps. You live in Washington DC and you also want to enjoy those STEM classes and learn more about all those DIY, programming and maker stuffs. That's the right time. Come join us twice a week, every week at the DC libraries with your children from 4 to 12 years to learn about Robotics. The classes will be hold with Thymio an opensource robot where they'll be able to learn how to program it, customise it with lego, tinker it and create a track with jenga for the robot during 1 hour. And it's FREE. The dates for the events are the following: Saturday July 15th at 2 pm, Deanwood Library,

Most of us that love technology or not got a smartphone in our pockets. We like the fact that we can do anything with that powerful tool like go on internet, make some online purchases, record voices, use application, take pictures and videos. The last theme seems interesting and this is what we are about to focus on today. Have you ever think about building your own DIY camera? if yes, you are at the right place. A project call Pijuice was made to build a DIY camera with a raspberry pi and a big TFT screen. With this camera you will be able to take pictures with a pushh button, see your envionnement in a TFT screen and save the pictures. To start, you need to gather the following parts: A

Everyone at school on day or until now had or have a calcultor to make calculation. When you thing today, that a small calculator, smartphone and tablet are more powerful than the computers at the beginning. Computers that needed a big room only for themselve But now as you know everything changed and you can even create your own calculator. This is what a maker called Kale_3d did. He has built a DIY calculator. With this calculator, you can process basics calculation like addition, substraction, multiply and a division. His calculator's brain is made with a arduino Duemilanove, got a 16 buttons keypad, a 2 lines LCD screen and a 9V battery for the power. All of this electronics is strapped

Happy July 4th to all of you!!! Hope you enjoy all the tutorials and the news for makers, builders and tinkering. More to come soon. ;-) Stay tuned.

You want to connect an Arduino board to a raspberry pi board. There are several different ways to do it. It can be done with I2C communication, SPI or even the GPIO port on the Raspberry pi. But in this tutorial, we'll use a serial comunication. But why do we want to connect a raspberry pi 2 B+ and an Arduino uno Rev 3 together? As maybe some of you already know, both of them got their advantages, misadvantages and each of themopen source and open hardware Arduino strengths: Low current consumption Easy to plug in sensors and analog sensors without additionnal hardwares excellent for IOT and more Arduino flaws: Doesn't have a processor for powerful calculation Needs additionnal boards and e

You want to build a DIY GPS tracker at home? With that GPS tracker, you'll be able to track something from your computer or smartphone remotely. This is the concept behing the 3 letters IOT. So be be ready to roll up your sleeves, we got job to do. :-) This tutorial will enumerate the steps to build a DIY GPS tracker with a Raspberry pi for less than $50. To start, your need the following parts: A Raspberry pi zero A Lithium polymere battery 6600 mAh A sim card A battery charger A SD card with Raspbian OS (Linux derivated Operating system) installed on it for the Raspberry pi board A passive GSM antenna A GPS antenna A GPS - GSM module (Adafruit Fona 808) A micro USB to USB cable Prototyping

Thymio the robot was born in Switzerland a few years ago. It has been created to teach how to program, make robotics and education more accessible for kids and adults from 4 to 99 years old in a funny way. Thymio is a opensource openhardware two wheeled robot. The hardware has been developed under an open license which the schematic can be found online. It hasa mutlidirectionnal button on the top allowing to turn it on or off and choose different modes with colors for the robot. The robot can follow a line, follow your hand, react to a clap and more. All this allowing the children to play, discover and then start programming. The robot got different electronic sensors allowing it to evolves