One of the challenges that agricultural businesses faced especially here in Austria during the Covid crisis, was the tremendous shortage of manual labor during various harvesting seasons. At the beginning of spring, one of the first agricultural product in our region is asparagus. Harvesting season for asparagus is extremely short, so a spike of manual, […]
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Teach your Kids to code: Build your own OttoDIY robot
Coding is the lingua franca for all citizen in a modern technological society. By adapting any programming language your kids can learn very important skills, such as abstraction of a problem, defining and structuring a solution and to use a sequence of simple steps to fulfill complex tasks. Beside all the educational benefits of learning to […]
Meet Ozobot my Kids best Robot Friend
On my last trip to San Francisco this year I visited the California Academy of Sciences where i was immediately fascinated by a tiny robot called Ozobot. Ozobot looks amazingly cute and is able to perform a lot of magic that ultimately teaches your kids how to program by using a visual programming language thats similar […]
Submit your Arduino Projects to the Maker Fair in ROME
Save the date for the European Maker Faire that takes place from 3 to 6 October in ROME, Italy! Massimo Banzi, one of the inventors of Arduino, is promoting and hosting this cool Make Event in October. It will be the perfect event for meeting the community of DIY activists and Makers all over Europe. […]
A Maker’s Dream: Unboxing the new Arduino Education Starter Kit
Today, i received one of the first samples of the new Arduino Educational Starter Kits by RS and i have to admit that beside it’s cool design this educational starter kit is one of the most exiting collections of electronics i have ever tested. It comes in combination with an Arduino Projects Book that gives […]
My HTML5 Android Camera App: HTML5Cam
I just released a tiny and quite useful Android app that is able to open a HTTP server socket on your Android device, in order to serve you a simple HTML5 page that shows the actual smartphone camera output. This is a really simple possibility to get the camera output of your smartphone where ever […]