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Do you have kids? Maybe nieces and nephews? Or maybe you work in a school environment? Maybe it's just friend's who know you're a programmer and ask about how they should go about introducing programming concepts with them. Anna-Lena Popkes is back on the show to share her research on when and how to teach kids programming. We spend the second half of the episode talking about concrete apps and toys you might consider for each age group. Plus, some of these things are fun for adults too. ;) Episode sponsors WorkOS Talk Python Courses Links from the show Anna-Lena: alpopkes.com Magical universe repo: github.com Machine learning basics repo: github.com PyData recording "when and how to start coding with kids": youtube.com Robots and devices Bee Bot: terrapinlogo.com Cubelets: modrobotics.com BBC Microbit: microbit.org RaspberryPi: raspberrypi.com Adafruit Qualia ESP32 for CircuitPython: adafruit.com Zumi: robolink.com Board games Think Fun Robot Turtles Board Game: amazon.com Visual programming: Scratch Jr.: scratchjr.org Scratch: scratch.org Blocky: google.com Microbit's Make Code: microbit.org Code Club: codeclubworld.org Textual programming Code Combat: codecombat.com Hedy: hedycode.com Anvil: anvil.works Coding classes / summer camps (US) Portland Community College Summer Teen Program: pcc.edu Watch this episode on YouTube: youtube.com Episode transcripts: talkpython.fm --- Stay in touch with us --- Subscribe to us on YouTube: youtube.com Follow Talk Python on Mastodon: talkpython Follow Michael on Mastodon: mkennedy
Welcome to the Velocity Chaos Podcast! This is the 46th Episode of the Velocity Chaos Podcast!! Luke, Nick, and DJ Chop Suey talk about Roller Coaster Tycoon, Lava Lamps, and Cubelets. They look into the most popularly expensive spices, find out how lava lamps and Rubik's Cubes work, reminisce about Rollercoaster Tycoon, and provide some Party Knowledge about the Endurance. So, hang on for this wild adventure on this loooong Episode of Velocity Chaos! Thank you all so much! Be sure to Like, Comment, Subscribe, and or leave a rating on all the platforms! Share it with your friends! Instagram Facebook YouTube www.VelocityChaos.Libsyn.com Spotify Apple Podcast iheartRadio Episode Links Segment 1 Do You Know What's Popular? - Spices https://luxurycolumnist.com/most-expensive-spices-in-the-world/ https://moneyinc.com/most-expensive-spices-in-the-world/ https://www.finedininglovers.com/article/these-are-worlds-most-expensive-spices#:~:text=Saffron%20is%20the%20world's%20most,than%20600%20hours%20of%20labor Segment 2 How Does it Do That? - Lava Lamps & Rubik's Cubes https://www.mathmos.com/home.php https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/science-questions/how-does-lava-lamp-work.htm#:~:text=In%20a%20liquid%20motion%20lamp,other%20liquid%2C%20so%20it%20rises https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/did-you-know/luminescent-chemistry-lava-lamps#:~:text=The%20whirling%20globs%20we%20remember,and%20sparkles%20added%20for%20whimsy.&text=Did%20You%20Know%3F https://www.mathmos.com/home.php https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/science-questions/how-does-lava-lamp-work.htm#:~:text=In%20a%20liquid%20motion%20lamp,other%20liquid%2C%20so%20it%20rises https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/did-you-know/luminescent-chemistry-lava-lamps#:~:text=The%20whirling%20globs%20we%20remember,and%20sparkles%20added%20for%20whimsy.&text=Did%20You%20Know%3F Segment 3 Nostalgia - Rollercoaster Tycoon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RollerCoaster_Tycoon#RollerCoaster_Tycoon_World https://www.planetcoaster.com/ Segment 4 Party Knowledge - Endurance and Ernest Shackleton https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/09/climate/endurance-wreck-found-shackleton.html https://www.history.com/news/shackleton-endurance-survival Aussie News https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-04/rare-holden-commodore-discovered-wimmera-breaks-auction-record/100874644 Recommendation What We Do in the Shadows Movie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3416742/ https://www.amazon.com/What-We-Shadows-Jemaine-Clement/dp/B00VVXGP04 Show https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7908628/ https://www.hulu.com/series/what-we-do-in-the-shadows-0b10c46a-12f0-4357-8a00-547057b49bac Songs are free YouTube songs: Jason Farnham - World Map E's Jammy Jams - Soul and Mind Didgeridoo Royalty Free Music Infraction - Upbeat Funk Rock [No Copyright Music] _ Saturday Send us an email about anything If you have any questions or topics you would like us to get into, please email VelocityChaosPodcast@gmail.com We'll see if we can tackle your question in an upcoming episode! Timecodes are slightly off, because they are taken from the YouTube Video Timeline. 0:00 Intro 0:21 Welcome and Show Set up 2:20 Segment 1 - Do You Know What's Popular? - Spices 22:59 Ad Break 1 - The Goods 23:07 Segment 2 - How Does it Do That? - Lava Lamps and Rubik's Cubes 39:45 Segment 3 - Nostalgia - Rollercoaster Tycoon 55:42 Ad Break 2 - Ball 56:43 Segment 4 - Party Knowledge - Endurance 1:15:05 Australian News - Commodore Bonanza 1:19:16 Summation 1:21:12 Recommendation - What We Do In the Shadows 1:23:25 Outro
On this episode of Solely Singleton Brad and Eric discuss a small format called Cubelet! Its popularity is growing rapidly though! They also talk about the one simple trick that added 170 cards to Eric's cube size! Does size REALLY matter? We'll let you decide. 0:00 - Intro 1:15 - What is Cubelet? 17:30 - Types of Cubelets 28:45 - Eric's Cube Story and Storage Discussion 49:45 - Outro Links: The Misers Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/themiserscube The Board Game Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/theboardgamecube Brad’s Main Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/drruler Eric’s Travel Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/travelcube Contact Information: You can interact with Solely Singleton by joining the hosts on reddit, discord, and twitter to give input to improve the show. Feel free to email questions and comments to the show’s email address. Your Hosts: Brad (DrRuler) & Eric (OnekuoSora) Brad’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrRuler Eric’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/OnekuoSora Show Email: SolelySingleton@gmail.com MTG Cube Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/mtgcube/ MTG Cube Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/tFBZ2Z3 Licensed Music Used By This Program: "There It Is" by Kevin MacLeod From the Free Music Archive CC BY "Thursday Snow Reprise" by Blank & Kytt From the Free Music Archive CC BY "Chiaroscuro" by Andrew Codeman From the Free Music Archive CC BY "Last Call" by Lee Rosevere From the Free Music Archive CC BY "Someone Else's Memories" by Revolution Void From the Free Music Archive CC BY "Little Lily Swing" by Tri-Tachyon From the Free Music Archive CC BY "Ugly" by Vienna Ditto From the Free Music Archive CC BY "Slow Burn" by Kevin MacLeod From the Free Music Archive CC BY "RSPN" by Blank & Kytt From the Free Music Archive CC BY "Awel" by Stefsax From the Free Music Archive CC BY
This week Tommy and Adam talk to the founder and CEO of Modular Robotics, the company that created the wonderful STEM toy Cubelets—little blocks that you snap together to create a robot!
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Jeff sits down with Eric Schweikardt of Modular Robotics to talk about STEM education in today's classrooms. Learn how your students can learn programming skills through Modular Robotics interlocking Cubelets to create amazing robotic projects. About Modular RoboticsModular Robotics is home to more than 50 people who design, engineer and manufacture tiny robots. Every day, we work to build robot construction systems for kids because we believe that toys shape the way children think about the world. Our goal is to create remarkable fun play experiences that impart an intuitive understanding of complex systems and design thinking. Our team is comprised of engineers, software developers production specialists and operators. Links of interestWebsite: http://www.modrobotics.com (www.modrobotics.com) Blog: http://www.modrobotics.com/blog (www.modrobotics.com/blog) Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/modrobotics (@modrobotics) Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/modrobotics (www.facebook.com/modrobotics) YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/modrobotics (www.youtube.com/modrobotics) About GuestEric Schweikardt is a designer of tools, robots, architecture and software. He develops concurrent and distributed physical systems with the intention of understanding more about the natural world through model-building. He designed and built roBlocks, a modular robotic construction kit, and is working on evolutionary algorithms for automated design. Eric finished his PhD in Computational Design in 2008 from Carnegie Mellon University, and is now a visiting scientist at the Cornell Computational Synthesis Laboratory in Ithaca, New York. He studied architecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder and returned there to teach digital modeling and animation. He founded the Allegory Design Group, a web development studio specializing in 3D user interfaces, and worked as a consultant creating architectural renderings and animation for Michael Tavel Architects, Hobbs Design, Wolff Lyon Architects and DKahn Studio. Eric's undergraduate research was concerned with pen-based interfaces and the apparent divide between sketching and design development in architecture. This work resulted in Digital Clay, a program that interprets a designer's isometric (3D) sketches as digital models. Eric has presented work at conferences on Human Computer Interaction (ICMI, TEI), Computer-Aided Design (ACADIA), and Intelligent Toys (DIGITAL).
Will and Kevin discuss a few casual decks and how they faired against one another. Then they discuss cubelets, and how they enjoyed initial testing on this awesome two-player format! Check us out! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/itresolves/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/itresloves Twitter: https://twitter.com/ResolvesMTG?lang=en Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/itresolvesmtg Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/it.resolves.mtg/ Contact Us! it.resolves.mtg@gmail.com Instagram Partners: https://www.instagram.com/puzzled_periwinkle/ https://www.twitch.tv/brew_city_mtg https://www.instagram.com/vessa_mtg https://www.instagram.com/djinkys_mtg_cards https://www.instagram.com/magic_maud https://www.instagram.com/dr.snapcaster https://www.instagram.com/theplaneswalkermtg https://www.instagram.com/phyrexian_felix https://www.instagram.com/foilblacklotus https://www.instagram.com/the.mana.source
IoT DIY Kits What are some of the IoT DIY kits available in Market ? Interesting projects using DIY Kits Difference between Standalone IoT kits, Cloud connected Kits, Plug & Play Kits What’s happening to Google Brillo & Weave ? Industrial automation is possibly ahead of consumer adoption of IoT? Links Standalone Kits Gemalto - The Cinterion Concept Board mbed Cellular Kit Adafruit Fona Eyeing a Self-Driving Future, Ford Drops $1B on an AI Startup Cloud Enabled IoT kits Gemalto - Konekt Line Particle (was Spark) Electron Qualcomm Internet of Everything Google Cloud IoT platform Plug & Play Kits Gemalto - Little Bits Cubelets Mesh AWS IoT Button
The train to Denver International Airport starts next week, but a long-waited train to Boulder and Longmont, called the B Line, is years from completion. Then, band Leader Glenn Miller and songstress Lannie Garrett are among this year’s inductees to the Colorado Music Hall of Fame. And, blocks called Cubelets are self-contained robots designed to teach kids creativity.
Snowshoe Hare Faces Uncertain Future (start time 6:35). They don’t get much cuter than bunnies. One of the cutest of them all is the snowshoe hare. It’s elusive, and well camouflaged, so you may well never have seen one. To survive, these hares change their coats with the seasons – white in the snowy winter and rusty brown in the summer. So now, some hares’ fur turns white before the snow covers the ground. Think what it’d be like to be naked in public, an easy meal for eagles and other predators. Whether these fragile hares can evolve and adapt to their changing homes fast enough is a question some biologists are studying hard. Hillary Rosner, a local science journalist and author, wrote about the plight of the snowshoe hare in the current issue of High Country News and now talks with How on Earth's Susan Moran. Cubelets Robotics (start time 15:00) is an award-winning modular robotics kit created and made in Boulder. The concept is simple: you take these magnetic blocks and snap them together to make an endless variety of robots with no programming and no wires. You can build robots that drive around on a tabletop, respond to light, sound, and temperature, and have surprisingly lifelike behavior. But instead of programming that behavior, you snap the cubelets together and watch the behavior emerge like with a flock of birds or a swarm of bees. To find out more, How on Earth's Shelley Schlender talks with Modular Robotics Design Director, Eric Schweikardt. Cubelet theme song by Blorp Corp. Hosts: Joel Parker, Susan Moran Contributor: Breanna Draxler Producer: Shelley Schlender Engineer: Shelley Schlender Executive Producer: Shelley Schlender Listen to the show: