West African Inventor Makes 3D Printer from E-Waste, Inhabitat “Kodjo Afate Gnikou, a resourceful inventor from Togo in West Africa, has made a $100 3D printer which he constructed from parts he…
Category: Makers
Genes in Space Student Experiment Headed to International Space Station
“Anna-Sophia Boguraev’s (17) winning Genes in Space student experiment is scheduled for launch to the International Space Station (ISS) on April 8th from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida aboard NASA’s Cargo…
NepalRobotics Update
Nepal Robotics/Bullis-Kanjirowa STEM Update 22 March 2016 “Yesterday I had time to work individually with the students, teaching them about the hardware in their kits and also giving them the curriculum powerpoint….
Indian Students Build Mobile Planetarium
“Inspired by the National Aeronautical Space Agency (NASA) website, a team of engineering students of Mysuru have developed a low-cost portable mobile planetarium. The team lead by M Pajwal, a first grade…
Build Your Own Cubesat For Less Than $6,000
“Satellites have traditionally been expensive with even lower cost solutions like Cubesat costing six figure amounts, limited to those with larger budgets. The PocketQube Kit addresses these problems and widens access to…
LittleBits Used To Build Space Robotic Arm
“There were plenty of engineering-themed toys on view at this weekend’s Toy and Game Fair in Chicago, but none of them came close to NASA’s contribution in terms of sheer cred. On…
Student's Innovative DIY Microscope
Expensive tests for measuring everything from sperm motility to cancer diagnosis have just been made hundreds of thousands of pounds cheaper by a PhD student from Brunel University London who hacked his…
Your Smartphone Can Become A Cosmic Ray Detector
Soon, the growing capability of your smartphone could be harnessed to detect cosmic rays in much the same way as high-end, multimillion-dollar observatories. With a simple app addition, Android phones, and likely…
NSF Is Interested in the Maker Community
The “maker movement” shines a spotlight on DIY design and manufacturing, NSF “Engineering is enjoying a moment, thanks to the maker movement, a cultural phenomenon that encourages everyday citizens to design, build…