Our june 2021 Issue
Bat Backpacks
In the past issues of Beanz, we’ve covered how the world of the Internet of Things (IoT) can…
Geocache on Mars
On February 18, 2021 the Perseverance rover landing on Mars with a parachute was breathtaking and scary to…
June 2021 News Wire
Interesting stories about computer science, software programming, and technology for February 2018.
Charles Babbage
There are a lot of people who helped invent what would become the computers we use today, but…
Quantum Computing Gateways
In the last issue, we talked about the physics of quantum mechanics and the ways quantum computers calculate…
CodeGuppy Smiley Project
Many programmers got hooked on coding when they found a simple way to write code, saw the result…
Create Scratch Backgrounds
In February’s issue of Beanz we introduced the basics of pixel art using Piskel. For June we will…
Fractured Fairy Tales in Scratch
A fun way to use Scratch is to tell a story using characters and dialogue. For our story,…
James McKinney
The screen shows uninspired squiggles. But you don’t look away because the music pulls you in. The squiggles…
Solving Tiny Problems
During a recent lesson on design thinking with my 8th grade students, we were talking about solving some…
Hard Drives
A lot of computers come with a hard disk drive, or HDD installed inside of them already. However,…
Internet Over Radio
If there’s any current trend in tech that I love right now it’s that people are constantly finding…
Manipulate Photos in Python
Let’s say you’ve taken some photos and you want to do something interesting with them, something weird perhaps?…
Be a Battery
Years ago, when I started this magazine, the last article I wrote for every issue was a relaxing…
How to Solder LEDs
Transistors are an amazing piece of technology that made millions of other inventions happen! The first transistor was…
Interview with Allie Grey
Allison Grey is a mechanical engineer who works at Plenty, a company in San Francisco, California that builds…