Our april 2019 Issue
Fibonacci Spiral
SketchUp is a free and fun program for 3D modeling. You can use SketchUp to design just about…
Constructing STEM with Micro-controllers
While programming is a great start to a technology education, recently I was tasked with thinking more deeply…
Voting
Imagine your class of 30 students has earned a lunch party. Your teacher says the class can choose…
Utah Teapot
Take a close look at the following images. Can you identify anything that they have in common? If…
The Deluxe Dessert Generator
In a previous issue, we created a Random Dessert Generator in Python to spit out new, exciting desserts…
April 2019 News Wire
Interesting stories about computer science, software programming, and technology for February 2018.
How do Biometric Scans Work?
If you’ve ever seen an exciting spy movie, there was probably a scene where someone unlocked a lock…
History of Video Games
Do you ever think about how people sold video games pre-internet? These days, a lone developer can make…
STEAM Interview: Meet Allie Weber
Allie Weber has been thinking about inventing since she was five. When she told her parents she wanted…
Van Allen Belt
Physicist Mona Kessel knows that turning on a pair of satellites takes fortitude. After thousands of hours of…
Conway’s Game of Life
How simple can a computer be? In the past, we’ve talked about things like Turing machines and the…
Writing Game of Life in Scratch
Elsewhere in this issue you’ve seen our article on Conway’s Game of Life and how this strange game…
Assembly
Last issue we talked about C, a language without a runtime that—despite being 40 years old—is still used…
Glitch
Have you wanted to learn how to build a website or code in JavaScript? Does the idea of…
Clap Controlled Night Light
FOR THIS PROJECT YOU WILL NEED A computer with access to the Internet An Adafruit Circuit Playground Express…
Squares and Patterns
You’ve learned how to print triangles in Python — but have you tackled squares? In this article we’ll…
What is the Internet of Things (IoT)?
If you’ve been keeping up with the latest technology news, you may have seen a term called “IoT”…
Bakuro Binary Number Puzzles
Bakuro puzzles are like Sudoku puzzles with binary numbers to determine what value to place in empty puzzle…