June 2014 News Wire
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Interesting stories about computer science, software programming, and technology for the months of June/July 2014. More stories can be found at the News Wire link at the top of every page of this site.
3D Printing Obi Wan’s Light Saber
http://makezine.com/2014/05/04/3d-printing-obi-wans-lightsaber/
A $250 3D Printer with Breakthrough Software
http://www.wired.com/2014/05/mod-t-printer/
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/new-matter-mod-t-a-3d-printer-for-everyone
http://www.newmatter.com/
The Mystery of Go, the Ancient Game That Computers Still Can't Win
http://www.wired.com/2014/05/the-world-of-computer-go/
Notation, notation, notation: a brief history of mathematical symbols
NASA hands space enthusiasts the keys to a 1970s-era spacecraft
http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/05/nasa-hands-space-enthusiasts-the-keys-to-a-1970s-era-spacecraft/
http://www.npr.org/2014/03/18/289628696/space-thief-or-hero-one-mans-quest-to-reawaken-an-old-friend
http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/05/isee-3-spacecraft-makes-first-earth-contact-in-16-years/
http://spacecollege.org/isee3/
Introducing Otto: The Hackable, Raspberry Pi-Powered GIF Camera
Otto is the first commercial product built on the new Raspberry Pi Compute module.
http://petapixel.com/2014/05/16/this-is-otto-the-hackable-raspberry-pi-powered-gif-camera/
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/meet-otto-the-hackable-gif-camera
http://www.nextthing.co/
Algorithm Reveals Link Between Sour Cream And Traffic Accidents
Meet Flux, an App That Designs Sustainable Cities at Hyperspeeds
http://architizer.com/blog/flux-app/
http://flux.io/
Here's How People 100 Years Ago Thought We'd Be Living Today
http://www.wired.com/2014/05/victorian-postcards-predict-future/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxczo_xR66k&feature=youtu.be
http://www.neurogamingconf.com/
How Much Will It Cost to Solve Climate Change?
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/527196/how-much-will-it-cost-to-solve-climate-change/
Why bad scientific code beats code following “best practices”
http://www.yosefk.com/blog/why-bad-scientific-code-beats-code-following-best-practices.html
A county's only unsolved murder has a victim without a digital footprint
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Also In The June 2014 Issue
Codea
Codea is an app designed to make it easy to create games and software. Here are tutorials and links to online resources.
Raspberry Pi Projects
Here's a quick introduction to Raspberry Pi, how to find one, get set up, and then do all sorts of neat projects. With links for each step.
Summer Tech Camps and Local Groups
Summer is a great time to get outdoors, learn technology, and meet people in summer tech camps and local tech groups.
Github Basics
Github is an important tool used by programmers to manage their code projects. Here are Github tutorials with links to learn more.
Create ASCII Art
It's fun and easy to create ASCII art with your computer keyboard, a text editor, and your imagination. Here are ideas to get started.
If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
Alice
Alice teaches programming concepts as kids create animated movies with its friendly interface and storytelling.
June 2014 Learn More Links
Links from the bottom of all the June/July 2014 articles, collected in one place for you to print, share, or bookmark.
June 2014 News Wire
Interesting stories about computer science, software programming, and technology for the months of June/July 2014.
Robots!
Mindstorms, Sphero, and Robot Turtles engage kids (and families) in playing while also teaching computer science and programming.
Describe an Object, Multiplying Numbers
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Count Dots, The Orange Game, Santa’s Dirty Socks
These hands on projects teach computer science concepts without a computer. Plus links to many more projects.
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