June 2018 Learn More Links – 30 STEM Links a Week

The command line has a programming language built into it so you can write programs that behave like the built in commands.
https://ryanstutorials.net/bash-scripting-tutorial/

Godot 3

Godot homepage

https://godotengine.org/

Godot first game tutorial

http://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.0/getting_started/step_by_step/your_first_game.html

Heartbeast’s platformer tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wETY5_9kFtA

City Building Game

Other Scratch games to look at in the genres we’re playing in:

A really well done idle clicker game

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/141654464/

A simple idle clicker game that’s a nice example

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/75793722/

An elaborate city building game with an animated tutorial

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/71983440/

Biologically Inspired Robots (Biomimicry)

Zoobots: Wild Robots Inspired by Real Animals

https://www.amazon.com/Zoobots-Wild-Robots-Inspired-Animals/dp/1554539714/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1521467164&sr=8-1&keywords=zoobots

How do Mosquitoes Fly in the Rain?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-do-mosquitoes-fly-in-the-rain-116626497/

Nanobots

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/411116/voyage-of-the-bacteria-bots/

Robotic Snakes

https://www.wired.com/story/this-robot-snake-means-you-no-harm-really/
https://newatlas.com/cmu-snake-robot-explores-nuclear-power-plant/28235/
https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2017/september/snakebot-mexico.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skF7Thm0evk

Octobots

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/08/the-first-autonomous-entirely-soft-robot/
http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/harvard-team-creates-octobot-the-worlds-first-autonomous-soft-robot
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/soft-robot-octobot-harvard
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/05/explore-octobot-soft-robot/

Research Centers

Carnegie Mellon Biorobotics Laboratory:
http://biorobotics.ri.cmu.edu/index.php
Harvard Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering:
https://wyss.harvard.edu/

Ciphers: the Enigma Code

Count On: Codebreaking: The Enigma Cipher

http://www.counton.org/explorer/codebreaking/enigma-cipher.php

Imperial War Museums: How Alan Turing Cracked The Enigma Code

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-alan-turing-cracked-the-enigma-code

Khan Academy: The Enigma encryption machine

https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-science/cryptography/crypt/v/case-study-ww2-encryption-machines

Making the Leap with Coding Challenges

Code.org CS Principles course

https://studio.code.org/courses/csp

Other Useful Challenges

Codingbat.com
codewars.com

Architecture of Radio

The Architecture of Radio

http://www.architectureofradio.com/
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/architecture-of-radio/id1035160239?ls=1&mt=8
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.richardvijgen.architectureofradioAndroid

Richard Vijgen

http://www.richardvijgen.nl/

The Architecture of Radio Video

https://vimeo.com/136611737

OpenCellID

http://opencellid.org/
http://wiki.opencellid.org/wiki/What_is_OpenCellID
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCellID

Infosphere

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infosphere

Elm

Purescript, another language that compiles to JavaScript but looks like Haskell

The Elm site

Mozilla’s guides to web programming the CSS/HTML/JavaScript way

A book on Haskell, one of the languages that inspired Elm

Clarissa’s repository of example Elm code

Sith Detector

Types of Sensors

Micro:bit

JavaScript Blocks Resources

Harry Potter and the Predictive Keyboard

Botnik Studios

Article about Predictive Keyboards on Phones

TEDx Talk about combining art and neural networks

Neural Networks in depth

When will robots write like humans?

XKCD comics about predictive keyboards

Random Turtle Stamps

Intro to Python with Turtle

Other activities with Python and Turtle:

Python resources:

Article from “Wired” about Visualizing Randomness:

Maze-Solving Algorithms

Article about How to Escape a Maze

Visual Example of Tremaux’s Algorithm

Video about Depth-First Search

Online Maze Generators

Dinosaurs

What is 3D printing?

The Calvert Marine Museum

What are fossils?

3D Printing with Metal

3D metal printing services

About 3D printing

3D Printing Materials: Pros and Cons

Redstone

About Redstone

Information about Mechanisms

Lamps

Escher Tiles

SketchUp Make

my.sketchup

Other SketchUp activities

Command Line Interfaces (CLI)

A good tutorial that takes a faster pace

The “man” command (short for manual)

Bash