Schlagwort: kids

  • Talking Baymax inflatable robot greets kids at the pediatrician’s office

    Talking Baymax inflatable robot greets kids at the pediatrician’s office

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    Talking Baymax inflatable robot greets kids at the pediatrician’s office

    Arduino Team — October 2nd, 2018

    At Jason Poel Smith’s local pediatrician’s office, they have a variety of movie posters and displays to help make the environment more welcoming to kids. The most popular of them all is a huge inflatable Baymax robot character from the Disney movie Big Hero 6. 

    While a beautiful display, Smith decided that what would make it even better is if it could talk, and went to work adding this functionality with an Arduino Uno, an MP3 shield, and a very large button. 

    Now when kids arrive, they can hit the button to hear Baymax welcome them to the office as their “personal healthcare companion” via a pair of powered speakers. 

    Arduino code and more info is available here, if you’d like to build something similar!

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    Website: LINK

  • I Made These Papercut Illustrations For My Daughter’s Room

    I Made These Papercut Illustrations For My Daughter’s Room

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    I’ve created this series of adorable and whimsical paper-cut illustrations of colorful animals as a personal project to complement our daughter’s room and I really fell in love working with paper.

    I used a simple layering technique, hand cutting each of the colored papers after they have been sketched, and gluing them to kapaline boards (foam boards, for those of you who are not familiar) to add depth, and then mounting within a square frame to add the final touches. My inspiration can be found through some of my favorite illustrators and my favorite movies.

    More info: Etsy | vaclavbicha.com

    Whales

    My favorite theme is ocean and sea, so it didn’t took me long to come up with this idea.

    Sloth mother and her baby

    Koala bear

    Sketch for Koala bear

    Exogoroth

    Skecthes for Exogoroth

    Empire strikes back is my most favorite movie of all time, so when I decided to do some papercut illustration on SW theme this was must do, I’ve also did other monsters from SW universe like Diagona or Wampa.

    Wampa

    These are available on Etsy

    Website: LINK

  • ThingMaker is a 3D Printer for Kids

    ThingMaker is a 3D Printer for Kids

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    We try out ThingMaker from Mattel, their new Autodesk partnered 3D printing toy/product for children.

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  • LEGO Full Functional IKO Prosthetic Arm!

    LEGO Full Functional IKO Prosthetic Arm!

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    „Torres then flew to Bogota to test out the design on an eight-year-old Colombian boy named Dario, who had suffered a congenital malformation and had his right arm amputated as a result. On the lighter side, one of the Lego sets Torres brought along was a spaceship fitted with a laser-imitating light brick. On the slightly more practical, but still awesome side was a construction backhoe, which required a power function compatible with the that of the muscle module. Torres says the testing exceeded his expectations and he is starting the process of developing a commercial product. He was unable to give any hints on what such a system might cost, but says they are hopeful it will become available sometime between December 2016 and mid-2017,“ reports Gizmag.


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  • Mad Max Power Wheels Desert Drifters Might be Coolest Vehicles for Kids Yet!

    Mad Max Power Wheels Desert Drifters Might be Coolest Vehicles for Kids Yet!

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    The Mad Max Power Wheels Desert Drifters started as a ThinkGeek April Fools‘ Day joke, but now they’ve become a reality, or at least in prototype form, thanks to the guys at Nerdist. Each model comes complete with everything you’d expect from Fury Road. Whether it be spikes to spears, these vehicles have all the weapons one needs to survive in a world of dystopia. That’s not all, there’s even a cargo compartment to hold all of your survival gear on the road. The vehicles have a top speed of 7.5 mph on the open road, along with an MFP-Lock Braking System.

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  • Batmobile Baby Stroller (The Dark Knight) – SUPER-FAN BUILDS

    Batmobile Baby Stroller (The Dark Knight) – SUPER-FAN BUILDS

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    Parents who actually have to deal with kids and all of their accessories will probably be quick to point out that this non-folding stroller will be all but impossible to fit in the trunk of a car. But that doesn’t make this build any less awesome. In fact, who wouldn’t be tempted to tear the seats out of the back of their car if it meant you could push this amazing creation around the mall for an afternoon?

    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX7vZTLFfMs

  • 20 Geeks Who Captured Kids Doing Weird and Random Things

    20 Geeks Who Captured Kids Doing Weird and Random Things

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    It’s not weird to dress up in a superhero costume for Halloween, but when your child wants to be a mailbox, that is definitely something worth capturing and then sharing with the internet. We have rounded up twenty more geeks who captured kids doing weird and random things for your viewing enjoyment.

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    Official Source: http://www.pleated-jeans.com/2013/11/19/20-more-images-that-prove-kids-are-weird/

  • 5 Amazing Inventions Created by Geeky Kids and Teens

    5 Amazing Inventions Created by Geeky Kids and Teens

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    Most teens are worrying about prom and making new friends, these five spent all of their free time inventing things, such as a super fast gadget charger, self-driving care, and lots more. We’ve rounded up five amazing inventions created by geeky kids and teens from around the world.

    5. Banana Bioplastic

    Sixteen-year-old Turkish student-scientist Elif Bilgin, from Istanbul, spent the last two years experimenting with ways to produce a bioplastic out of used banana peels. Thankfully, all her hard work paid off. She is the winner of the 2013 $50,000 Science in Action award from the Google Science Fair. Elif says that the banana bioplastic could be used for the electrical insulation of cables.

    4. Self-Driving Car

    Ionut Budisteanu may look like your normal 19-year-old teen from Istanbul, but unlike the others, he developed a low-cost self-driving car. His autonomous system utilizes webcams to identify objects in its path, paired with a low-resolution 3D radar to find larger items. Best of all, this camera setup only costs $4,000, rather than Google’s $75,000 system.

    3. Super Fast Gadget Charger

    A miniature device that can recharge your phone in just 30-seconds won 18-year-old Eesha Khare a major science award that will help fund her college education at Harvard University. She traveled from her California home to Phoenix earlier this year for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, where her invention was honored as one of two winners of Young Scientist Awards.

    2. Thermoelectric Flashlight

    Fifteen-year-old Ann Makosinski from Canada designed and built a thermoelectric flashlight that transforms the heat from your hand into a source of energy. In order for the flashlight to be powered by body energy, Ann used Peltier tiles — a device that produces energy when one side is heated and another side is cooled. Apparently, the light can last for about 20 minutes.

    1. R5800 Solar Death Ray

    Geeky student Eric Jacqmain created this solar death ray using a normal satellite dish and 5,800 small mirrors. It took only 24-hours to built from start to finish, and purportedly has the intensity of 5,000 suns. Jacqmain says: „I drilled a small hole in the dish and glued a piece of PVC pipe on the back. Light shines through the hole and hits the translucent plastic on the end of the pipe. All I had to do was aim the dish once and mark the spot.“

  • Nintendo reportedly working on an educational Android tablet

    Nintendo reportedly working on an educational Android tablet

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    Nintendo seems to be working on an Android tablet meant to be used primarily for educational purposes.

    Nando Monterazo, a Software Engineer at Nintendo of America, shared via Twitter that the company is testing out the device, but it won’t feature traditional Nintendo games and will instead be for educational games only. However, Monterazo did mention that the games would be featuring Nintendo characters.

    Here are some of his tweets:

    Experimenting with a tablet of Nintendo, the system is based on android, fully modified and unified as a database of the tablet. #Android

    At the moment just testing communication environment of educational games that will be shared between the kids using the tablet! #Tablet

    Nintendo is testing only the „Android“ but in fact she wants a system written in C/C++ in a Unix environment for the system single tablet!

    Many people will be wondering if games „Nes“, „SNES“ or „Game Boy“ the tablet will not have these games, educational games only! #Tablet

    It is, a tablet with educational games for children with Nintendo characters….

    …now the tablet is primarily focused for schools!! 🙂

    Monterazo’s tweets have been deleted since the news broke, but this morning, he tweeted,„Amazing how the internet is dangerous, in my excitement I released information that should not, Now I’m out of the project who liked!“. Oops.

    Keep in mind that there’s nothing official yet. A company representative only said that „Nintendo does not comment on rumors or speculation“.

    Official Source: http://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-preparing-a-tablet-for-schools-plays-educational-games/

    http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/11/20/nintendo-reportedly-experimenting-with-an-android-tablet?utm_campaign=ign+main+twitter&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social