Curious Inventor (http://www.curiousinventor.com) is offering a free "PanVise Junior Clamp" at the moment if you link to them. So here goes [LINK].
Last night I got an email from Shawn over at [http://www.arduinofun.com/]. Shawn’s built a cool robot using various bits and pieces, including the arduino with Curious Inventor as his supplier. The coolest thing about this is he’s built it with his 11 year old son Drew. This is great on so many levels and I can’t think of anything better than mentoring a child in this manner.
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"The fool is proud of the one thing he knows…"

foolstr is a new website, located at www.foolstr.com. It’s all about the Wisdom of Crowds. foolstr lets you publish your ideas, lessons learned and get feedback from the community. It’s a simple social site, intended to gather up collective wisdom.

foolstr is innovative in that it relies on OpenID as its form of authentication. This …

Kids are like giant sponges. I finally got my Arduino powered RGB LED Matrix soldered together and firing on all cylinders last night. I wrote a simple interface in Processing and then showed the kids after lunch today. Within about 30seconds they were having fun turning on and off lights. Here’s the result:

They saw how things were linked together, how a click on the screen lit a dot on the matrix and it was simple enough but yet they could quickly make shapes and letters. They got a …