Robogals, engaging girls in robotics.
Robogals Inc. is a not-for-profit organization, which aims to increase the number of girls undertaking science, engineering and technology courses at university. Robogals does this by engaging girls in robotics from a young age in a way that is fun and educational. The volunteer university students are trained in LEGO robotics and then visit schools to teach LEGO robotics to the students.
Robogals was founded in July 2008, and within three weeks, had enlisted the help of 80 university students. Within the next 2.5 months, Robogals taught over 120 girls from 7 schools in the state of Victoria, Australia. Since the founder moved to London, she has set it up in the United Kingdom, while the organisation has been successfully continued in Victoria, Australia, supported by the University of Melbourne and its students.
This organization has an international reach, operating in Australia and the United Kingdom.
A Real House Built Entirely from LEGO
Now I’ve heard of some kerazzy geek schemes in my time, but building an *entire* house out of LEGO seems to take the nerd-cake. Don’t get me wrong, the complete brilliance of the concept itself is staggering, but the actual execution seems….ridiculously ambitious?:
“This two-story Lego palace, which resides in the middle of a vineyard, sports a working bathroom, and is covered inside and out with bricks pieced together by 272 Legos. Over three million bricks were used to build the Lego pad, so doing some quick math here — that’s over 816 million Lego pieces! Sheesh. I wonder what they’ll do with the Legos once James moves out?”
Check out the Lego House Photos at geeksugar.
LEGO Mindstorms Sudoku Solver
You have to heart a robot that can solve Sudoku without any help from pesky humans [yay robots!]. This l’tle fella scans the puzzle box with a light sensor, computes the solutions and even writes in the answers. Beats a Roomba hands down, huh?
Visit http://tiltedtwister.com for more info.
LEGO recreation of the torture technique known as waterboarding
Who’d have thunk lego was so political! LEGO’s recreation of the torture technique known as waterboarding, which has been used by the USA in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay and Bagram airbase, as well as in other “black sites” in the name of the War On Terror.
As we now know, the CIA destroyed thousands of images and videos of interrogations using torture, including those showing waterboarding.