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Kauai Labs will again be presenting the “Inventing with Software and Electronics” class from June 15 – July 20, 2012 to be hosted at the Island School campus behind the Kauai Community College (KCC). This class is open from ages 10 to 100 and is a great opportunity to gain hands-on experience with the invention process – by designing …
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The Inventing with Software and Electronics class is underway and the students are having a great time. The curriculum, in an entertaining slide format, is now available on-line.
Many thanks to Ava Zbezda, one of Kauai’s young inventors in this summer’s “Inventing with Software and Electronics” class, for alerting us to this incredible new invention! A team at the MIT Media Lab has created one of the simplest ever tools for inventors – a simple circuit board that can transform almost anything into a button. Imagine …
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The Create the Future 2012 Design Challenge contest is open from now until June 30, 2012. This contest was started in 2002 by the publishers of NASA Tech Briefs, and is open to the public – featuring a Grand Prize of $20,000 as well as a number of smaller prizes. The Design Challenge website is now …
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NASA’s “Summer of Innovation” Mini-Grant Program has awarded a grant via the Kauai Robotics Alliance to fund two seminar type sessions where Kauai’s middle school and high school students will become familiar with the NASA Mars rover programs. More details on this “space grant” are available at the “Summer of Innovation” website.
At last, it seems there’s something our divided government leaders can agree to and work together on. This Thursday (April 5, 2012) President Obama signed new legislation aimed at simplifying the process of raising investment capital for small businesses (less than $1 million in revenues/year). It’s encouraging to see our government take positive, bi-partisan …
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Kauai Robotics Alliance (KRA) The Kauai Robotics Alliance (KRA) is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization. The Kauai Robotics Alliance raises funds from local and off island sources to support robotics for Kauai’s students. The Kauai Robotics Alliance is composed of educators, community leaders and volunteers dedicated to these goals. Kauaibots Kauaibots is an island-wide high-school robotics …
Kauai Labs partners with Kauai’s educators to help develop and present classes and other educational opportunities to Kauai’s innovators. Kauai Labs is dedicated to “open source curriculum”, enabling anyone with sufficient passion to teach Kauai’s entrepreneurs. If you’re interested in learning – or teaching – the principles, skills and attitudes of innovation, contact KauaiLabs. Kauai …
Kauai Labs has just announced an “Innovating with Software and Electronics” class from June 16 – July 21, 2012 to be hosted at the Island School campus behind the Kauai Community College (KCC). This class is open from ages 10 to 100 and is a great opportunity to gain hands-on experience with the invention process – by …
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Kauai Labs performs ongoing research into cutting-edge electronics, sensing and software technologies, with a focus on making these technologies accessible to robotics students for use within autonomous robot navigation systems. Our key technology focus: inexpensive electronics, sensors and advanced algorithms for precision “orientation”, “localization” (both relative and absolute) and “mapping” in both indoor and outdoor environments. …