When I was a little kid, I wasn’t very good at putting together models. I hated the smell of the glue you had to use, and I wasn’t coordinated. That meant my models were often a bit off. The reason for this is I was playing with the Littlebits Droid kit on Saturday. It, the Droid kit allows you to build your droid. I love that kind of stuff, in part because it is the IoT integration between the art of the possible and the art of creating. Littlebits is a really interesting company and one that I am happy to publicize and support. I’ve played with a couple of their build kits, and I find them to be professional, well built and fun. It reminds me of the days of old for me when I had the 100 in 1 Radio Shack electronics board. You could do or complete more than 100 different electronics experiments with that kit.
There are some vendors in the IoT creation space. They each start in a different part of the market. I spend time with the creators and developers of both the software and the hardware solutions I this space. Yes, it is a geeky thing for me, but it is something that I find incredibly interest right now. Today’s art of the possible in technology, is always what empowers the technology dreams of tomorrow. I used to do an IoT presentation for various high schools. A couple of times I had a drone in the back of the room, and as part of the presentation (the first time), I flew the drone over the crowd and then showed them the footage. A principal did tell me I couldn’t do that again (risky in case the drone crashed).
I did continue to fly and show the drone video, just flying the one on stage with me instead of over the audience. With stage lighting, it was less an image of the kids and more an image of the top of my head. It was a fun presentation; I should dust it off and offer to do it again. There is something incredible about presenting to interested kids (the reverse, angry and disinterested kids are really hard to reach). There are many more things available now for this overall type of presentation than there was three years ago when I stopped. The Littlebits team continues to build interesting concepts. The Droid kit is one of the more recent releases, the software and hardware are well integrated. Always fun to see a new idea start to come alive!
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Well the Lords of IoT blessed me and allow me to share this via Twitter so I’m happy with them right now ???. I was not as lucky with your other post though.
glad to IoT lords blessed you! It has been quiet around here sans pixie…
Thanks so much! We love the house, it has become our home.
Well, new to us 5 years ago. 🙂 We’ve moved quite a bit over the years.
Yeah, the global reality is slowly creating more and more of a gulf in technology implementations. Things are coming through and change is as well…
Excellent article, thanks for sharing
Thanks what was interesting? What did you like?
Thank you so much for such interesting article, as always!!! To my mind, such drones are very fun and educational gifts for children, The Droid kit is fantastic!!!
Thank you! I agree drones are a blast! Kids loving playing with them and seeing what they can do!
Good for you for trying to teach children about technology. They need more of that, especially the reverse, angry and disinterested. The drones would be fun to learn about.
They have really been interesting to watch as they expand over the last 24 months.