Teaching is one of my passions. Another is photography. I combine both during my LEGO camps. During camp, you'll see me with this camera, a gigantic flash and now a Lightbender that follows you around camp. The kids all complain about the flash, but it's nice when parents get a chance to see what's going [...]
The schedule's all set for this summer's camps. I'll be holding 4 sessions of LEGO Engineering and 2 sessions of Mindstorms Robotics. Check out the home page of YBB to see the listing of schedules and locations. Pulling together all the details can be daunting, but I like the challenge. Really the toughest part of [...]
I'm trying to secure locations for this summer's 2012 LEGO camps. I will continue to offer LEGO Engineering and Mindstorms Robotics. Depending on how much energy I have during the summer, I may look into the pneumatics add on for LEGO Engineering. Be on the lookout in the next few weeks for the new [...]
Had a conversation with a professional photographer who got the latest and greatest camera from Canon, the 5D Mark II. He says it's like a camera from another world it's so far out there technologically. It does so much for the photographer that you can get kind of lazy and actually regress in your skills [...]
I made the kids figure angles turned and distances traveled for their robots in proportion to degrees rotated. They had to do some... MATH! This was not what they were thinking when they signed up for this class. What I love about the robot calculations is that the kids actually see how to apply concepts [...]