Vertical Garden

Thanks to our great students and colleagues, we’re well on our way to designing and implementing a vertical garden for the ILC.  This addition to the ILC brings together elements of design (txs Serveh), trades (txs Rick), air quality, learning environments, belongingness (txs Angela), and curricular ties …

These images are from a facinating resturant in Cape Town, South Africa.  Check out their site on urban farming – http://www.moyo.co.za/restaurant-moyo-va-waterfront/aquaponics.aspx

Little bits

This is way too cool …

littleBits is an opensource library of electronic modules that snap together with tiny magnets for prototyping, learning, and fun.

littleBits (spelled lower case L, upper case B, all one word) consists of tiny circuit-boards with specific functions engineered to snap together with magnets. No soldering, no wiring, no programming, just snap together for prototyping, learning and fun. Each bit has a specific function (light, sound, sensors, buttons, thresholds, pulse, motors, etc), and modules snap to make larger circuits. Just as LEGO™ allows you to create complex structures with very little engineering knowledge, littleBits are small, simple, intuitive, blocks that make creating with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small magnets together.

Crave creativity? Make something! Light it, push it, turn it, twist it, bend it, buzz it, blink it, shake it…

With a growing number of available modules, littleBits aims to move electronics from late stages of the design process to its earliest ones, and from the hands of experts, to those of artists, makers, students and designers.

To see what you can make, check out community.

To come up with your own Bits, check out dreamBits.

For education, press and distributor inquiries, contact us.

http://littlebits.com/momastore

http://littlebits.com/