Today we celebrate Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, the First Woman PhD in Computer Science who was also a Nun. Mental Floss has a story on her here: Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, born in Ohio in 1914, entered the Sisters of...

via Built Environment Hub Maela is a Civil Engineer at Pick Everard, a growing multi-disciplinary consultancy in the property and construction sector with over 450 employees across 11 UK offices. After being selected to attend access summer schools in Finland...

Berkeley researches are developing a system to extract atmospheric water from extremely arid climates. The device uses solar energy and relies on metal-organic frameworks. Via Smithsonian: The key to the water harvester is a new class of materials called metal-organic...

Instagram account SheCanEngineer profiles women in engineering – from historical profiles to contemporary civil and mechanical engineers to students studying to be future engineers. Their profiles are focused on British-based members of ICE, IChemE, IMechE, and other organizations. Here are...

From The Atlantic: This year’s Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting and prayer, will come to a close with Eid al-Fitr, the festival of the breaking of the fast, on June 14. For the past month, Muslims around the world...

Celebrating Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer, one of the six original programmers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. From the Engineering and Technology Wiki: Marlyn Meltzer was born as Marlyn Wescoff. After graduating from Temple University in 1942, she was hired by the...

via Game Design Aspect In Ernest Cline’s bestselling novel, Ready Player One, the main character Wade Watts describes his online lessons on the virtual planet Ludus.  Unlike the online courses of today, which mostly consist of videos, forums, and multiple...

From LEGO Ideas: This is a Hasselblad 503CX Film Camera. I Lego-designed this camera because I am also a photographer and this camera has been one of my favorites. I love the manual mechanisms of this particular camera very much....

Valerie Davidson is blazing a trail for female engineers. She is the founder of the Ontario Network of Women in Engineering and a professor for 25 years, via McMasterUniversity As a student, a researcher and an academic, Valerie Davidson has...

Via FiT A series of photos by The Guardian that shows an aerial view of the rental bikes removed by authorities in Chinese cities such as Beijing, Nanjing, Wuhan and Shanghai and the patterns they create. These shared bikes, which...

via National Geographic Gangolf Ulbricht is one of the last papermakers in Europe that is still making his craft by hand. He uses wood-free fibers like cotton, flax, hemp, rags, and Manila hemp as the foundation for his creations. In...

Today is International Women in Engineering Day and we will be celebrating in the blog all day long! The theme this year is ‘Raising the Bar.’ Every hour we will have new post featuring an important or influential woman in...

via DC Multiverse Historian “For a long time, every DC comic had something like this, a little half- or full-page filler like “Flash Facts” or “Metal Facts and Fancies”, possibly so that they could claim some portion of their content...

Assistive Tech web interface for target practice at gun range with Raspberry Pi, Pi Wing (FEATHER adapter and CRICKIT) …. (video). As seen on the show and tell! This quick video shows how we automated a pistol for Mike Phillips...

Creative Robotics chat with Ladyada! (video) at Hackaday!https://hackaday.io/event/159006-creative-and-interactive-robotics-chathttps://hackaday.io/messages/room/272719

Are you subscribed to the Adafruit Youtube channel? If you’re not already subscribed, click here! http://adafru.it/subscribe . It’s a free and easy way to keep up with our newest episodes. Here’s some of what we’re up to. Electronics Show and...

Via Microsoft Developer on YouTube: Running artificial intelligence directly on IoT devices seems like something straight out of sci-fi movies, right? It’s now something you can do pretty easily with Azure IoT Edge. And thanks to the Custom Vision Cognitive...

I haven’t seen Tommy Lutz on the water or west side bike path yet but now I’ll be on the lookout – would love the see the boat up close, which looks light but durable: (Tommy’s story is the first...

Ronald Nelson shared this project on Youtube! This video is part of a series where I show how I build an automated, bioactive vivarium. In this video I build the lighting panel. There are LED 14 lights in total all...

Simple project – and good tip about guizero – from stuffaboutcode for creating stop motion animations using a simple python script. You can see the source code here and follow the simple step-by-step tut here. In preparation for a Raspberry...

via PiMyLifeUp This tutorial is perfect for anyone who loves video games, but something like the Raspberry Pi retro game emulator is a little too old school for you. With this, you will be able to play most modern games,...

New Products 6/20/2018 Featuring Adafruit RGB Matrix Shield for Arduino! (Video) Ruby the Red LED Limited Edition Enamel Pin (0:12) Billie the Blue LED Limited Edition Enamel Pin (0:12) Gus the Green LED Limited Edition Enamel Pin (0:12) Crickit Sticker...

This art project tweets a photo of the same plant every single day using a Raspberry Pi. It has been tweeting now for over 2 years. You can follow the account @grow_slow and check out the concept and build details...

Apple has been delivering major AR advancements to developers at a rapid pace since ARKit shipped last fall, and this is already the third major release. ARKit gives developers the tools to create AR experiences that change the way iOS...