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Speak in Code? There’s Nothing Secret About It.
November 23rd, 2015 |
If you can learn how to drive, create a football play, or follow Ikea furniture instructions, than you can learn how to code. It requires effort on your part to learn, but you don’t have to be a rocket scientist.
Coding is essentially the language of technology. Just as learning how to read and write enables you to learn, create and share ideas, coding allows you to bring ideas to life in...
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Hiccup Pops? Genius.
November 23rd, 2015 |
Ever wanted to tackle a problem that could improve your life or the lives of others? Good, because you’re in good company. Meet Mallory Kievman.
Along with being a young inventor, Mallory is a young entrepreneur as well (remember, Do Space also has start-up resources). During the summer of 7th grade, Mallory had one case of the hiccups after another. While some traditional cures worked, she...
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Meet Spot
November 20th, 2015 |
We know you’re busy, but making time to watch the video below is worth it. The clip shows a robot dog/deer/animal named Spot. Invented by Boston Dynamics (now a Google company) it’s one of the most advanced legged robots around. One day it could work with soldiers, construction crews, rescue teams and even be a security device.
For everyone under the age of ten reading this blog, Spot is...
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The Best Slogan Ever
November 20th, 2015 |
After the launch of Sputnik in 1957 by the Russians, the US was determined to never be behind in technology again. DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency was founded immediately and it’s been creating the future ever sense. This little thing called the Internet, you can thank DARPA for that.
Today they work on the most outlandishly advanced projects like hypersonic space...
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Get Into Your Discomfort Zone
November 20th, 2015 |
No matter who you are, you can remember a time when a parent or friend pushed you to do something that was out of your comfort zone. Whether that was broccoli or bungee jumping, the experience is fixed in your mind, a reference point for other new experiences. At some point in our lives, however, we can become a little hesitant when it comes to new things.
But that’s not the Do Space way....
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3D Printing that Builds More than Ideas
November 20th, 2015 |
Let’s start with the metaphor of printing ink on paper. As the cartridge moves across the page, a layer of pigment creates the letter z. Now let’s say this printer does the same pass again and again, over the same letter z pattern. Eventually, there would be so many layers of ink that the letter would start to rise vertically off the page. Now imagine the “ink” is ceramic, steel,...
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IoT: Apps for Everyday Objects
November 17th, 2015 |
In the broadest terms, the Internet is about light-speed connectivity between people, media and companies. With the Internet, ideas, data and money can be exchanged across the globe almost instantly.
The Internet of things (IoT) is the next step in rapid communication as everyday objects with sensors and microchips will collect data and share it with other everyday objects, or things. Some...
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Wearable Tech: Revolution or Evolution?
November 17th, 2015 |
If we really wanted to get nerdy about wearable technology (and we do), we’d point out that wearable tech has been around for thousand of years. The first fibers woven to create cloth were (1) wearable and (2) a new technology for the time. Down through history, wearable technology continued to advance as blacksmiths hammered out armor to when Elizabeth I of England received one of the first...
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How Smart Will Computers Become?
November 17th, 2015 |
In 1965, Raymond Moore (co-founder of Intel) predicted that computer processing speed would double roughly every two years. So far, that’s proven to be true. Computers have gone from the size of a room to roughly the size of a book, phones are now “smart” and wearable tech is more and more common. Now we’re at the point where things really get interesting as the processing speeds we’re...
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Yoda. Right Was He?
November 15th, 2015 |
In the movie The Empire Strikes Back, Yoda dispenses a little Jedi advice to a self-defeating Luke who says, “I’ll give it a try.” Yoda responds with, “Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.” What!? We couldn’t disagree more! Trying is the first step of doing anything. In fact, success is sometimes only found after you try a thousand times. At Do Space we encourage you to try as many...
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