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When many of us think back to the first video game we ever played it brings pleasant memories of Pong, Super Mario, or for some younger gamers, Minecraft.  Ask anyone around you and more than likely they will have a story about the wonder of picking up a game for the first time.  Though most everyone has heard of Pac-Man and Street Fighter, not many know the history of the first commercial...

March is Women’s History Month and to celebrate we’ll be sharing the stories of amazing women who have contributed to the fields of science, math, technology, and engineering. Hedy Lamarr was a well known Hollywood starlet and her contributions to the tech world enable us to communicate securely.  While shooting huge blockbuster films she was also working on her true passion, inventing....

March is Women’s History Month and to celebrate we’ll be sharing the stories of amazing women who have contributed to the fields of science, math, technology, and engineering. Known as the “First Lady of Physics” and the “Queen of Nuclear Research” Chien-Shiung Wu was a prominent Chinese American nuclear physicist.  She worked on the Manhattan Project and taught for some of the...

March is Women’s History Month and to celebrate we’ll be sharing the stories of amazing women who have contributed to the fields of science, math, technology, and engineering. Many children daydream about becoming an astronaut, though not many see that fantasy realized.  Ellen Ochoa made her dreams come true by becoming the first female Hispanic astronaut. She is one of only 60 women that...

March is Women’s History Month and to celebrate we’ll be sharing the stories of amazing women who have contributed to the fields of science, math, technology, and engineering. Ada Lovelace, considered the first programmer, lived in mid-19th century England where she studied mathematics and science.  Her claim to fame is a translation she did for a Swiss Journal about the analytical...

To celebrate Black History Month, we’ll be focusing on African American inventors, scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and educators. Evelyn Boyd Granville is an American mathematician who has made a large impact on STEM communities with her contributions to NASA and higher education.  She studied mathematics at Yale and became the second African American woman to receive a Ph.D. in the...

To celebrate Black History Month, we’ll be focusing on African American inventors, scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and educators. At only 24 years old, Edward Alexander Bouchet became the first African American to earn a PhD. in the United States.  If that wasn’t impressive enough, he earned his degree from the prestigious Yale University in the field of physics.  He used his...

To celebrate Black History Month, we’ll be focusing on African American inventors, scientists, mathematicians, and engineers. Valerie Thomas is an American astronomer who not only worked for NASA, but invented an illusion transmitter that is used for surgery, in television screens, and was adopted by NASA scientists.  Some of her other contributions to the scientific world include managing...

To celebrate Black History Month, we'll be focusing on African American inventors, scientists, mathematicians, and engineers. Summertime wouldn't feel the same without Lonnie G. Johnson's contributions to both engineering and fun.  Johnson holds over 80 patents and is best know for inventing the Super Soaker water gun, he also designed a foam dart gun that outperformed all others on the...

This April Fools’ Day, join Do Space as we imagine what would have been featured at Do Space had we opened decades ago.  Join us on April 1st from 10am until 4pm for a day of light-hearted fun and lots of old tech. Play an Atari and the original Playstation. Test out your typing skills on a typewriter. See a computer from the 1980s and 1990s and read about early...