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OpenSSL version 1.0.2 released!
The folks over at the OpenSSL Project have announced the release of OpenSSL version 1.0.2. The OpenSSL project team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.2 of our open source toolkit for...
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Unseen Alan Turing Notebook will be Auctioned in April
While we’d love to get our hands on this, we wonder if it comes with a companion or manual to walk the buyer through Turing’s genius scribblings… The Guardian reports: A rare notebook of Alan Turing’s...
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Coder Creates the Smallest Game of Chess
Coder Olivier Poudade created BootChess, the smallest chess computer game in the world. via BBC: BootChess is only 487 bytes in size, and the code can be run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux computers....
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The Queen of Code #WomenInSTEM @GillianJacobs
FiveThirtyEightLife posted this great video directed Gillian Jacobs – check it out here! You probably don’t know the name Grace Hopper, but you should. As a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, Hopper...
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Update your Raspbian SD cards for the Raspberry Pi 2 with just four commands...
Thorin Klosowski from Lifehacker shares four simple commands to update your Raspbian SD cards for the Raspberry Pi 2. The Raspberry Pi 2 is a serious upgrade over older versions, and that means you’ll...
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Tutorial: Getting Arduino Data to a Web Page
Check out this super handy tutorial from dkschottt on instructables! Being new to Arduino I was a bit overwhelmed by the different ways to do things. So this is what I came up with! I am using an...
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Meet the cyber warrior ‘princess’ who guards Google #WomenInSTEM #WHM15...
CNN.com has the story on ‘security princess’ Parisa Tabriz, who guards Google. Awesome! In fairy tales, it’s usually the princess that needs protecting. At Google’s headquarters in Silicon Valley, the...
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Google Open Source Blog: Google Summer of Code now open for student...
Thanks to Alex for writing in to let us know that the Google Summer of Code is now accepting student applications! Alex writes: I’m biased, but I’d draw particular attention to the project ideas we...
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The GitHub for Kids Urges Them to Be Inventors, Not Users #makereducation
Last week, WIRED published an interesting piece about Kano and its philosophy that encourages kids to build and make rather than consume. The article focuses specifically on Kano World, a branch of...
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This Startup Pays African Students To Learn How To Code #makereducation
Interesting article in FastCoExist on the educational startup Andela: “One of the key insights here was realizing that the best engineering schools in the world, the ones that companies want to hire...
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What is Code?
We highly recommend checking out Paul Ford’s epic piece today on Bloomberg Businessweek that attempts to break down what exactly code is, how it works, and the different ways it informs all of our...
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Leap Motion + Raspberry Pi 2 #iLuvPi2 #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi
The code for Leap Motion controller on Raspberry Pi 2. via tagenigma The Leap Motion Controller requires ARM-9 or better and to make work with the Raspberry PI 2 I used a proxy HTTP server to work...
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As Tech Booms, Workers Turn to Coding for Career Change #makereducation
The New York Times ran a piece on coding as the hot as ever destination for career changes last week in their Technology section. “These are skilled and ambitious people who are seeking an on-ramp to...
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Surfing the Internet from my TRS-80 Model 100 @Raspberry_Pi #piday #raspberrypi
Great write-up from Sean Gallagher on arstechnica. The true test of a man’s patience is crimping pins onto the end of a cable that leads to building a custom serial cable—especially if it’s the first...
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Simon Says with LEDs! #makereducation
This tutorial from JColvin91 looks like a great classroom project (and then activity)! At one point or another, the vast majority of us have all played the “Simon Says” game. In this game, one person,...
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What coding class should I take: Programming is like learning a new language...
Great read from Victoria Fine on Slate that discusses learning code in and out of the classroom. That’s when the first light bulb went off. I started to learn that, unlike my math classes of yore,...
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Drive Adafruit’s PWM hat from C# #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi
Thanks to Konstantin for converting the Adafruit Python library for the PWM Raspberry Pi hat into C#! Check it out here. I can drive Adafruit PWM hat from C#! I converted Adafruit python code...
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Watch Code And Projections Bring A Paper Sculpture To Life #ArtTuesday
Tesela Interactive Paper Sculpture from lasal on Vimeo. Paper art doesn’t have to be flat and lifeless… just ask Aristides Garcia. The artist recently created an interactive sculpture, Tesela, that...
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Tampon Run: The world’s only tampon video game made by teenage girls...
Tampon Run is a game created by High Schools Andy and Sophie through the Girls Who Code program. Fast Co wrote a piece on the creators of the game here if you are interested in more information!...
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Jennifer Pahlka #ALD1 @findingada
Founder and Executive Director of Code for America, Jennifer Pahlka is a rock star role model for innovators everywhere. She’s worn and continues to wear an impressive array of hats: recipient of...
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