Three Billion Birds – It’s a Big Number
Three billion birds – It’s a big number A recent report published in the journal Science indicates that there are 3 billion less birds flying around North America today than there were in...
Category: Electronics
Arduino Environmental Sensor Systems
In partnership with the University of Oregon STEMCORE program and the Oregon Science Teachers Association, the Price Science Commons hosted a workshop on building environmental sensors. I led the session with the help...
ARLISS Autonomous Navigating Robots 2019 – Trekking Across the Desert
The UOregon Rover Once again our ARLISS (A Rocket Launch for international Student Satellites) team from the University of Oregon competed in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. This annual event is inspirational for...
Eugene 4J WISE Symposium – Women in Science & Engineering
We at the DeArmond Makerspace were very happy to have an invite to speak at the Women In Science & Engineering (WISE) Symposium this year. Our talented programming, robotic, and rocketry “engineer in training”...
ORESAT – Oregon’s CubeSat MicroSatellite Project
In the late summer or early fall of 2020, the ORESAT satellite, with the help of NASA’s cubesat program, will be loaded onto what we believe will be a SpaceX Dragon rocket and...
What is Technology? – UO
Just back from the “What is Technology?” Conference up in Portland, Oregon this Weekend. What a trip. The conference was wonderful, and I met some very interesting folks and had some great conversations. ...
Sheldon Engineering
One recent partnership that has really taken off recently is our new engineering club at Sheldon High School here in Lane County, Oregon. In existence since October of 2018, we believe it is the...
Honorary Physics Fun
I was excited to see the news yesterday about my fellow science education outreach associate, Stan Micklavzina, getting an award from the Lund University in Sweden. I try to see Stan perform whenever...
Building Autonomously Navigating UAVs
It is great to see efforts pay off. Another colleague and I helped get a student building the quadcopter in this picture. The student ran with the project, finished the drone, and is now...
Caribbean Earthquakes and Slinky Seismometers
In an early post we wrote about a project where we helped science teachers from around our community build sensitive, yet inexpensive, seismometers based on a kid’s slinky and some neodymium magnets. Here...