Something Shiny and New

Something Shiny and New

When I first walked into the X-Labs classroom 12 weeks ago, I was initially overwhelmed by the very idea of the technologies we would have the opportunity to use. To me a 3D printer only existed in really high-level research facilities, or movies. Only a small number...
Makerspace: It’s Out of This World!

Makerspace: It’s Out of This World!

We don’t have desks, we have work benches. We don’t have a whiteboard, we have multi-screen teleconferencing and presentation walls. We don’t have one professor, we have seven, three of which roll around the classroom in robots called Beams. Instead of normal...
The Final Countdown

The Final Countdown

We have less than one month left of our semester. Less than one month of collaborating together in our teams. Less than one month of innovated thinking and designing related to our topics. Less than one month of building UAV’s to respond to global problems. Less than...
5 Things You Didn’t Know About The DRC

5 Things You Didn’t Know About The DRC

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the site of “Africa’s World War.” Beginning in the mid-1990s and lasting until 2003, the consecutive civil wars experienced in the DRC claimed the lives of five million people.  According to United to End Genocide , that makes...