"Mining company Rio Tinto uses huge self-automated trucks on mines in the Pilbara region of Western Australia that are programmed to drive themselves and navigate mine roads and intersections using sensors, GPS, and radar guidance systems. The trucks self-drive but are overseen by a controller in Perth, 1800 kilometres away."

"Trucks aren't sexy, but they're critical to our economy, and there's gobs of room for improvement in their safety record and efficiency. Autonomous driving-even in a limited form-can deliver it"

Subtle motion happens around us all the time, including tiny vibrations caused by sound. New technology shows that we can pick up on these vibrations and actually re-create sound and conversations just from a video of a seemingly still object. But now Abe Davis takes it one step further: Watch him demo software that lets anyone interact with these hidden properties, just from a simple video.

"Walkalong gliding in Japan at the USUI GAKUEN I'm ENGLISH SCHOOL summer English class that involved science. This was their first time flying, using ready-to-fly gliders from sciencetoymaker. There are some exciting table landings."

You have found the non-commercial site for people who like to roll up their sleeves and make science toys and projects. You won't find slick, well-designed web pages here--more like the digital equivalent of a messy workshop. If you poke around, though, you'll find good stuff. Science toy maker is a resource for inspired kids, parents, teachers, teenagers, home schoolers, science fair participants and citizen scientists everywhere.

RCDefaultApp is a Mac OS X 10.2 or later preference pane that allows a user to set the default application used for various URL schemes, file extensions, file types, MIME types, and Uniform Type Identifiers. Handy to have

"A new product from Carnegie Mellon University's famous Robotics Institute (RI) was designed specifically to make intro classes to computer science engaging for students."

Today Nesta and the Scouts Association launch the new Digital Maker badge - bringing digital making skills to their network of 400,000 young people across the UK with a focus on creativity through computational thinking.

"A robot built with littleBits that follows a drawn line and serves treats from the snack bowl mounted on top."

"I'm filming a documentary for TV about how Uranium and radioactivity have shaped the modern world. It will be broadcast in mid-2015, details to come. The filming took me to the most radioactive places on Earth (and some places, which surprisingly aren't as radioactive as you'd think). Chernobyl and Fukushima were incredible to see as they present post-apocalyptic landscapes. I also visited nuclear power plants, research reactors, Marie Curie's institute, Einstein's apartment, nuclear medicine areas of hospitals, uranium mines, nuclear bomb sites, and interviewed numerous experts."

"SketchUp Make is still free for non-commercial use, still powerful and still under active development. We've added a batch of new features to the 2013 release of SketchUp Make"

"This is a story that involves lots of public intrigue, a futuristic wearable technology, a secret laboratory, fashion models, sky divers and an interoffice love triangle that ended a billionaire's marriage. This is the story of Google Glass."

And yet, meteorology is arguably a magnet for more than its fair share of myths.

"Google is providing its own special effects-laden documentary ... Titled 2aBack To The Moon For Good - The New Space Race, the mini-documentary is meant to give additional background on the company's Lunar XPrize contest, which is designed to inspire competing teams to land a spacecraft on the moon."

Opportunity, the decade-old Mars rover that has surprised everyone by exploring for more than a decade after its mission ended, is showing signs of slowing down. Now, NASA has a plan to hack it.

"Chris Boshuizen, an Australian physicist from country NSW, who previously worked at NASA, hopes to one day be able to count every tree on Earth."

Learn how NASA scientists are able to explore new worlds! This Mars rover, based off NASA's Opportunity, gathers and displays light information from the environment as it drives. Control it wirelessly using the remote trigger and a household remote control!

A car that races when light shines on it

Through a combination of LEGO and littleBits, we were able to create a super smart cockroach that reacts to its environment just like a real one would. It is able to navigate tricky spaces and it scurries when it is exposed to light. When it finds a dark place to hide, it lays low and stays put. 

My own Rover - just a few littleBits, cheese packs and off you go...  Done as part of my school's "HowTo" - project work.