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12 Geeky New Year’s Resolutions
Every year people make the same ridiculous New Years resolutions that they know darn well they won’t keep. Here are 12 geeky New Years resolutions that for the most part, I actually plan on keeping. Continue reading
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Tagged Arduino, DIY, Everything Else, green, Hacking the Holidays, Lego, Megacon, nerdapalooza, Star Wars
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Merry Christmas From GeekDad
Here’s hoping you and your kids gave and received many wonderful, geeky gifts that you can share with one another for the the next year and the rest of your lives. Cheers!
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GeekDad Day at the Wired Holiday Store This Saturday
If you haven’t heard the word via Twitter or elsewhere, here’s the official plug: GeekDad has been invited to curate three “GeekDad Days” at the Wired Holiday Store in New York this year, and the LAST one is this coming Saturday from 1:00pm to 2:30pm local time. We’ll be doing build challenges with LEGO bricks, […] Continue reading
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SWAT Team Takes Down Man Armed With LEGO Gun
According to the National Post, a Toronto man who happens to be a big LEGO fan, was working in a downtown office on Friday when the replica gun made from LEGO that he’d ordered from online retailer BrickGun arrived. He assembled the model and later closed his office door for a conference call and that’s when […] Continue reading
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Tagged Collecting, Lego, National Post, Police, Projects and Activities, Recreation, Star Wars, Themes, toy
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GeekDad Day at the Wired Holiday Store FTW!
If you’d been following my tweets this weekend, you might have caught on that I was traveling back to New York for something special: the first GeekDad Day at the Wired Holiday Store. With the gracious support of our friends at LEGO, and the awesome help of Lee Magpili and his amazing Mindstorms builds, it […] Continue reading
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Tagged Adafruit, Hacking the Holidays, Lego, LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0, New York, Projects and Activities, Wired, Wired Holiday Store
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Hexbug Nano + LEGO Duplo = Insane Fun
A few nights ago while doing some Christmas shopping, I came across the HEXBUG display at our local Toys R’ Us. Being interested in robotics and remembering that GeekDad’s own Anton Olsen works at Innovation First International, the company behind HEXBUG creatures, I took a chance on purchasing a Nano. It’s clear after getting home […] Continue reading
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Tagged Duplo, hexbug, Lego, nano, Science and Education, Toys and Technology
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