My 12yo is into retro gaming and has recently become obsessed with Portal. He decided he wanted to make a weighted companion cube PC case. We had a (very) old Mac Mini in a drawer that I’ve had since before he was born so we got it out and installed […]
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I’ve been wanting to build a greenhouse with my 5th grade students for a couple of years. I knew it would be a chaotic process but I finally bit the bullet and did it this winter. I’ve made the plans and materials list public and the slides I made for the […]
As an educator and school IT director, I’ve been inundated lately with AI triumphalism. Every morning, my inbox is full of emails from start-ups and legacy tech companies urging me to check out their AI EdTech products. Social media is full of EdTech ‘thought leaders’ talking about AI. The various […]
About a year ago, I decided to teach myself how to use the Godot game engine. It’s a powerful, open source engine that’s good for making 2D games like side scrollers, top-down adventure, visual novels, etc. It can do 3D too but, from what I’ve read, is no match for […]
My paternal grandmother was Danish. She died before I was born but growing up, I knew her sisters and brother–my great aunts and uncle. My great aunt Zeta made pickled beets. She always had a jar open and I would ask for them as soon as we got to her […]
My Fall CUE presentation is titled ‘Robotics + Cardboard + Hot Glue = Catapults’. Below are links to the materials. Main presentation Teaching slides
There are a lot of reasons to dislike ‘AI’ (I put quotes around it because it is artificial but it’s not intelligent). Environmental impact of pouring gasoline on the fire of global warming False claims regarding what it can do/hype bubble Deeply embedded racism Copyright infringement and theft of copyrighted […]
I’m working on a middle grade fantasy book called The Bone Flute. The book, perhaps not surprisingly, features a magical flute made from a vulture’s wing bone. I have made branch flutes and bamboo flutes but never bone so I decided to give it a try. It’s not easy to […]
I’ve never liked the band that my pixel watch came with but I also don’t really like any of the options I’ve found to replace it. So, I decided to make my own. I started by designing it in Corel Vector: I took that to the laser cutter and cut […]
One of my favorite books growing up was A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin. The original edition was illustrated with wood cuts by Ruth Robbins. I loved those illustrations. My favorite was the hawk in flight, circling above a tower keep. It’s a great scene in the book, masterfully […]
“Unions are a better invention than chatGPT” -Joan Westenberg I ran across this hand-wringing WSJ article recently which bemoans the European proclivity to enact regulations that protect people’s privacy, their health, and their way of life at the expense of being able to compete with China and the U.S. in […]
Book 2 in my Infinity Blast series is out now! More info here: https://www.bradleywwright.com/kid_books.php