A project to reach out to the local community, industry, and the schools, we ordered in some half-price Makeblock Airblocks with the help a favorite supplier M punkt NU. The machines can be re-configured in many ways to form copters, hovercrafts, and then….?
The ability to program them may well satisfy new technology standards for programming in the public schools. A spring and summer racing league could bring in makers, sponsorship, new designs and innovation. An HDK textile artist even suspects she might use them to weave a work in mid-air! We shall experiment, build, play, and see what happens next…