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Back from Maker Faire Ruhr
Maker Faires are fun and offer exciting topics for everyone. You only need to be a little curious and in the mood to learn something new – then a Maker Faire will be a great enrichment for you from which you will profit and develop expertise. We’ve just returned from the Maker Faire Ruhr and […]
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Flashback 2015
What happened in 2015? The year started with a series of new experiments on Facebook. From this moment on we asked you to send us your own circuits made of bricks. We announced our first Frequency Measurement Brick in February and proudly presented it on the following trade shows. Furthermore, our “Let’s build” series started […]
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Testing of new brick
Today we have a new blog post for the makers among you. It’s by Rolf-Dieter, the inventor of our bricks, who tested a new brick lately. To illustrate it a little more for you he made a short video that you can check out here: https://youtu.be/7X1rgUosuVs Below you can see the example code to generate […]
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Young visitors at Maker Store Berlin
On Tuesday, we had a group of visitors in our Maker Store in Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg: a number of young pupils and a qualified IT specialist who teaches them about technology and programming once a week. Pawel had passed our store several times already and eventually simply asked us if it was possible to take […]
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The myth of the first 20 sets
It is the year 2014, it is October 27. I’m receiving an email at 9:10 am: “The bricks will arrive today…it’s looking good…We will put them together in my office. We’ll try building 20 sets. Thank you.” I generate them into our merchandise management system and read about what the brick mini sets contain: LEDs, […]
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Learntec 2016 – Learning with IT
Last week we presented our bricks to the public at Learntec in Karlsruhe – the international trade fair for learning with IT. Learntec focused on internal training via e-learning and video. The associated congress dealt with the topic “Future learning: Digital culture of learning” and discussed the question whether innovative systems of learning encourage learning […]
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Berlin calling: News from the flagship store in Berlin
Our flagship store in Berlin is growing and thriving. We are happy to announce that we have received our first supply of controllable LEDs. And not a moment too soon – people have been asking about them all week – now everybody can come and check them out. What are our controllable LEDs capable of? […]
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Munich´s inventors: Make Munich
Last weekend, time has come once more and South Germany’s largest Maker festival took place in Bavaria’s capital again. After a one and a half year break, Munich opened its gates for tinkerers, nerds, geeks and makers to show them a variety of DIY projects and futuristic ideas such as 3D printers or robot football. […]
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