The Birth of Adobe Photoshop Adobe Photoshop, launched in 1988 by Thomas and John Knoll, revolutionized the world of digital image editing and design. Initially created as a simple program to display grayscale images on a black-and-white screen, Photoshop quickly became the industry standard for photo manipulation and graphic design. Read more…
Robots are becoming a bigger part of our world every day. Here’s a simple look at what we might see in the future with robots, and why it’s both super cool and a bit worrying. Right now, robots mostly do repetitive jobs in factories, but they’re starting to do more. Read more…
In the world of robotics, there are certain iconic robots that have left an indelible mark on the field, and one of these is the PUMA 560. PUMA, which stands for Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly, is a series of robotic arms developed by Unimation, and the PUMA 560 was Read more…
Nuclear fission is the process of splitting the nucleus of an atom into two or more smaller nuclei, along with the release of a large amount of energy. This energy is released in the form of heat and light, as well as other forms of radiation. The process is the Read more…
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. Among the many events hosted by the IEEE is their annual GameSIG competition. When we hosted the VR Battleship game with the special needs class at Read more…
Virtual Reality the computer-generated simulation of a three-dimensional environment that you can interact with. In other words, Virtual Reality allows you to experience real world experiences through a computer or phone. If you watch a VR roller coaster, you are not actually in a roller coaster but it feels like Read more…
I recently decided to enter my school’s World No Tobacco Day Poster Competition. There were two different competitions. One was a Poster Competition and the other was a Tobacco and Vaping Prevention Slogan and Graphic Design Contest. The rules of the Slogan and Graphic Design Contest were to create a Read more…
A transistor is a semiconductor device that is commonly used as an electronic switch in circuits. Transistors are like electronic switches. They are both useful in simple applications, like using a single transistor to allow a Raspberry Pi to control a device that requires a lot of current to operate, Read more…
Push buttons are commonly used in circuits to turn on a component while pressed or give signals to a microcontroller via GPIO pins. Push buttons have four different pins, with two on each side. The pins that are across from each other are internally connected. This means that if one Read more…
Light Emitting Diodes, LEDs, are a special kind of diode. Without going into the specifics, a diode is a semiconductor that only allows current to flow through it in one direction. LEDs also only allow current to flow in one direction. However, they are different because they emit light as Read more…
