Now that school is out for summer, families are about to cram into cars together on their way to the beach, the Grand Canyon, or that shining metropolis in the travel guide Mom bought six months ago. The family road trip is a rite of passage akin to the hero’s journey into the underworld, where [...] Read more
Posts by Ricky Cadden
Maker Faire Bay Area 2012 – Center Stage
While Maker Faire has a seemingly endless supply of things to see (check out our Maker Faire photo album on Facebook), they also have a few stages throughout the event, with talks from some of the awesome people in the community. I spent a few hours at the Center Stage enjoying some of these talks, [...] Read more
Get Amped Up for Maker Faire Bay Area
RadioShack is gearing up for our trip to Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend, and we couldn’t be more excited. If you’ve never been to Maker Faire before, it’s essentially a huge showcase of all the cool, creative technology projects from the maker/DIY community. There are 3D printers, Arduino-powered robots, Tesla coils and even a [...] Read more
Finding the Perfect Gift for Mom
With all the things that moms do, every day of the year ought to be Mother’s Day. Before you phone in your Mother’s Day gift for mom this year by getting flowers and a card, take a minute and reflect on what goes into her job. Mom is like the administrative assistant, nurse, janitor, mediator, [...] Read more
Ridin’ the Storm Out — 5 Essential Weather Preparedness Apps
Hunker in your bunker folks, because once again tornado season is here and hurricane season is on its way. There are definitely going to be storms a-brewin’ this summer whether you’re inland or on the coast. But, never fear, RadioShack is here to help you ride the storms out. We have all the batteries, solar [...] Read more
The HTC One X Lands At RadioShack And CTIA Wireless
Today is an exciting day at RadioShack – the HTC One X for AT&T is now available at your local RadioShack! This smartphone packs a dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor that most reviewers have said is the fastest and most battery efficient processor on the block. It’s also running the latest version of Android, v4.0 (also [...] Read more
Jerry Heep Lights up RadioShack HQ
[embedplusvideo standard="http://www.youtube.com/v/pNvlqtP5b5Q" height="343" width="560" /] Jerry Heep has been a RadioShack Staff Engineer for over three decades, and in that time he’s designed and built modems, multimeters and all kinds of other products you can find in every RadioShack store. He’s a master of his craft and a hacker of the highest order. If you [...] Read more
High School Makerspaces: Q&A with MAKE’s Dale Dougherty
Dale Dougherty, editor and publisher of MAKE magazine, has a mission—to bring a culture of making to America’s high schools. In Dale’s view, education nowadays is too concerned with memorizing facts. Students rarely, if ever, have the opportunity to CREATE anything with the knowledge they learn from textbooks, unless one counts interesting patterns on a [...] Read more