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
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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
Calculus & Soda Bottles – Jerry Heep on Electrical Engineering
[embedplusvideo standard="http://www.youtube.com/v/8TvpyzzwD44" height="343" width="560" /] Jerry Heep has been a RadioShack Staff Engineer since the days of the Tandy TRS-80. He’s worked on all kinds of cool gadgets, and products that he designed are on RadioShack store shelves across the country. We asked Jerry to impart some wisdom to those who want to learn to [...] Read more
A Mississippi RadioShack Invaded by Robots
On a frigid February day in Pearl, Mississippi, a group of 15- and 16-year-old high school students braved the 30-degree cold to set up shop in front of the local RadioShack. Their goal—to show off the 18-inch crate-stacking, racquet ball-grabbing robot they designed and built together. Despite the less than ideal weather, the team endured [...] Read more
Jerry Heep’s Lost Loves Left on the Workbench
[embedplusvideo standard="http://www.youtube.com/v/VNF_TCI7vT8" height="343" width="560" /] Jerry Heep has been a RadioShack Staff Engineer for more than 30 years. In that time, he’s designed and built a host of products that can be found on the shelves of every RadioShack. But, electrical engineering is always a work in progress and for every project that was produced [...] Read more
Dorkbot & ATX Hackerspace at SXSW Create: RadioShack Recap
On our last day of SXSW, Ricky and I were able to check out the Dorkbot & ATX Hackerspace event at SXSW Create. This event was filled with creative projects, great presentations and several projects that were designed using RadioShack parts. There was no place better to go in Austin to join a great group [...] Read more
Q&A With Massimo Banzi: Cofounder of Arduino
Massimo Banzi dropped into RadioShack headquarters last week, and we couldn’t help but squeal like starstruck girls at a Bieber concert. This is the man responsible for Arduino, the open-source programmable microcontroller that essentially breathes life into electronics projects. It has allowed those with no prior engineering or programming experience to build amazing gadgets, like [...] Read more