We’re pleased to announce the award of a two-year $486,906 grant from the US National Science Foundation’s Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR Phase II) program. 

Maker Faire is May 30 and 31 at the San Mateo County Expo Center. If you’re going to be there, come say hi! We’re keeping a

Our roBlocks prototype (above) uses seven tiny magnets on each face of each cube. On each connector, there are protruding keys (with silver cylinder magnets)

Last weekend I got to play with an amazing group of people at a two-day workshop in Boston. It was called Programming Reality: From Transitive Materials

It turns out I really had no idea how things are made! We just spent a week in Shenzhen and Guanzhou, two manufacturing cities close

I’m helping organize the Creativity & Cognition conference.  It’s an interesting mix of artists, computer scientists, and just plain creative people.   Which leads to the question: How

I’m at the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC for the annual Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation meeting.  Mark Yim gave the talk for

I’m flying to London tomorrow for TEI 2009, an academic conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction.  It’s in Cambridge, and I’m super-excited.  We demo’d roBlocks

We’re changing our name!  roBlocks was a good name for our kit when it was just a research project, but it’s too similar to ROBLOX,

Great news today.  We’re happy to announce that roBlocks (Cubelets development name) received a $100,000 “Phase I” Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Science Foundation.