Mini Cube (ATOM Matrix)
The Cube that we know and love actually has a younger brother – the mini Cube! In the world of products and electronics, bigger is…
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Smart Cards (RFID and NFC)
One of the very cool technologies that the Cube makes it easy to play with is Radio Frequency Identification or RFID for short, and its…
Motion sensing – Passive Infrared (PIR) sensor Unit
The Passive Infrared sensor unit is not included in the standard kit, but is part of our expanded kit distributed at our project days. Passive…
Robots that can dance: part II
Hyundai has acquired Boston Dynamics, so here’s a new promo video featuring more awesome dancing robots. I find the fluidity of the motion so impressive…
World’s first 3D printed steel bridge installed in Amsterdam
Printed over six months using Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAC), four robots welded 1,100 kilometres of stainless steel wire layer by later into a 4.5…
Fast Food of the Future
Taco Bell is re-imagining their fast food outlets in response to customer demand shifting from sit-down dining to collect & drive-through orders. As reported by…
The king of all rockets? The SpaceX super heavy booster
Not sure this qualifies as 4IR, but its just so cool I can’t help but post it here 😁. The vision. The scale. The pace…
Further learning and career options
Hopefully ‘the bug has bitten’ and a technology-related career is looking appealing to you after the Applied Technology and Design Thinking courses! To aid you…
Completion of Applied Technology course 2021-08-10
Congrats to all the Gauteng learners in the Telkom Foundation programme that completed the Applied Technology course yesterday! I hope that you have uncovered a…
6 autonomous delivery robots being trialed
Having driven some of our roads, and also having witnessed the recent scenes of large-scale looting and destruction, something tells me it might be a…