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Wow!!! The Edison Kickstarter project has almost reached the $100,000 stretch goal, but with less than 35 hours left (at time of recording video) it's going to be close! At $100,000 we will produce a FREE iPad and Android version of EdWare, so Edison... (Read More)

An Adelaide company behind a low-cost robot called Edison has raised $83,256 from 928 backers, smashing its $20,000 target with five days to spare. (Read More)

Hi everyone,   Edison is powering along and getting closer to the $100,000 stretch goal, however if we make it there it will be very close! So for some additional encouragement there is a new $100,000 stretch goal bonus.   I recorded this video to... (Read More)

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The Edison team has been very busy across the last few days preparing Edison prototypes and having them ready for the Science Alive! event in Adelaide this weekend. On the first day of the event we were visited by the South Australian Minster for... (Read More)

Electronics and playing LEGO have always been passions of mine. As a child I had a monster collection of LEGO and drooled over my ‘Dick Smith Electronics’ catalogue filled electronics parts and kits (Australian version of Radio Shack/Tandy). As I enter my 40th year, I am finally bringing these two passions together with Edison. (Read More)

Lego is, first and foremost, fun. Building with those small plastic blocks also teaches some fundamentals of engineering: how to build a structure that won’t topple over—that is, one stable enough to survive getting trampled by the family dog. A new robotic toy on Kickstarter can also make playing with Lego a lesson in computer programming. So you can hedge your bets by steering your kid toward two lucrative careers at once, under the guise of unstructured playtime. (Read More)

Hi there again,  Wow – only Day 5 and we’ve already reached are funding target of $20,000.  A big THANK YOU to everyone who has backed Edison so far. With the funding goal achieved we are now offering a stretch goal. If Edison is able to... (Read More)

A very cool Kickstarter project was brought to my attention this morning, the Edison. It’s a very small and light robot that has a surprisingly high number of features up its sleeve. A few of them should be immediately obvious to most: the LEGO compatible pin holes and knobs. The bottom of the robot has a few strips of LEGO plate-like receptacles, so you connect bricks to that side, too (or stack multiple Edisons). (Read More)

Those of you that would like to learn more about programming robots, might be interested in the Edison programmable robot which can be programmed using a free open source graphical programming software. (Read More)

With robots set to play a more prominent role in society in the coming years, it makes sense to find fun ways to educate youngsters on the technology. To that end, Thomas Alva has developed Edison, a palm-sized, bright orange, programmable robot compatible with Lego bricks that is intended as an affordable introduction to programming and robotics. (Read More)

Microbric has launched a Kickstarter campaign for its latest STEM targeted offering, Edison, (www.meetedison.com) in a bid to address the shortage of affordable technology resources in mainstream education. Edison – or the little orange robot – encompasses the functionality of other robotic products already available, but at a much lower price, opening the door to wide spread adoption by all schools. (Read More)