GM16 - Bertsch

Last summer during a Solarbotics Robotics for Educators session, one of the teachers noted something about many of the mainstream robotics and electronics learning platforms commonly used in classrooms. He said that those platforms suffered from the Black Box Effect. This effect was where the “black boxes,” the controllers, were plugged into the computer and […]

Hello!  Today I actually have stuff to say, and this time these are the news on the Useless Box. Looks like it's time to receive thanks! Remember back in November 2012 when we decided to donate $1100 to Plan Canada from a percentage of past sales of Useless Boxes? They sent us a nice thank […]

Sorry, our office is closed Monday, October 11 for Canadian Thanksgiving. Being further north, we have to eat our turkeys sooner. If we don't do it now and celebrate it with our American cousins next month, the turkeys freeze to the tundra, and we have to suck on Turkeysicles. Ick. We'll be back to work […]

Some quick heads-up: Apparently the road to recovery in New York is still fairly rough, and as a result our datacenter company is facing some intermittent outages. We appreciate your patience while our site fights off the hiccups. Random piece of information: did you know the collective nouns for a group of weasels include boogle, […]