Many of the festival's activities, like a large-scale demonstration of Mentos candy reacting with Coke Zero, air rockets and toy guns constructed out of PVC pipe, seemed designed to pique the interests of children, and were accompanied by family-friendly kits for everything from cardboard robots to quadcopters to soldering tools.
In the years following, so many user-friendly kits started coming out". What makes these kits foolproof?
My company, Idealab, has been working on this very problem with WorldHaus, a $2,500 eco-friendly kit home for the aspiring middle class.
In Australia these tools were packaged together in 1993 into a user-friendly kit for FPs, known as 'Drink-less' by Gomel, Saunders et al [ 20].
In contrast, LSI, VLSI, and the other industry upstarts understood that they needed to do just the opposite by putting robust, user-friendly tool kits into customers' hands.
I believe that Edge of Space has the capacity to fill this void, creating budget-friendly science kits that conform to educational standards while exploring fascinating, cutting-edge frontiers of science.
Several companies have reinvented the R&D process: They equip customers with high-tech but user-friendly tool kits featuring computer simulation and rapid prototyping to develop their own new products.
There's nothing to make me want to chuck my compact fluorescent light bulbs and leave my car idling in the school pickup line more than a room of billionaires' wives patting themselves on their designer backs for buying $140 eco-friendly cleaning kits for the household staff.
Adafruit's user-friendly starter kits are designed to allow beginners to make projects that could easily be dismissed as mere kitsch or novelty items: goggles whose rims flash rainbow lights, or a remote control that will shut off any TV within three hundred feet.
And it even landed its crash-friendly drone kits in a tech-minded store called b8ta in Palo Alto.
