Connect(); 2016 - Stories LittleBits

I was always a maker and a tinkerer when
I was at the Media Lab I started
exploring this idea of how to put the
power of engineers in the hands of
artists and designers a few years ago I
started developing little bit little
bits are electronic modules with each
one specific function light sound motors
and sensors cabuk is a very tiny little
linux computer and the cloud platform
itself leverages a variety of tools our
open source developer API is available
for anybody to use and you can write
your apps on any platform and we've seen
really great projects from developers
working on Microsoft Azure our
schematics and board layouts are all
open source we have a public github repo
that you can go in and see all our
designs this is really great especially
for educators who want to expose their
students to what's going on underneath
the hood we held a steam summer camp at
the microsoft flagship store is a great
way for kids to come and learn about
little bits and be inspired by the
things that you could do with science
technology engineering art and math the
lewis community started out with people
posting their inventions online and now
have 315 worldwide community chapters
and 60 school chapters people have
posted three thousand inventions for our
website and even people sending in new
bit ideas we're all about fun and being
creative and kind of hidden behind that
is fact that you're actually learning we
want to encourage a world of creators of
inventors of contributors because this
world that we live in this interactive
world is ours so go ahead and start
inventing
you