Weekly Staff Picks, April 29, 2012

Here are our Staff picks for this week.   We’ve got Robots, Clothing mods, an Arcade, Etsy and Software links today. We hope you enjoy them!

How to Train your Robot   Teaching kids between 5 and 7 to program by using parents as the CPUs to carry out a set of instructions prepared by the children.   The author describes how he observed the children naturally discovering principles such as parametrization, abstraction, composition and unit testing. - Alex

Refashionista   Fun clothing hacks.   I’ve got a ton of old clothes just waiting to be made into new ones! - Christine

Regretsy outs an Etsy re-seller who imports furniture from Bali. - Stephanie

Caine’s Arcade   Very maker-spiritual cardboard arcade built by a 9-year-old boy. - WanTing

The Zooming Presentation Editor   PPTs are booooring. Check out this new way to present using typography and motion. - Ross