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13YR OLD TEACHES MIT GRADUATES (IN HIS SPARE TIME)

Most kids aged 13 definitely want to keep up with the latest technology and want what their friends have, but this teenager has gone above and beyond, Quin Etnyre from California has taught himself to programme electronics.

He has been working for the past 3 years on creating his own company that helps young people interested in electronic programming get started, using his own starter packs. He also teaches MIT graduates in his spare time, to people who are twice his age... it's a wonder how he even has time to fit all this in. We still can't believe that he's only 13, The IITS team demand some ID.

In the mean time we'll give him the benefit of the doubt, check out the video below to find out more:

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Words - Mariam Musa - @mariamrmusa

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Introducing the FuzzBot

Twelve-year-old maker Quin already has a company of his own–Qtechknow. He founded a hackerspace in his garage on California’s Central Coast. He helps teach Arduino classes for kids and adults. And he developed the “gas cap,” a baseball hat that detects human methane emissions. (What 12-year-old wouldn’t want that?) And now he’s created the FuzzBot, a cool little robot that not only turns on a dime to avoid obstacles, it helps his mom out by dragging a dust cloth as it makes its rounds.

To build the bot, Quin used the Pololu ZumoBot Chassis Kit for Arduino, an Arduino Leonardo, a pan/tilt small servo, and a Parallax Ping Ultrasonic Distance Sensor. He used wire to attach the servo to the chassis and hot glue to secure the Ping sensor to the top of the servo. He programmed most of the code himself using the Arduino IDE, the ZumoBot library, and the Ping library for Arduino.

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