K’NEX’s new TechnoK’NEX Computer Control System was on display at this week’s National Education Computing Conference (NECC) in Chicago. The Mac compatible system lets teachers and students in grades ...

K’NEX, the colorful plastic construction toy known for roller coasters and towers, has taken on a new identity. It has become the frame of a fully functioning 8-bit mechanical computer. Built by an ...

K’NEX Education is featuring its TechnoK-NEX Computer Control System at this week’s 22nd annual National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in San Antonio, TX. The system is curriculum supported ...

The Youtuber Shadowman39 has built a functional, mechanical 8-bit computer with the construction toy for roller coasters and towers K'nex. The machine can process binary numbers between 0 and 255 or ...

A man has gone viral after building a fully functional 8-bit computer out of K’Nex. In a video that has now amassed over 112,000 views, Kyle, known online as Shadowman39, debuted the Arithmetic and ...

The best thing that I can remember making with K’NEX was a ferris wheel, and I followed a set of directions. However, a couple of engineering-crazed kids from Olin College have devised a gigantic ...

What would happen if you never quite outgrew that construction toy that first fascinated you as a kid? The answer to that can be found in Austin Granger’s bedroom. Like many 21-year-old college ...

The St. Paul Pioneer Press last talked to Austin Granger in 2012 when the University of Minnesota undergraduate was becoming a YouTube sensation. He had filled his St. Paul bedroom with a massive ...

We last talked to Austin Granger in 2012 when the University of Minnesota undergraduate was becoming a YouTube sensation. He had filled his St. Paul bedroom with a massive 40,000-piece Rube ...