#steam box

Meanwhile in my day to day life:

A thousand bucks

A thousand big ones

A thousand smackeroos

I'm fucking pissed x3

Buy a Steam Deck (which since they upped the price by a third, the answer is a resounding NO)

Buy a Mini PC and either install SteamOS or run Steam Remote Play through Windows

Buy a Chromecast dongle and use that to run the Steam Link App

Does anyone else out there stream from Steam to their TV? What do you do? What would you recommend? I don't want to spend more than $500 to do this, but it's something @sylaurin and I will will use a lot, so it's worth some investment.

The research report on Global Steam Box Market presents an in-depth evaluation of the Steam Box industry. With attention to Steam Box key trends, it focuses regulative landscape, drivers, and challenges. It explicitly defines Steam Box opportunities, standardization with latest technologies. The Steam Box report serves forecast from 2018 to 2023 to clarify the future roadmap. The deployment…

Our first activity to ship was the Floral Portrait art activity to celebrate the Year of the Rooster, and we were totally thrilled to see the first pictures of the classes getting uploaded to social media.

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Our STEAM Box activities were designed by teachers, for teachers, so they’re super inspiring, and also super easy for schools to use.  STEAM Boxes are individual boxes prepared for each student and contain all the materials needed to create their project. They’re totally ‘turn-key’ so teachers can focus on the important work of creating an environment that fosters learning rather than designing activities and procuring materials.

We provide training materials for the teachers that include step by step instructions, samples of the finished products, and even onsite training if needed (Shanghai, Jiangsu & Zhejiang).

STEAM Boxes lead students through familiar, but cool, crafts similar to what they would have experienced in an other classes – However, there’s always a twist….

As the activities progress, the projects that they’ve created along the way get combined in creative an unexpected ways.  The activities are specifically designed to let the students discover, on their own, that the marriage of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with Art creates magical results.

This opens students’ minds to a different way of thinking and better rounds out their education… it teaches them not just the technical aspects of STEM, but also the eloquent application of STEM principals through Art.

Choose from the dozens of activity boxes that we’ve already designed, or we’d also be happy to design a brand new custom activity just for your school.  There’s a STEAM Box for every occasion or budget, from Holiday themes that are heavy on Art to in-depth Science with REAL fossils included or Engineering inspired by Leonardo da Vinci.

We don’t want to prepare children to face a cruel and unforgiving world, we want to give them the weapons that they’ll need to make the world a little less cruel and a little more forgiving!

Just like all of our kid-safe products, our STEAM Boxes are available within mainland China, or can also be exported worldwide.

If you’d like to explore the possibility of adding STEAM Boxes to your school’s curriculum or after-school program, our passion is contagious, so please don’t hesitate to Contact Us.

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The Shadowbox STEAM Box is designed specifically to lead children down a path of self-discovery, where through various small steps, they discover (on their own) that the marriage between STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) and Art creates beautiful and amazing offspring.

Like all of our STEAM boxes, this activity begins with students each receiving individual boxes containing all the materials needed to create their masterpiece.

The Lighted Shadowbox activity leads the students through familiar, but cool, crafts similar to what they would have experienced before in an Art Class – However, there’s a twist….

As the activity progresses, the crafts that they have created, get mounted into a shadowbox, and LED periphery lighting gets added.  This activity is specifically designed to let the students discover, on their own, that by combining the Art which they’ve been exposed to for years, with the STEM tools that they are so fond of, can create magical results.

This opens students’ minds to a different way of thinking and better rounds out their education…

We don’t want to prepare children to face a cruel and unforgiving world, we want to give them the weapons they will need to make the world a little less cruel and a little more forgiving!

If you’d like to explore the possibility of adding STEAM Boxes to your school’s curriculum or after-school program, our passion is contagious, so please don’t hesitate to Contact Us.

Reinforcements to the battlefield!

Apparently, the Android operating system and consoles that run on such system are in fashion at the beginning of this year 2013. After the announcement of future consoles from the previous post, two more arise: Project SHIELD, by NVIDIA, and SteamBox, byValve. (more…)

In a series of tests conducted by Ars Technica, it was found that games suffer major framerate hits on Steam OS compared to the same hardware set up and settings on Windows 10. While current PC heavy-weights like Fallout 4 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 still don’t have Linux ports capable of being run on Steam OS, Ars Technica settled for “a couple of mid-to-late-2014 releases that had SteamOS ports suitable for our tests: Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor and Metro: Last Light Redux. Both are relatively graphically intensive 3D games with built-in benchmarking tools… For all the gaming benchmarks, we ran each test at least three times and took the median number to ensure the results were reliable.”

As can be seen in the graphs below, Steam OS did not fare well, the tests seeing anywhere from 21- to 58-percent fewer frames per second, [on Steam OS] depending on the graphical settings.”

Ars Technica freely admitted, “While these are two AAA games ported to Linux by respected publishers, it’s possible the developers simply weren’t able to extract the best performance from the less familiar OpenGL and Linux environment.” As such, the tests continued to include Valve’s own games. Sadly, they too, while not to as high of a degree, also suffered on Steam OS.

Along with the Steam Boxes, Valve also recently released a number of other products. Be sure to check out our reviews for Steam Link and the Steam Controller. Have you picked up a Steam Box? Are you going to? Let us know in the comments.