Spring Break Fun at the Tech Interactive in San Jose

Justin R. Lester takes his family to The Tech Interactive in San Jose, where they build wind-powered devices, construct robots from deconstructed toys, and try augmented reality body projection. They also stop by Google Headquarters in Sunnyvale.
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Hey, everybody, it's Crown Dad. And we are in San Jose at the Tech Interaction. What are you looking forward to, Cam? I'm looking forward to getting wet. Getting wet. You're looking forward to the dinosaur show. So we're gonna have fun. So follow along with us. Be sure to like and subscribe on our journey. All right? Come on. Well, you guys already know. Be sure to click that like and subscribe button. We're here at the Tech Museum. Escalator. How about you? Amazing space. Fun for the entire family. We entered and started on the bottom floor where they had a super cool create space. The goal was to create a device that would be able to be wind powered. And so Camden took some different things they had around and put together a device together. We took little things from knobs to wheels. All of that, put it together, and here's the. No. Then we went and saw some robotics. We had a chance to see some deconstructed toys, like a deconstructed furby. And then, well, the dance. Using AR augmented reality, they had a chance to use project our bodies. They went here to see energy consumption and generation in a fake community. It was super cool because it was completely interactive projection. And Camden was able to turn and increase energy and decrease energy in the city. The same thing here. We were playing with the city, San Jose, on the. On the table. And it was super amazing to see highrises and buildings. And this was the earth and all the energy that we received from the sun. Camden was on the moon. And here he was able to use a robot to go around and project a laser into the ceiling. He did an amazing job going in. You wait for a short line. Go in there. And then lastly, we built a robot. Do you see what Cam did? Robot is simply one program to like another program. What to do. Just like a simple vacuum. And Camden was able to put together an entire robot that turned lights on and moved around. Super cool, super fun. And they gave you instructions the entire time. What are you doing, Cam? I make my roller coaster. All right, click finish. Click finish. Brown mom, what are you building? I'm building a giraffe. What are you building, Kim? I'm building a. This was very fun. You're able to project animals onto a screen. You'll see in a second how the brown mom does this. Welcome, Brown Mom. Good job. Look in the screen. Oh, cool. Lastly, we got a chance to see how cells regenerate on animals and how it creates stripes and skin, skin particles and skin follicles. It was super great. And a really, really amazing experience. Recommended for the entire family. In the end, we had a chance also to see an IMAX movie that had an IMAX built in. And then of course, we couldn't go to San Jose without taking time to go to Google. So we went over to Sunnyvale to go to go the Google Headquarters had a chance to see some amazing things Google Headquarters and take a tour of the space. So it was a great time. Be sure to like and subscribe and follow for more adventures.
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