How to equip a makerspace without blowing your budget, while offering flexibility to meet a range of needs? A behind-the-scenes look at how the Potato Productions Makerspace was outfitted for its soft launch on 8th November 2025, told from the perspective of the land The Beacon community space lies on.
The new Potato Productions Makerspace at Beacon Community Space in Taman Jurong is the fruit of a collaboration between Tasek Academy and Social Services, Bernina International and Potato Productions.
Your phone's WhatsApp is sending messages on its own, and you’ve been logged out of your email. What do you do when your phone gets hacked?
The app that changed how biodiversity is observed and logged and put citizen science in the hands of citizens turns 18 this March 20th, woot!
How using your phone to listen to birds can monitor ecosystem health and be addictively fun.
SpudnikLab’s editor Melissa De Silva falls in love with spiders, through passionate guide, citizen scientist and entomologist Finn Tan
In July 2025, SpudnikLab brought their Science Kit prototype to SMP Negeri 3, a middle school in Denpasar, Bali. What unfolded was a glimpse into how accessible, low-cost scientific tools can transform not just what students learn, but how they see the world around them.
Scientific literacy enhances agricultural systems in rhythm with nature for these Balinese orange and coffee farmers in Kintamani, through the low-cost tools of a soil sensor and inexpensive microscope in SpudnikLab's Science Kit prototype.
How a marine conservation internship in Bali with Sea Communities taught a university student from Singapore about night diving, using a clipboard underwater and citizen science data-gathering for coral reef restoration.
A bare hill slope transformed into a buzzing ecosystem of over 600 species of plants and animals, starting with one person's vision and dedication.
SpudnikLab's new D.Lit Low Vision Toolkit equips those with vision difficulties navigate smartphones with greater ease.
In this third post in SpudnikLab’s series on the reasons underlying the digital divide (the...
What does the digital divide around the world look like? In the second post in this series on the barriers to internet access, SpudnikLab explores digitally marginalised groups caught in the deep-rooted rivalry between two economic giants.
April is Citizen Science Month! We wax lyrical about why these 30 days dedicated to works of science by ordinary folk around the world rock our world.
How do countries around the world stack up when it comes to internet access? SpudnikLab looks at Australia and India in the first post in this series on obstacles to the digital divide.
How do the visually impaired perceive and navigate the digital world? SpudnikLab’s sister company 55 Minutes shares recommendations for stellar UX design to cater to people with visual impairments.
Help seniors navigate technology more comfortably, with these UX design recommendations by SpudnikLab’s sister company, user design experience studio 55 Minutes.
As Meta removes Whatsapp support for KaiOS feature phones, where does that leave users of these affordable mobile devices?
With unprecedented access to the internet and devices, parents today have to deal with a problem their parents and grandparents never grappled with—kids’ smartphone addiction. How does the old-fashioned keypad phone stack up as a potential solution?
As plastic pollution threatens to overwhelm our beaches, oceans and marine life, frugal innovation and citizen science can help track and combat this global problem.
As AI becomes an ever more lethal weapon for criminals and scammers, SpudnikLab looks at how we can protect ourselves.
How much data can you buy for the equivalent cost of a typical meal in these ten Asian countries? SpudnikLab investigates.
The rise of AI makes us question what it means to be human.
When it comes to AI, it can be difficult to know what's fact and what's (science) fiction. SpudnikLab looks into what's artificial intelligence myth and reality.
A SIM card lock is a security measure that prevents your phone from using your...
In the last of our 4-part series, SpudnikLab speaks to computing and coding instructor and...
Why are so few women in tech? In the third of this 4-part series, SpudnikLab...
In the second of this 4-part series, SpudnikLab has a conversation with content creator and software engineer Ainul Md Razib about the gender gap in the tech industry, her experience being female in the tech field, and what can be done to get more women into tech.
Why are there so few women in tech? In this 4-part series, SpudnikLab looks at some data and speaks to 3 women in the tech industry.
Have you been asked how to use Google Maps offline, troubleshoot a new WiFi connection...
SpudnikLab's new product, D.Lit, makes learning digital skills fun and easy for older users. And it's great with snacks!
An infuriating error on the popular messaging app solved.
With over a thousand apps on the Kaistore and limited storage space on the KaiOS device, it’s a good prudent when choosing apps to download! Here are 5 fun games, suitable for all ages, which only require low storage.
Here’s a list of charity campaigns you can support in Singapore, to help people improve their digital access and know-how.
Retro cool KaiOS phones run only one app at a time, which means freedom from endless notifications and multitasking, for one. So gift them to loved ones or yourself this festive season!
Think you know your emojis? Check out emojis you've never seen before on KaiOS smart feature phones!
What did Lego have to do with the creation of Google servers? The first online community may have been from before your mother was born, and more!
Could you swap your smartphone for an old skool keypad phone for a weekend? Jamie did and was in for a surprise!
What's Kobi? A little web app that helps new internet users get the most out of apps on their KaiOS feature phones.
Retro cool KaiOS smart feature phones have their own app store with apps for everything from financial literacy to healthcare information, and of course games!
Android and iOS aren’t the only mobile operating systems out there. There's also KaiOS, launched in 2017, based on open source technologies free for public use, making it possible to bring the internet to more people around the world.
Remember Nokia and Sony Ericsson? Retro keypad phones are back, now called smart feature phones and updated wifi and bluetooth capabilities, selfie cameras, GPS and the glorious universe of apps.
Becoming a social media star has helped those from underprivileged backgrounds gain new freedom.
A thriving online classroom requires a new skill set for teachers, many of whom are digitally illiterate and face digital anxiety. The first step of a solution is the willingness to change.
Photo credit: Nandha Kumar on Unsplash How a Free App is Lowering Farmer Suicide Rates...
In pandemic times, the ideal of online learning through technological capability remains, for some, just an ideal.
How some groups are working to close the gap between the digital haves and have-nots, in the city-state purported to be the technology capital of Asia, one laptop at a time.