Book description
Start-to-finish, fun projects for makers of all types, ages, and skill levels!
This easy-to-follow guide features dozens of DIY, low-cost projects that will arm you with the skills necessary to dream up and build your own creations. The Big Book of Makerspace Projects: Inspiring Makers to Experiment, Create, and Learn offers practical tips for beginners and open-ended challenges for advanced makers. Each project features non-technical, step-by-step instructions with photos and illustrations to ensure success and expand your imagination. You will learn recyclables hacks, smartphone tweaks, paper circuits, e-textiles, musical instruments, coding and programming, 3-D printing, and much, much more!
Discover how to create:
• Brushbot warriors, scribble machines, and balloon hovercrafts
• Smartphone illusions, holograms, and projections
• Paper circuits, origami, greeting cards, and pop-ups
• Dodgeball, mazes, and other interesting Scratch games
• Organs, guitars, and percussion instruments
• Sewed LED bracelets, art cuffs, and Arduino stuffie
• Makey Makey and littleBits gadgets
• Programs for plug-and-play and Bluetooth-enabled robots
• 3D design and printing projects and enhancements
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 An Introduction to Making and Tinkering
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2 Starting Small and Low Cost
- Project 1: Brush Bot Warriors
- Project 2: Cardboard Arena
- Obstacles and Traps
- Project 3: DIY Paper Clip and Brad Switches
- Reusing an Existing Switch
- Projects 4 and 5: Scribble Machines
- Project 4: Scribble Bots
- Project 5: Perfect Circle Machine with littleBits
- Projects 6–8: Balloons and Straws
- Project 6: Balloon Monorail
- Project 7: Balloon Hovercraft
- Project 8: Balloon Boats and Cars
- “Make Something That Moves” Challenge
- 3 Smart Phone Projects
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4 Paper Circuits
- Project 12: LED Origami
- Projects 13–16: Paper Circuit Greeting Cards
- Project 13: Simple Circuit Card
- Project 14: Flip the Switch Card
- Project 15: Parallel Circuit Card
- Project 16: Disco Branched Circuit Card
- Projects 17 and 18: Pop-Up Paper Circuitry Tricks
- Project 17: Pull-Tab Switch
- Project 18: Tiered Pull-Tab Trick
- “Pop-Up Paper Circuitry Book” Challenge
- 5 Coding
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6 Musical Instruments
- Project 22: Popsicle Stick Kazoo
- Project 23: DIY Phonograph
- PVC Instrument Safety Tips
- Project 24: PVC Playground Pipe Organ
- Shakers and Rainsticks
- Project 25: Rainsticks
- Project 26: One-String Guitar
- Project 27: Adding a Piezo Pickup and an Audio Jack to an Existing Project
- “DIY Musical Instrument” Challenge
- 7 Sewing Circuits: Beginner to Advanced E-Textiles
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8 Makey Makey
- Projects 31–33: Building Swing Switches, Fold Switches, and Pressure Sensors
- Project 31: Building a Swing Switch
- Project 32: Building a Fold Switch
- Project 33: Building a Pressure-Sensor Switch
- Project 34: Makey Makey Paper Circuit
- Project 35: Marble Wall Switches
- “Makey Makey Assistive Technology” Challenge
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9 Coding and Programming Objects
- Project 36: Programming Dash and Dot with Tickle App
- Equilateral Triangle with Dash/Dot
- Right Triangle with Dash and Dot
- Obtuse Triangle with Dash
- Project 37: Programming Triangles with Sphero and Tickle
- Right Triangle with Sphero
- Project 38: Programming Triangles with Sphero and SPRK Lightning Lab
- Project 39: Programming a Robot Dance Party With Tickle
- Project 40: Programming with Hummingbird Robotics and Snap!
- “App-Smashing Programming” Challenge
- 10 littleBits
- 11 3D Printing
- 12 Mixing It All Together
- Appendix
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Big Book of Makerspace Projects: Inspiring Makers to Experiment, Create, and Learn
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2016
- Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Education TAB
- ISBN: 9781259644269
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