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This hands-on sourcebook edited by technology expert Kroski includes everything libraries need to know about the major topics, tools, and technologies relevant to makerspaces today.
When exciting new technologies combine with hands-on traditions, your classroom becomes a makerspace where learning soars.
Build the essential creativity, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking! Go beyond theory and learn how to systematically integrate STEAM and Maker spaces that prepare students for real-world experiences. This engaging resource outlines step-by-step processes to help anyone start their STEAM and Maker journey.
Ready to take the plunge into the next Industrial Revolution? This guide provides a clear and inspiring roadmap.
This book is an essential guide for educators interested in bringing the amazing world of 3D printing to their classrooms. Learn about the technology, exciting powerful new design software, and even advice for purchasing your first 3D printer.
3D Printing is changing the way we think about design, distribution, and manufacturing. By bringing the factory to the desktop, this technology opens the door to a multitude of new opportunities, and challenges paradigms from the drawing board to the boardroom.
This DIY book uses cutting-edge (and affordable) technology in appealing projects for fathers and daughters to do together. These crafts and gadgets are both rewarding to make and delightful to play with.
Spark your creativity and gain the electronics skills required to transform your innovative ideas into functioning gadgets. This hands-on, updated guide outlines electrical principles and provides thorough, easy-to-follow instructions, schematics, and illustrations
Go from switching circuits to integrated circuits, and from simple alarms to programmable microcontrollers. With step-by-step instructions and more than 500 full-color photographs and illustrations, this book will help you use and understand electronics concepts and techniques
This book was written for educators who want to incorporate drones into their curriculum but have no idea where to start. It will cover all that you need to need to know to get off of the ground with a drone program in your school. It covers such basic but important information as which drones need to be registered and where you can fly them.
This fun guide shows, step-by-step, how to construct powerful drones from inexpensive parts, add personalized features, and become a full-fledged pilot.
Arduino is the open source electronics prototyping platform that has taken the Maker Movement by storm. This thorough introduction helps you start prototyping right away. From obtaining the required components to putting the final touches on your project, all the information you need is here!
Learn to create inventive programs and fun games on your powerful Raspberry Pi--with no programming experience required.
Gets you started working with the most popular processing platforms and wireless communication technologies to connect devices and systems to the Internet using sensors. You'll learn the basics of object-oriented programming and relational databases so you can complete your projects with ease.
Explains how to write sketches using Arduino's modified C language, covering such topics as structuring data with arrays and strings, programming LCD displays, writing functions in sketches, and working with the Standard Arduino Library.
An introduction to the colorful drag-and-drop programming language shares numerous projects that use engaging video games, from Maze Runner to Breakout, to introduce programming fundamentals and basic coding.
Introduces the basics of the Python programming language, covering how to use data structures, organize and reuse code, draw shapes and patterns with turtle, and create games and animations with tkinter.
Teaches you how to program in the Python. Each chapter gives you the complete source code for a new game, and then teaches the programming concepts from the example.
Offers step-by-step directions for crafting over one hundred projects using duct tape, including cushions, pillows, bags, wallets, toys, costumes, and seasonal items.
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