Into the Driver's Seat

I am beyond elated – our PreK-6 elementary school received monies, through our district’s Computer Science Resolution 2025, to create a STEAM (science, technology, arts, math) makerspace. I never thought our Title 1 school would get the opportunity to create such a space. I never thought I would get the opportunity to help create a fully equipped makerspace. A few of use spent the past few weeks rearranging our library so that one side contains our books and the other our STEAM materials.

Via John Evans, Jim Lerman

6 years after creating our first makerspace, it only makes sense to publish a post that focuses on 6 steps for creating a makerspace.

Via John Evans, Jim Lerman

Three years ago I shared my Makerspace Starter Kit with you or what I was buying to boost our Makerspace area using four empty Library study carrels that no longer held desktop Macs.  That post has been consistently one of the most viewed posts every week for years and years and with more than 83 THOUSAND views I thought maybe it was time to update it. * 

Since then, I've had some Makerspace successes and a couple dismal (and expensive) Makerspace failures!  So, it's time I updated this post for ya'll giving you the good, the bad, and the bloody awful!

Via John Evans

BBC Micro:Bit board was first announced in July 2015. Designed for STEM education, the board was then offered to UK schools in March 2016, and a few months later UK store would start selling it worldwide. It’s now available pretty much anywhere, and you can likely find it in a local store or online.

The Thai government must have seen this, and thought to themselves “If the British can do it, we can do it too!”, as the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) part of Thailand’s Ministry of Science and Technology designed KidBright32 board and courses to teach STEM to Thai students.

 

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https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Coding

 

Via Gust MEES

Recently I bought myself the latest model of 3D-printers from Formlabs, the Form2.

The Form 2 delivers high-resolution prints in  Industrial 3D printing quality and it is very, very expensive. (I had been waiting (and saving money) for 3 years until I made the financial plunge to get such a machine)

But it has the huge advantage that dosen’t require a lot of tweaking and experimenting to run, you just take it out of the box, you install it and it runs !! It comes with the right software, the materials you need to use are in sich a packaging (1 Liter resin cartridges !) that you can concentrate on the objet you’re printing and not on the maintenance of the machine. The system recognises the resin type, configures settings, and allows you to keep track of resin supplies.

The Form 2 is a SLA printer where SLA stand for Stereolithography. SLA is an additive manufacturing – commonly referred to as 3D printing – technology that converts liquid materials into solid parts, layer by layer, by selectively curing them using a light source in a process called photopolymerization. SLA is widely used to create models, prototypes, patterns, and production parts for a range of industries from engineering and product design to manufacturing, dentistry, jewelry, model making, and education.

 

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https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=3D-Printing

 

Via Gust MEES

BEAUTIFUL AND CLEVER

The Monarch flashes its LEDs when its antennae touch. But it's also clever! It uses a clock source and shift register in a particular configuration in order to generate its patterns. Through it, one can learn about the basics of digital design, clocking, and randomness.

It is a third in a series of electronic 'bugs', the first is The Lady and the second is The Gent.

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIKmmhdMFSE&feature=youtu.be

 

https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=electronics

 

Via Gust MEES, Mika Auramo

For the first time in four years, I am without a makerspace.  My new school’s library is beautiful and huge and has a school culture that is just ripe for making.  Even though it was tempting, I decided not to change it up and create a makerspace over the summer.  I want to be sure that the library program, including a new makerspace, is responsive to the needs of the school and its culture.  Therefore, I plan on spending at least the first-semester making plans for how this space will work.  It will likely be very different from my previous space, but I’m excited to see what forms.

Making plans for a new makerspace can be daunting, so I’ve gathered together some tips to help get started:

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When considering where to start with our new after school Makerspace Club it was onlyfitting to begin with an idea which epitomizes the ideologies of the Maker Movement…. the wonderful story of a young boy Caine who created arcade games from cardboard.

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Streaming. Gaming. Networking. Even printing! These projects prove the Raspberry Pi is far more than a toy. Here are 10 surprisingly useful projects anybody can do.

 

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http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Raspberry+Pi

 

Via Gust MEES

Temperature & Humidity monitor using Arduino NANO + DHT22 + 0.96 inch 128X64 I2C OLED WE were playing around a lot already with I2C-LCD displays <===> https://gustmees.wordpress.com/?s=i2c+lcd <===> but not yet with I2C-OLEDs. In this tutorial WE will create a <===> Temperature & Humidity monitor using Arduino NANO + DHT22 + 0.96 inch 128X64…

 

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https://www.scoop.it/topic/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=OLED

 

https://www.scoop.it/topic/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Gust-MEES

 

Via Gust MEES, NextLearning

You don't have to spend thousands of dollars to start a Makerspace area. You don't have to have a designated room or rip out bookcases. You can even have a Makerspace on a cart! When we have testing in our Library, I put all our Makerspace stuff on an AV cart and roll it into our server room.  This post evolved from a previous post called Makerspace Starter Kit Updated where I had some of these idea, but I felt that it deserved it's own expanded post.

You can take baby steps into the Maker Movement.  I've been saying that for 7 years or so....long before I blogged about it, I tried it out. Yeah, sometimes I try things on the sly to see if they are blogworthy for you! Now....having said that ..."

Via John Evans

Learn to design, create, and program electronics
11,116 open-source project tutorials shared by 408,637 developers

 

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https://gustmees.wordpress.com/?s=maker

 

https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=makerspace

 

Via Gust MEES, Yashy Tohsaku, Jim Lerman

Interfacing LCD to Arduino - Tutorial on how to interface arduino to lcd screen (16x2 lcd, 20x4 lcd) with arduino code/program, lcd pin diagram and circuit.

 

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https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=makerspace

 

https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=ARDUINO

 

Via Gust MEES

With this project you can change the path of the electric current to run through different sensors.  With this design you can switch between lighting a Blue LED or activating a Buzzer.  You also have the choice of using a Light Dependent Resistor with the LED or Buzzer.  You can be creative and design your own circuit and add different sensors (other LEDs...).  

 

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http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=makerspace

 

Via Gust MEES, Madame Tournesol

Makerspace Materials & Products. Great Idea Starters and a FREE Supply List. Perfect For Makerspaces or a MakerEd Program at Your School or Library.

 

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https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/08/20/maker-space-a-new-trend-in-education-and-a-big-responsibility/

 

https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2017/02/09/9553/

 

http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Ideas+for+makerspaces

 

Via Gust MEES

WHERE to buy the electronics stuff!? I am getting very often asked from persons WHO follow my curation (ideas for makerspaces) and my blog posts WHERE they can buy the necessary proposed stuff. Please find below a non-exhaustive list: List of online Electronics shops (mostly for Europe, but some are delivering ALSO global)

 

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https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/08/20/maker-space-a-new-trend-in-education-and-a-big-responsibility/

 

http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Ideas+for+makerspaces

 

Via Gust MEES

By assigning students a one-minute, social-media-friendly video reflecting on their makerspace experience, you encourage them to bring their learning into the world where they live.

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