About this item
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
About the Author
Colleen Graves is a middle school/high school librarian and blogger, obsessed with Learning Commons transformations, Makerspaces, technology education, making stuff, and getting girls involved in STEM. She offers the unique perspective of starting/creating two different makerspaces and Girl STEM groups in established public schools. Colleen writes and presents about creating Makerspaces in the book Challenge Based Learning in the School Library Makerspace. Plus, she collaborated with her husband to create a Makerspace project book for makers of any caliber that is peppered with classroom tips: The Big Book of Makerspace Projects: Inspiring Makers to Experiment, Create, and Learn.
