[GET] The New Shop Class: Getting Started With 3D Printing, Arduino and Wearable Tech

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The New Shop Class
Getting Started With 3D Printing, Arduino and Wearable Tech

From the Introduction...

Arduino. 3D printing. Wearable tech. What is all this stuff? If you are a parent, teacher, or school administrator, you may be aware of a wave that the young people in your life are riding, but you may feel like you are caught in a riptide of terminology and being towed farther and farther from land. As technologists working in this sphere, we became aware of many people who felt like you do (and we got tired of answering the same questions many times). To try to make information available more broadly than we could in person, we have written this book to answer your critical questions. What does it cost to get started with these technologies?

What do I have to learn to get started? Beyond that what will I (or my kids) learn by taking on these challenges?

The technologies we talk about in this book for the most part arose out of a do-it-yourself, “hacker” or “maker” culture. This culture (which you will read more about in Chapter 1) frames learning as something you do yourself, usually online or by making things with like-minded people. A disconnect between this culture and traditional education has developed. The authors are a traditionally educated aeronautical engineer-turned-educator (Joan) and a self-taught hacker and 3D-printer expert (Rich, known online as “Whosawhatsis”).

In this book we come together and explore the gaps and similarities in our world views.

Through our partnership, we try to show a model of how traditional education can merge with the makers and hackers of the world to create a much richer learning experience than is possible to have by learning passively.

Chapter 1 gives you an overview of the difference in mindset between the two of us and provides a road map for the rest of the book.

Chapters 2–4 go into some detail with regard to some of the basic technologies:
an easy-to-learn microprocessor called an Arduino, 3D printing, and robotics.

Chapter 5 shifts a little and talks about how people are creating spaces to learn by making things, both in public spaces and at schools.

Chapter 6 talks about building on these base technologies to do “citizen science” (real science projects with general-public participants).

Chapter 7 is an introduction to the world of wearable technology—creating clothing that can light up, react to the world around it, or just do things that seem like magic.

Chapter 8 is an overview of some easier technologies and explains our view on why you may not want to start with these training wheels.

Chapters 9–11 take a step back to talk about the cultures that grew these technologies. Chapter 9 gives you some insight into the open source world—a technology community in which everyone shares ideas and builds on them.

Chapter 10 discusses how to bring girls and women into the maker community, where they are wildly underrepresented.

Chapter 11 explores the case study of a community college program focused on having students make things, including a project to create 3D-printed objects for the blind.

Chapters 12–14 shift to talking about some of the motivation for bringing a maker style into a classroom,including the fact that it is a good way to encourage students to become scientists. These three chapters discuss how scientists actually work and think and tell stories of how many of them came to science through a love of taking things apart. You may see some of your young makers in these stories.

Finally, Chapters 15–17 bring it all together and discuss how the other chapters all bring evidence that some of the best learning comes through actually creating something with your own hands, arguing that this is a particularly effective way to learn science.

Before all that, though, we start with a foreword by some of the friends who inspired us to write this book.

Coco Kaleel came into our lives when she was about 11, and we were working at a 3D-printer company. Her parents were not technologists, and they desperately needed a guide to all things maker. They will tell you about their journey, and we hope we can make yours easier than theirs was!

Use this book as a starting point to guide your own explorations or those of a young scientist in your care. We have tried to give you pointers to many other references without being overwhelming. Of necessity, this means we have made choices about what to include and what to leave out. There are many other ways to do most of the things here, and we made the choices we thought opened the most doors. We only ask that you start stepping through those doors and out into new worlds that you will help create.

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[einwomyn]

Great share as always...

[layna61524]

@einwomyn: Thank you for your support. I started not to share this because I wasn't sure anyone would relate but the 3D printing technology is taking off.

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[tlrademaker]

Sounds interesting I'll download it and give it a read!

Thanks!!


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[mthomas]

Definitely a great share....I was just at a local Maker shop.
So this fits right into that whole movement.
Thanks