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August 2020
Brown Dog Gadgets – Build Solar Bugs
Create a solar powered insect that zips around and makes noise! Learn about solar energy in a fun and creative way! The new solar bug design has students creating a simple solar circuit in minutes using only conductive tape! Cut out your bug, decorate it, then add the included solar cell and vibrating motor! These bugs will zip around any smooth surface when in direct sunlight and make a silly clattering sound. Materials Needed: Solar Bug Kit Scissors coloring supplies…
Find out more »The League of Young Inventors – Morse Code Flashlight
Ever wonder how to send secret messages to your friends? Join The League of Young Inventors and build a Morse Code Flashlight using the Teknikio Sparking Sense kit. We will invent our own flashlights to send coded messages, even from far away and in the dark! Your custom-built flashlight will have an unusual switch that allows you to control pulses of electricity. (It’s science and engineering at work.) Materials: Teknikio Sparking Sense kit 6" craft stick / tongue depressor 1"…
Find out more »Scrappy Circuits – Scrappy Speakers
Scrappy Speakers Take apart a tea light. Get your Connector Brick and some old head phones ready. Queue up your favorite song and listen together. WATCH LIVE on the Family Maker Camp Facebook page or on the Kids Make: Youtube channel. Materials lists: 2 tea lights old head phones magnet wire connector brick binder clips screw driver sand paper Previous Scrappy Circuit sessions can be seen here. The teaching and learning of invention literacy is often locked behind many pre-requisite…
Find out more »Learn to Breadboard with DigiKey
Learn the basics of breadboarding with DigiKey A breadboard is a solderless platform that allows for electrical connections to be made internally. Breadboarding is an integral part of creating any electronics project. The purpose is to set up an entire circuit using through-hole parts to ensure that functionality is as expected, prior to having a printed circuit board produced. This step saves time, money, and resources. During this session, we will use a few simple components to build a circuit…
Find out more »Scrappy Circuits – Game Day
Scrappy Games The teaching and learning of invention literacy is often locked behind many pre-requisite skills and expensive STEM toys. Scrappy Circuits breaks down these barriers to learning to invent through using a modular system of bricks build by the learner and sourced for commonly found objects. This week Scrappy Circuits will share a water tag game and a Scrappy version of the game Washers. Get your core bricks ready - previous sessions can be seen here. WATCH LIVE on…
Find out more »Ping-Pong Machines with The Wonderful Idea Company
Ping-Pong Machines Use everyday materials to create a cardboard and ping-pong ball machine on your door that sounds an alarm, turns on the lights or feeds your goldfish when someone enters the room. We'll start the explorations using physical materials, ramps and rollers and then add in the digital world of sounds, LEDs and motors controlled by a Micro:bit microcontroller. There's no limit to how far you can take this tinkering project. Materials: Analog ping-pong balls cardboard (from recycled boxes)…
Find out more »Scrappy Circuits – Next Steps
Scrappy Circuits Connections and Next Steps The teaching and learning of invention literacy is often locked behind many pre-requisite skills and expensive STEM toys. Scrappy Circuits breaks down these barriers to learning to invent through using a modular system of bricks build by the learner and sourced for commonly found objects. This week we talk about how to integrate scrappy circuits with various microcontrollers like your Micro:bit or a Makey Makey. Get your core bricks ready - previous sessions can…
Find out more »MakeFashion Edu: Spikes and Horns
Become a Dinosaur with a Plastic Bag We all wanted to be a dinosaur at one point or another, I know I did! Now you can be a dinosaur any day you choose (and help the planet while doing it!). Learn how to upcycle used plastic bags and fashion it into a wearable spiky spine you can add on top of your clothing. Want more? Using a MOSFET and some bright LEDs, we will also show you how to make…
Find out more »October 2020
Make Decorative Día De Los Muertos Calavera with Sandy Roberts
Make: Decorative Día De Los Muertos Calavera with Sandy Roberts! Learn the history, chemistry, and craft behind making sugar skulls --Calaveras -- a traditional part of the Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead. Then we'll learn to make our own and decorate them. As an extra bonus, we'll make a light-up sugar skull card! Watch and make LIVE on the Family Maker Camp FB page or on the Make: Kids Youtube channel. Materials list: table sugar powdered sugar…
Find out more »Robot Haunted House with Code Joy Edu
Make a Robot Haunted House with Code Joy! Elby is nervous about riding through the Haunted House at the Little Bot Amusement Park. Perhaps he’d feel a bit more at ease if we turned up the Haunted House lights and took a closer look at the mechanisms that control the attraction. With your help, CodeJoy will reprogram the ghosts and goblins, then take a ride through the Haunted House as a class. Is it really so scary? CodeJoy participants will…
Find out more »Make Fashion Edu – Make Live
Make Fashion Edu Office Hours & Make Live Showcase your piece, share your process, or come with questions and get support from the MakeFashion Edu team Join us in our “Office Hours” and let's work together online and live. Showcase your piece, share your process, or come with questions and get support from the MakeFashion Edu team (and each other)! You can see the series here: https://www.youtube.com/embed?listType=playlist&list=PLos91ixZOUedMHSycO_ClQbUtD7BFNEWc <!-- Sign up here to participate live or simply watch live on the…
Find out more »November 2020
Move and Groove with Makey Makey
Get your Makey Makey Classic and get ready to Move and Groove with Sandy Roberts! The Makey Makey is an invention kit designed by MIT. It allows a user to connect everyday objects to the computer and Internet. That means that you can control that computer using bananas, PlayDoh, aluminum foil, even graphite from a pencil! Using Scratch — a free block-based visual programming language designed for kids — we’ll merge creativity and technology to make projects that will have…
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