Make: School's Out Summer Fun Guide

116 Pages·2012·45.17 MB·English

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School‘S out! 50+ projects
a celebration of amazing creations
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Our Solar Chariots ready for action. The Roller (left)
moves straight, like a dragster. The Symet Chariot (right)
spins and moves like a top when the circuit fires.
SOLAR CHARIOTS INCLUDE
PARTS
Flashing LEDs
you can attach
the circuit to
your motor and
the solar cell
to your circuit.
Heat-shrink tubing
(Again, see the
project online
for details.) 4700µF capacitors
Now take your
racers into the sunlight and start
your engines! The Symet will spin and move when
it releases its charge, and the Roller will race forward like a
solar-power dragster. For maximum racing fun, build two
Symets or two Rollers and race against your friends.
By Gareth Branwyn, MAKE Editorial Director, and Zach and
Kim DeBord
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Welcome to a Summer
6 of Making
8 How We Made This Issue 3D
10 Making Big Things in 3D
3D Photos and Video
14 on a Shoestring
Scavenge Your
17 Neighborhood
GeT your 3D
Glasses on young makers
page 16
Ben Hylak: How Maker Faire
88 Changed My Life
Sylvia Todd: Also Known As
90 Super Awesome Sylvia
Marc-Charles Morquette:
91 Future Robotics Engineer
Brian Conway:
92 Ballistics Boss
Joey Hudy: Federal
93 Marshmallow Czar
summer ProJeCTs Andrew Katz:
94 Arduino Automator
A DIY GuIDe In eAch sectIon, plus 6 more onlIne Schuyler St. Leger:
95 3D Fab Fanatic
School’s Out! Pranks
18 A Summer of Fun 56 Super TV-B-Gone
Combat Flight and more
20 Marshmallow Shooter 64 Compressed Air Rockets
I-Wei Huang’s Advice
Outdoors Electronics 98 for Young Makers
26 Backyard Zip Line 72 Print Your Head in 3D
Making More Makers
Rainy Day Weird Science 100 in “Project Make”
32 Frozen Banana Pops 80 Kryptonite Kandy
Expert Tips for
Craft Send us your Summer 104 Making with Kids
38 Silk-screen T-Shirts 86 of Making Video
Tools & Toys:
Music 108 Reviews for Kids, by Kids
46 Cigar Box Guitar
Howtoons:
112 Summer Games
founder & P uBLISHer
Dale Dougherty
Learning by Making.
Ed Wall, a technology teacher in Elmira, New York, has been in classrooms for more
than a quarter of a century. Says Ed, "the key to success is to spark an interest by
making the learning process engaging and fun."
"Making things is the key! For example, our science and math
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right. I was able to go to school administration and say, 'For an investment of about
$5000, I can use a ShopBot tool to teach three of my classes.'"
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Dale Doughtery with the Project Make class
(see page 100 for more about the program).
When I recently visited a middle school in Santa rosa, Calif.,
I saw no students. None. I learned it was the week for
standardized testing. the library and playground were empty.
The school was designed for 1,100 rooms with no windows; a science “I’m so happy you care about this
students and now serves only 300; lab that doubled as a Spanish class- school and its kids,” the principal
85% of them are low income. If par- room; a music room no longer in said. It was her birthday, and she
ents can afford it, they apply for a use, even though old instruments said she would consider the summer
transfer to a better school. These are were in view. We found a room that camp a birthday present.
the children left behind. read “Wood Shop” on the door, but I When I returned to our office,
Previously, I met with the school stepped inside to find exercise equip- I saw galleys of this “Best Summer
board and superintendent to talk ment for phys ed class. The next Ever” issue, our first devoted to kids.
about ways to introduce making into room said “Metal Shop” and was I realized we had already done a lot
schools. An assistant superintendent mostly empty, except for a storage of the hard work of selecting great
suggested that this middle school area with some old machines still projects for kids. The timing was
was a good place to start, and that hanging around. perfect, I thought. We’ll use it as a
we could make a difference by start- I knew right away this would be a guide for the summer camp.
ing with a maker-themed summer perfect space for kids. The Boys & Later the same day, I was on a call
camp, working with the local Boys Girls Club director asked if we could with this issue’s cover girl, Super
& Girls Club. paint the room. “You can do any- Awesome Sylvia, and her dad. I told
For all kids, time spent outside of thing you want,” the principal said. her about the summer camp and
school is as important, if not more Excellent, I thought, a project for the asked if she’d visit and do some fun
so, than time inside school. Some kids. She encouraged us to create projects with the kids. They’ll have
kids have perfect summers filled with a makerspace that could be used seen her on the cover, so I’m sure it
engaging activities and family trips. not just this summer, but during the would mean a lot to them to meet
They even get to spend weeks at school year too. “These kids need it,” her. Sylvia’s father said she was
incredible summer camps. Other she explained. “They need to play. beaming. So was I.
kids aren’t so lucky and don’t have They need opportunities to create.” This special issue provides all you
enough to do. Experts believe that As we talked about the program, need for a summer of making in your
summer is a period when disadvan- I warned everyone that it could be own community. Just add kids, even
taged kids give up some of the gains messy — we didn’t necessarily know some who aren’t yours. It’s going to
made during the school year. They everything but I was pretty sure the be a bit messy but lots of fun. Send
start the next year behind. kids would have a lot of fun. I recalled me some pictures or a video (page
Back at the deserted school, the the silk-screening project in our lab 86). Extra credit for 3D.
principal gave us a tour to find a and suggested that the summer
space for the summer camp. She camp could start off by inviting the
showed us a few uninspiring class- kids to make their own camp T-shirts. Dale Dougherty is founder and publisher of MAKE.
6 Make: makezine.com/schoolsout
Gregory Hayes
A Summer of
making
By Dale Dougherty