Make community llc dez 2015 (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Do helicopters need more or less energy to stay in the sky than an airplane What pushes a rocket to leave the atmosphere Why can airplanes have smaller motors than helicopters Help your students learn the answers to these and other questions! Written for educators, homeschoolers, parents--and kids!--this fully illustrated book provides a fun mix of projects, discussion materials, instructions, and subjects for deeper investigation around the basics of homemade flying objects. With the projects in this book, you can spend more time learning and experimenting, and less time planning and preparing.Complete with download links to PDF templates that expand your teaching, this is your one-stop manual for learning about, interacting with, and being curious about airflow, gravity, torque, power, ballistics, pressure, and force.In Make: Planes, Gliders, and Paper Rockets, you'll make and experiment with:- Paper catapult helicopter--add an LED light for night launches!- Pull-string stick helicopter- Rubber band airplane- Simple sled kite- 25-cent quick-build kite- Air rockets with a parachute or a glider- Foam air rocket- Rocket stands- Bounce rocket- Low- and high-pressure rocket launchers.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Even if you've never touched a 3D printer, these projects will excite and empower you to learn new skills, extend your current abilities, and awaken your creative impulses. Each project uses a unique combination of electronics, hand assembly techniques, custom 3D-printed parts, and software, while teaching you how to think through and execute your own ideas.Written by the founder of Printrbot, his staff, and veteran DIY authors, this book of projects exemplifies the broad range of highly personalized, limit-pushing project possibilities of 3D printing when combined with affordable electronic components and materials.In Make: 3D Printing Projects, you'll:- Print and assemble a modular lamp that's suitable for beginners--and quickly gets you incorporating electronics into 3D-printed structures.- Learn about RC vehicles by fabricating--and driving--your own sleek, shiny, and fast Inverted Trike.- Model a 1950s-style Raygun Pen through a step-by-step primer on how to augment an existing object through rapid prototyping.- Fabricate a fully functional, battery-powered screwdriver, while learning how to tear down and reconstruct your own tools.- Get hands-on with animatronics by building your own set of life-like mechanical eyes.- Make a Raspberry Pi robot that rides a monorail of string, can turn corners, runs its own web server, streams video, and is remote-controlled from your phone.- Build and customize a bubble-blowing robot, flower watering contraption, and a DIY camera gimbal.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How can you consistently pull off hands-on tinkering with kids How do you deal with questions that you can't answer How do you know if tinkering kids are learning anything or not Is there a line between fooling around with real stuff and learning The idea of learning through tinkering is not so radical. From the dawn of time, whenever humanity has wanted to know more, we have achieved it most effectively by getting our hands dirty and making careful observations of real stuff. Make: Tinkering (Kids Learn by Making Stuff) lets you discover how, why--and even what it is--to tinker and tinker well. Author Curt Gabrielson draws on more than 20 years of experience doing hands-on science to facilitate tinkering: learning science while fooling around with real things.This book shows you how to make:- A drum set from plastic bottles, tape, and shrink-wrap- Magnetic toys that dance, sway, and amaze- Catapults, ball launchers, and table-top basketball- A battery-powered magic wand and a steadiness game (don't touch the sides!)- Chemical reactions with household items- Models of bones and tendons that work like real arms and ankles- Spin art machine and a hovercraft from a paper plate!- Lifelong learners hungry for their next genuine experience.…