Organizations that promote hands-on learning
A call for submitting organizations that promote hands-on learning.
Education
Maker Education is such a valuable role. These stories will bring you the latest information and tales of maker educators who area spreading the maker mindset. Help others learn how to make things or how to think like a maker at makerspaces, schools, universities, and local communities. The importance of maker education can not be understated. We appreciate our educators.
Math Midway
Last night PT and I got to check out the Math Midway (soon to become the Math Museum), including the square trike PT already posted. Check out their website and mine and PT’s photos on Flickr. That other lovely lass in the pictures is Alicia Gibb from Bug Labs. The Math Midway is in NYC […]
Hinged transformation of triangle to square
The relatively straightforward swing-hinged dissection of an equilateral triangle to a square in this video is called “Dudeney’s dissection” and has been known since 1902. For a gallery of hinged dissections, check out Tse-hsuan Yang’s page at Taiwan’s National Tsing Hua University.
CAD modeling music video
I love They Might Be Giants. I love designing objects in 3D on the computer. I love turning those designs into real objects. I love this song and video!
Practical tutorial on capacitors by EEVblog
If you’ve ever wondered why there are so many types of capacitors, and what the advantages of each type are, you should definitely catch the latest installment of David L. Jones’ EEVblog.
The Belonio stove
Alexis Belonio is an associate professor in agricultural engineering at the Central Philippine University of Iloilo City. In 2008 he received a Rolex Award for Enterprise for a rice-husk-burning stove he designed. Belonio’s stove is not complicated, either mechanically or conceptually: A columnar metal burner with the addition of a small intake fan at the base to tip the stoichiometry of combustion towards oxidation, giving a blue, clean, efficient flame that leaves little or no residue. Traditional rice husk burners, by contrast, do not have this forced-air feature and produce a yellow, dirty, inefficient flame that leaves tar behind. The upshot is more efficient use of rice husk biomass and greatly reduced pollution from the many rice-husk burners in use today.
CD drive scrounged junkbots
After exploring the innards of our CD drives, students in my robotics class are coming up with some clever junkbots. Here are a few of the first ones, more to come as they evolve.As the school year begins, how do you help students understand the basics of electricity, manufacturing, and creating original devices? As a student, what are the best projects for the start of the semester or school year to get you excited to go deeper and learn more?
