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Sparks Fly with a Couple’s Welding Class on Valentine’s Day

Sparks Fly with a Couple’s Welding Class on Valentine’s Day

By Andrew Terranova

Andrew Terranova

Andrew Terranova is an electrical engineer, writer and author of How Things Are Made: From Automobiles to Zippers. Andrew is also an electronics and robotics enthusiast and has created and curated robotics exhibits for the Children's Museum of Somerset County, NJ and taught robotics classes for the Kaleidoscope Enrichment in Blairstown, NJ and for a public primary school. Andrew is always looking for ways to engage makers and educators.

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Forget chocolates, hot metal sparks are in the air!

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NYC Makers: Tech+Textile: An Introduction to Wearable Electronics Workshop

NYC Makers: Tech+Textile: An Introduction to Wearable Electronics Workshop

By Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox from Red-Handled Scissors is a maker of crafts, a lover of cats, an avid swearing enthusiast, a cross-stitch book author, and a general purveyor of quirk. She's also sometimes an irritable cartoon named Tiny Cranky Haley. https://www.redhandledscissors.com

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Attention NYC-area makers! If you’ve been dying to break into the world of wearable electronics, Eyebeam and Becky Stern from Adafruit have the perfect class for you: Tech+Textile: An Introduction to Wearable Electronics Workshop.

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Log Cabin Quilting with Susan Beal + 3-Month Creativebug Subscription Giveaway

Log Cabin Quilting with Susan Beal + 3-Month Creativebug Subscription Giveaway

By Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox from Red-Handled Scissors is a maker of crafts, a lover of cats, an avid swearing enthusiast, a cross-stitch book author, and a general purveyor of quirk. She's also sometimes an irritable cartoon named Tiny Cranky Haley. https://www.redhandledscissors.com

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Check out Susan Beal’s fantastic Log Cabin Quilting class on Creativebug, then enter to win a 3-month Creativebug Subscription for you and a friend!

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Learning to Think Like a Computer—Without a Computer

Learning to Think Like a Computer—Without a Computer

By Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based creative technologist and Contributing Editor at MAKE. He’s the co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and the author of Getting Started with BeagleBone.

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Ubi de Feo, an Italian from the Netherlands, wrote in to tell us about a series of workshops that he created entitled from 0 to C. The workshops teach students how computers work using everyday objects like M&M’s, ping-pong balls, cups, and wooden boxes.

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Maker courses

Maker courses

By Chris Connors

Chris Connors

Making things is the best way to learn about our world.

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Creating a Maker Course In the next month or so I will have a semester change, and with it an opportunity to restructure the sequence of three courses. Robotics, Building and Repairing Computers and Web Design are three classes that I have taught before, and am looking to streamline the content of the courses. The […]

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