How-To: Ruler Pencil Holder
Sure, you could bring an apple to the teacher on the first day of school. But, they’d probably like an awesome DIY ruler pencil holder a whole lot more!
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Help a Maker Out — A Call for School Project Advice
Know anything about accelerometers and measuring velocity?
Plaid Notebook Covers
Plaid is rad and Design Sponge shows us a fun way to bring some into the mix with this DIY notebook cover tutorial.
7 Residence Hall Hacks for Improving Dorm Life
We’ve rounded up a few fun DIY projects to enhance dorm life, ensuring your semesters are a bit more fun or geeky.
A Real “Man of Steel”
Have you ever talked with someone and just gotten a sense that they were a really good person? I felt that way after speaking with Mark Haygood about his full scale humanoid robot, Hex. He has big plans to improve Hex and develop him into a kit that can be used by schools and youth programs to interest kids in technology.
Why Educators Love Maker Faire 2013
Teachers love Maker Faire because they see how much it means to engage their students as makers. For Teacher Appreciation Week, we want to salute educators who bring the Maker movement to kids in schools and in after-school programs. We believe making has the power to transform education and develop the potential of every child to create and innovate. Getting making into schools can be difficult so we’re particularly happy to applaud the efforts of pioneering educators who are leading the way. It’s important that these pioneers realize that they’re not alone.
Father/Daughter Raspberry Pi-Based State Poster Project
With some help from her dad Scott, second grader Emma made this Raspberry Pi-controlled interactive trifold poster about the state of Vermont, for a school project. Pushing a button cycles through the different agricultural industries of the state, complete with lights and animal sound effects. Other buttons play recordings of the state bird singing and the state song. There is also a “quiz mode,” which tests the viewer on what they’ve learned.
