Agenda:
• Understand what it takes to create and manage a collaborative learning
space.
• Explore a variety of technologies and tools to help enhance learning.
• Learn how Maker Boot Camp was organized and how it continues to excite
people of all ages.
• Realize the importance of partnering with businesses and other organizations

Prometheus stole fire
from the gods to give
it to humanity.

Sisyphus was to roll a large
rock up a hill, only to
watch it come back down
over and over again …

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Why should we do this in our libraries?

Source: slideshare.net/bpichman

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Sample Web Forms
https://www.spcollege.edu/survey/11747
Note: a level 2 Security clearance is required if working with people under 18.
https://www.spcollege.edu/survey/16264/
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Foster collaboration

Facilitate Discovery

Playtime!

Cultivate imagination

https://www.oculus.com/en-us/dk2/
Oculus Rift Development Kit 2

Oculus Rift + Leap Motion Controller

Share experiences …
Photo credit: Chris Demmons

DIG 2109 (Digital Imaging
Fundamentals) classes visited the
lab to learn about 3D printing.
They were learning Adobe
Illustrator's 3D extruded visuals
that week. More and more classes
are signing up!

Game Development Workshops

Hmmm … we’ve been
offering a lot of
educational
opportunities, so I
wonder if we should
brand it?

“The trick is not in knowing
the single solution. It’s having
lots of different options and
solutions to turn to.”
We also show real world
examples. Circuits are in
everything! 3D design
anything! Work with robots.
Source: Wired Magazine April ,2012, page 22

http://www.ala.org/alsc/curiositycreates

Want a copy of our grant? Please send an email to
mairn.chad@spcollege.edu and I’ll send you a copy.

Workshops filled very
quickly, so we had to create
3 different sessions: 2 for
homeschoolers and the
other for the public.

Maker Boot Camp workshops
• Video Game Design (3 sessions, 4 ½ hours)
• 3D Design/Printing (3 sessions, 4 ½ hours)
• Fun With Electronics/Circuitry (3 sessions, 4 ½ hours)
• Introduction to Robotics (3 sessions, 4 ½ hours)
• Virtual Reality (3 sessions, 4 ½ hours)
• Video Editing for Film (3 sessions, 4 ½ hours)

Game Development Essentials:

After the gaming lecture, the kids built a video game!

http://www.slideshare.net/chadmairn/introducing-3d-design-and-printing-50569271

https://form.jotform.com/53475018527155
Kids could submit 3D designs to
be printed at the workshop. It
was very popular, so I had to
create a web form to keep up
with the demand!

3D Printing Process
1. Design an object via computer aided design (CAD) or animation
modeling software. Not design-oriented? Try
Shapeways, Sculpteo or Thingiverse.
2. The software will export the object as an .STL file ("stereolithography" or
"Standard Tessellation Language"), which will then be built (printed)
layer-by-layer (i.e., Additive Manufacturing).
3. Load the .STL file into the printer. (e.g., via Repetier).
4. Slice (i.e., create layers for the object). Note: Repetier integrates Slic3r
into the software.
5. 3D printing materials vary. We use PLA (Polylactic acid) filament. Visit
http://reprap.org/wiki/PLA for more information.
Source: http://goo.gl/rgOpMq

You can download your Tinkercad design into Minecraft, 3D
print it, upload it to Thingiverse, or order a print.

Matter and Form 3D scanner
https://matterandform.net/scanner

Grab a pair!
And look at 3D printing in 3D!

Source: http://bukobot.com/

http://www.slideshare.net/chadmairn/synth-kit-49047042

Using an external MIDI controller with littleBits
MIDI Out
MIDI In

MIDI Out – littleBits becomes the controller
In Ableton Live, change All Ins
to littleBits KORG W5 MIDI
Note: MIDI Out only happens via USB port.
MIDI In
MIDI Out

+
littleBits
+
Ableton Push
+
+
Ableton Live

Build your own MP3 Speaker Amplifier
Instructions at: http://goo.gl/H40fJr
More examples: http://goo.gl/v2IeHO

Autodesk's 123D Circuits Simulator
https://123d.circuits.io/

http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoStarterKit
is about $85.
Our library is now circulating
Arduino and Raspberry Pi kits!

Circulating iLab

Arduino IDE
Download: http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software

Learn electronics and programming with LightUp
Try it! https://www.lightup.io/app

Introduction to Robots
http://www.slideshare.net/chadmairn/introduction-to-robots-48392350

Image source: http://goo.gl/x1QeJu

• Faster and more efficient
• Can work in hazardous environments
• Do repetitive tasks
• More accurate
• Don’t complain
Why?

Image source: http://goo.gl/E1tPXn

Image source: http://goo.gl/r51AWgLeonardo da Vinci’s robot, ca. 1495
History of
Robots

Programming
EV3 software
NXT software
Download EV3 Software at http://goo.gl/Cvwyy6 and then learn to program at http://goo.gl/BfZ8CZ!

Visit https://www.facebook.com/MarsCuriosity on your smartphone and move through virtual reality!

Robotic Story Time!
Build it! http://goo.gl/nei4Yl

Cubelets – modular robotics

Coming soon to the Innovation Lab!
Ozobots 4M Doodling RobotConstruction Kit

Coming soon to the Innovation Lab!
Wedo Construction Kit Wonder Workshop Dash and Dot

Coming soon to the Innovation Lab!
HEXBUG VEX IQ Robotics Construction SetLEGO Mindstorms EV3

Coming soon to the Innovation Lab!
Makeblock for Arduino Learners (IR Version)Makeblock mBot Wi-Fi version

Being Built Now
Meccano

Create a Robot League
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms

Virtual Reality 2015: A Renaissance
http://www.slideshare.net/chadmairn/virtual-reality-a-renaissance

Reality - the state or quality of being real.

What is real?
Source: http://goo.gl/udstlk

What makes reality real?

Virtual Reality is a realistic simulation of an environment, including 3D
graphics, by a computer system using interactive software and hardware.

www.google.com/get/cardboard/

Images by Chris Demmons and Chad Mairn

Create a Leap Motion + Unity + VR App in 4 Minutes

VR
https://blendervr.limsi.fr/doku.php

DIY Hologram

Video Editing, April 2016
We are using one of our Macintosh
labs, so students can learn iMovie and
Adobe Premiere.

Sample interview questions for documentary film
How did you get involved with the Maker Boot Camp?
What makes technology exciting?
What was your favorite technology to explore at the MBC
(Chad's question from previous email)?
What would you like to learn more about? (Ditto)
Are video games art, are developers artists?
Tell us about the differences between teaching this subject at the
college level and at MBC.
Did you ever imagine that video games you played as a kid
would be played by kids in 2015?
What makes a video game a classic? What cabinet or early
console title has not gotten the recognition it deserves?
Source: Chris Demmons, videographer

Sample interview questions for documentary film
What do you hope that parents and kids took away from your
sessions on video games?
How is MBC different from working with the library's other
youth programs?
Has the MBC changed the way you look at technology?
Was there a common theme in the kid's MBC journals?
What do you hope that parents and kids got out of MBC?
What makes someone a "maker?"
Talk about the difference between working with college
students, and the kids at MBC.
What was your favorite session?
Are there any new additions to the lab that you'd like to show
us?
What are you hoping to do in the Innovation Lab in the future?
Source: Chris Demmons, videographer

Maker Boot Camp Celebration/Unconference, May 2016
• Our Maker Boot Camp Documentary film will be premiered.
• Participants will have opportunities to present their work.
• Community Notebooks will be shared.
• Various vendor tables to showcase technologies.
• Mini-workshops throughout the day.

Some upcoming workshops …
• Beginning Sewing For Cosplay
• Photography to Go
• Programming 101
• DIY Drone

Other topics? Visit …
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"The real voyage of discovery consists not in
seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
~ Marcel Proust

Big things can happen in small
spaces and with small budgets!

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