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The New Shop Class

Getting Started with 3D Printing, Arduino, and Wearable Tech

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  • Written by real "rocket scientist" Joan Horvath, author of Mastering 3D Printing, and 3D printing expert Rich Cameron (AKA whosawhatsis), The New Shop Class is a friendly, down-to-earth chat about how hands-on making things can lead to a science career.

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
  2. The Technologies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. 21st Century Shop Teacher

      • Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron
      Pages 3-15
    3. Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and Programming Physical Things

      • Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron
      Pages 17-30
    4. 3D Printing

      • Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron
      Pages 31-46
    5. Robots, Drones, and Other Things That Move

      • Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron
      Pages 47-55
  3. Applications and Communities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
    2. What’s a Makerspace (or Hackerspace)?

      • Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron
      Pages 59-71
    3. Citizen Science and Open Source Labs

      • Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron
      Pages 73-83
    4. Cosplay, Wearable Tech, and the Internet of Things

      • Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron
      Pages 85-96
    5. Circuits and Programming for Kids

      • Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron
      Pages 97-105
    6. Open Source Mindset and Community

      • Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron
      Pages 107-115
    7. Creating Female Makers

      • Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron
      Pages 117-131
    8. Making at a Community College and Beyond

      • Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron
      Pages 133-142
  4. How Scientists Get Started

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
    2. Becoming a Scientist

      • Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron
      Pages 145-158
    3. How Do Scientists Think?

      • Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron
      Pages 159-172
    4. What Do Scientists Do All Day?

      • Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron
      Pages 173-185
  5. Tying It All Together

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
    2. Learning by Iterating

      • Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron
      Pages 189-197

About this book

The New Shop Class connects the worlds of the maker and hacker with that of the scientist and engineer. If you are a parent or educator or a budding maker yourself, and you feel overwhelmed with all of the possible technologies, this book will get you started with clear discussions of what open source technologies like 3D printers, Arduinos, robots and wearable tech can really do in the right hands. Written by real "rocket scientist" Joan Horvath, author of Mastering 3D Printing, and 3D printing expert Rich Cameron (AKA whosawhatsis), The New Shop Class is a friendly, down-to-earth chat about how hands-on making things can lead to a science career.

  • Get practical suggestions about how to use technologies like 3D printing, Arduino, and simple electronics
  • Learn how to stay a step ahead of the young makers in your life and how to encourage them in maker activities
  • Discover how engineers and scientists got their start, and how their mindsets mirror that of the maker

About the authors

As an engineer and management consultant, Joan Horvath has coordinated first-of-a-kind interdisciplinary technical and business projects, helping people with no common vocabulary (startups, universities, small towns, etc). work together. Her experience as a systems engineer has spanned software development, spacecraft flight operations, risk management, and spacecraft/ground system test and contingency planning.As an educator, Joan’s passion is bringing science and technology to the non-specialist in a comprehensible and entertaining way that will stay with the learner for a lifetime.

Rich Cameron is a cofounder of Pasadena-based Nonscriptum LLC. Nonscriptum consults for educational and scientific users in the areas of 3D printing and maker technologies. Rich (known online as “Whosawhatsis”) is an experienced open source developer who has been a key member of the RepRap 3D-printer development community for many years. His designs include the original spring/lever extruder mechanism used on many 3D printers, the RepRap Wallace, and the Deezmaker Bukito portable 3D printer. By building and modifying several of the early open source 3D printers to wrestle unprecedented performance out of them, he has become an expert at maximizing the print quality of filament-based printers. When he's not busy making every aspect of his own 3D printers better, from slicing software to firmware and hardware, he likes to share that knowledge and experience online so that he can help make everyone else’s printers better too.


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eBook EUR 29.99
Price includes VAT (France)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book EUR 40.08
Price includes VAT (France)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

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