Find this conductive paint in several sizes at Bare Conductive or Eduporium! eduporium.com; bareconductive.com

This cute little 3D printer can print with more than 20 different types of filament including T-Glaze, Copperfill & Bronzefill...to name a few! So much fun!

New at Lake!

For printing on textiles--not just t-shirts!

Endless possibilities!

Made of foam so collisions don't matter. Can be reconfigured to be a hovercraft on air or water.

Create a drone obstacle course!

Vendor: Amazon

Vendor; Maker Maven, Mackin, Amazon

3D printers print 3 dimensional objects.

3D scanners scan objects into 3D files so they can be 3D printed.

Many, many curriculum applications.

Vendors: Adafruit, Sparkfun, Amazon, Makerbot, Follett, more...

Resources: Thingiverse for student ideas, Thingiverse education for teachers, Landform Library for teachers.

New at Lake! It's a 3D Filament Recycler!

If you have the budget (about $8000--dropping in price) and students who love fabrication projects, this is pretty amazing! It's the first desktop waterjet and it can cut most any material (glass, steel, titanium!) with precision using a high pressure water jet mixed with abrasive.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOTunqOXu30

New at Lake...soooo many DIY possibilities!

High-End computers that can run big software programs such as Adobe Suite and Sculptres. These programs allow students to create and build online. Items designed can be 3D printed, or many other options. We billed these computers as “an extension of the classroom” for students who could not afford these programs for their home computers.

Source: Grant Funds

Uses the Sphero EDU app to program it.

Vendor: Amazon

Great for beginner coding. Demco now carries markers especially for use with Ozobots. There are also iPad apps available.

Vendor: Follett, Mackin, Maker Maven, Demco, Barnes & Noble

Yes! High school students are shocked and awed, too, when you can play piano on a banana!

Makey-Makeys teach about electricity and circuits and are very simple to use.

www.makeymakey.com for activities and lessons

Vendor: Adafruit, Mackin, Maker Maven

I would recommend getting some of the accessories, like the build mat that allows them to make an object in sections (and peel off easily). Then they use the pen to "glue" it all together with melted filament.

Vendor: Demco, Maker Maven, Mackin

Intro to robotics, but also good for more advanced students.

Vendor: Demco, Follett, Maker Maven

Raspberry Pi are great for your budding programmers. They are basically credit card size computers that can be programmed to do MANY different things.

Most recently, my deconstruct tinkerers built a server for us so that we could not only play minecraft using the Rapsberry Pi, we could game using the server to form teams for group play!

Vendor: Adafruit, Sparkfun, Amazon

Educational version of Minecraft (owned by Microsoft now). Teachercraft by Seann Dikkers is a good guide if you are interested in learning more.

An inexpensive microprocessor that can be used for a variety of projects. I want to look into using them for interactive clothing projects (like for cosplay).

***I would actually recommend micro.bit instead--the software is more school-friendly than Arduino's

Vendor: Adafruit, Sparkfun

Great for exploring electricity concepts. There is a pretty good variety of kits, and they aren't horrifically expensive.

Vendor: Barnes & Noble, Mackin, Demco

These kits are great for tinkering and inventing. They are pretty pricey, but there is a lot you can do with them!

Vendors: Demco, Follett

www.hourofcode.com for some great and easy activities for the annual hour of code, and consider keeping the signs up all year for interested tinkerers.

Also see:

• https://code.org/learn

• https://code.org/minecraft

• https://www.khanacademy.org/hourofcode

• much more!

My students love when I pull out this kit. It teaches some very basic electricity concepts, but is probably better for elementary to 6th.

Vendor: Demco

Students use the Bloxels set to build video game backgrounds, characters, and objects. When they take a picture of what they've made using the app, it converts it all to a 13-bit video game. Lots of fun and lots of educational applications. Also comes in a Star Wars edition, which I bought at Five Below for $5!

Vendors: Barnes & Noble, Follett, Demco, Maker Maven

These are 4 flat screen TVs with all the hookups necessary for 5 students at each collaboration station to hook up their laptop for collaborative work on the visual display. Classes book into the library to use them.

At lunch every day they double as our gaming area, which is very popular!

Our green screen gets used at least 3 times a week both by our audio visual classes, and by individual students who use it to complete class projects. If you are successful getting teacher buy in for this PBL tool, it will be very well used by your campus. This is a makerspace staple.

There are many vendors. This one is an amazon.com kit, including light. The software we use for IOS is Do-Ink and for PC is Photo Creator which was purchased from Demco

Sphero can be used 3 ways: drive it, game it, or code it. Vendor: Follett, Demco, Amazon

We introduced our sphero at CLHS using a giant floor PacMan game where we had 4 Sphero Ghosts and 1 Sphero PacMan. As they played, the tinkerers strategized and improved it until we went from just a floor map using painter's tape, to a full on arena using keva planks and keva connectors to create 3 dimensional pathways where the Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde could chase PacMan without breaking down all the walls or leaving the play area. It was a super awesome problem solving adventure for my tinkerers. Pure Maker.

Laser engravers can be used to engrave glass, cardboard, metal, paper and other nontoxic materials. The curriculum connections are multitude, and the wow factor is huge! We love ours!

Beware! Laser engravers require ventilation so they either have to be vented to the outside, or you need to purchase the fume extractor for your school environment.

LED stickers, conductive tape and more! Fun kits for exploring how electricity works. Blends technology with art.

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