Maker Space and Elective

Suddenly the elective is over and I didn't blog nearly enough about it. The L shaped room has slowly started to transform more into a maker space one one leg and computer space on the other. The  maker space look and ideas came entirely from a Maker meeting at The St. Matthew's Parish School. Lead by John Umekubo, teachers from the LA area and south gathered to learn and collaborate and of course MAKE.

The elective began with the Arduino's and the idea was generally to work on programming them and seeing what we could do with the LCD's, LED, motors, transistors etc. that we received with the kits that we purchased. About half way through the class a few students asked if they could make an airplane and place the arduino controlled motor in it. Well several iterations later we decided to use the 3D printer to print boat and propellers - the making had begun. The video below tells the story - I can't explain how excited I was to see all these things happen!