Make: tech DIY : easy electronics projects for parents and kids

Title:

Personal Author EPSB:

Summary:

"Make: Tech DIY introduces younger children to the magic of electronics through the softer side of circuits! Young explorers will learn about electronics through sewing and craft projects aimed at maker parents and their children, elementary school teachers, and kids' activity leaders. Each project introduces new skills and new components in a progressive series of projects that take learners from the very basics to understanding how to use components such as sensors, transistors, and timers."--Amazon.com.

Other Title:

Tech DIY

Year Published:

2016

Physical Description:

xiii, 178 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

Before you start -- My happy house: make a circuit -- A winking rabbit doll: create a switch -- A silly ghost: working with parallel circuits -- Letter magnets: working with light-emitting diodes (LEDs) -- Purring elephant pillow: animating with motors -- Nightlight cat bracelet: working with light sensors -- A beeping, blinking UFO: using the 555 times -- Solar Sun: working with solar power -- Dice board game: programming with Scratch and Makey Makey -- The moonlit flower: using snaps as a switch.

Subject:

Science projects.

Electronics -- Amateurs' manuals.

Electronic apparatus and appliances -- Design and construction -- Amateurs' manuals.

Added Author:

Dec, Jaymes,

Added Uniform Title:

Make (Sebastopol, Calif.)

ISBN:

9781680451771

Publisher:

San Francisco, California : Maker Media, 2016.