Making 101

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March 19th, 2016

Boise State University

Making 101
Getting started in making with open-source hardware and software

Shashank Bangalore Lakshman


@shashankbl

Agenda

What is Making?

Origins of Making

Making in the 21st century

How?

Resources

Concluding remarks

Questions

Maker Hacker Entrepreneur

@AirQuail

What is Making?

What is Making?

creation, putting together

Origins of Making

Origins of Making
A short lesson in human evolution

Origins of Making
Humans in 2nd Millennium
1000

PRINTING
PRESS

1500

INDUSTRY

STEAM
ENGINE

1700

1900

2000

LIGHT BULB,
RADIO,
AIRPLANE

BATTERY

COMPUTER

INTERNET

Making in the 21st century

Making in the

st
21

century

Lego: Minimalist, Re-configurable and Scalable


Toy for creatives and kids alike!

Making in the

MATERIAL

SOFTWARE

st
21

MODERN
MAKING

century

HARDWARE

Making in the

st
21

century

Making is a group activity

Makers are real communities:


Work in public spaces, private spaces and virtual
spaces

Maker communities exist around the world


Technology is at its most accessible form in
2016!

Making in the

st
21

century

Making is the New Industrial Revolution!

Making is decentralized

Making is non-institutionalized

Making has no starting line hurdles

Making in the

st
21

century

Making needs NO EXPERTISE in most


situations!

Making is an ALL AGES activity

Making is an ALL GENDER activity

Making needs NO DEGREE from university

How to MAKE?

Getting started
MATERIAL

HARDWARE

SOFTWARE

3D printing

Arduino

C/C++

Laser cutting

Raspberry Pi

Processing

Laser etching

TI launchpad

JavaScript

CNC

Sensors

HTML

Actuators

Design / CAD

Robots

Simulators

Getting started
MATERIAL

3D printing
Laser cutting
Laser etching

Open-source:
Thingiverse, Pinshape

Getting started
MATERIAL

3D printing
Laser cutting
Laser etching

Custom design:
Autodesk 360, OpenSCAD, Cura
CAD programming

Getting started
MATERIAL

3D printing
Laser cutting
Laser etching

Custom design: CorelDraw, Blender 3D,


Adobe Photoshop

Getting started
HARDWARE

Arduino
Raspberry Pi
TI launchpad
Sensors
Actuators
Robots
Simulators:
https://123d.circuits.io/

Getting started
SOFTWARE

C/C++
Processing
Python

JavaScript & HTML


Ionic
Android & iOS
Design / CAD Fritzing
Simulators

How to MAKE?
Imagination

Collaborate

MAKE

Reuse

Design

$80 Quick Start Guide


Buy some open-source hardware:
a) Arduino and b) Grove Starter Kit for Arduino

Install Arduino IDE and libraries for Grove kit


www.arduino.cc

Tinker with example code


www.github.com/Seeed-Studio/Sketchbook_Starter_Kit_V2.0

$0 Quick Start Guide


Create a free account on Autodesk 123D Circuits
https://123d.circuits.io/

Approach to Art of Making


Ideas
+
Imagination

Tinker

Test

Resources

Online resources
Thingiverse

Arduino.cc

Pinshape

RaspberryPi.org

Particle.io
RedBearLab.com
SeeedStudio / Sparkfun / Amazon / eBay
/ Adafruit / Odd wires / Element16 /
Digilent
Github

Hackster.io
Autodesk 123D circuits
Fritzing

Recommended Reading

Bunnie Huang, MIT PhD & Hacker


http://www.bunniestudios.com/

Making in Treasure Valley

Co-working space

Public 3D printers
and books

Co-working space

500 S 8th St.


Boise, ID 83702

715 S. Capitol Blvd.


Boise , ID 83702

33 East Idaho Avenue,


Meridian, ID 83642

www.trailheadboise.org

www.boisepubliclibrary.org

www.newventureslab.com

Making in Treasure Valley

713 N. Main Street


Meridian, Idaho 83642
www.mldunbound.org

Makerspace with
physical resources

Making in Treasure Valley

Coming soon! JUMP in Boise downtown

Concluding remarks

Congratulations!
You are initiated into MAKING!
TryTryTeamProceedFailCorrectTry

It is human to consume,
it is divine to make

Thank
you!
Shashank
@shashankbl
www.shashankbl.com

Questions?!

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