Colleen Graves - The Big Book of Makerspace Projects

Colleen Graves is a teacher librarian obsessed with learning common transformations, maker education, makerspaces and making stuff. Colleen brings a passionate artistic energy to the school library world; this passion earned her the School Library Journal/Scholastic School Librarian of the Year Co-Finalist Award in 2014 and Library Journal Mover and Shaker Innovator Award in 2016. She is an active speaker and presenter on makerspaces and the maker movement on a national level.

Aaron Graves is a school librarian with 18 years of experience in education. He is a mash-up of robot geek, book lover, and tech wizard. Aaron gained his perseverance for projects through collaborative and interactive art experiences as a member of the Good/Bad Art Collective. He is an active speaker and presenter on libraries, makerspaces, and research skills. In his free time he can be found writing, restoring microcars, or inventing something that makes you smile!

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To my mom, Susan Price, for teaching me
that all materials can be re-used
for new purposes and for giving me
a strong sense of independence and initiative.
Colleen

To Glenn Graves and C.F. Ellis
who secretly taught and inspired me
under the guise of being an assistant.
Thanks to you both
for sharing your skills
and demonstrating your craftsmanship
and ingenuity countless times!
Aaron

THIS BOOK COULD never have been finished without all the awesome makers who loaned us a listening ear when we: ran into trouble, couldnt get past the next step, or just needed a sounding board.

Thank you, Jay Silver and the entire Makey Makey team for the little Invention Kit that gave me (Colleen) the creative confidence to create enough projects to write a whole book!

We are forever grateful to Josh Burker for his support, encouragement, and sensible wisdom.

Without Jeff Branson as her maker therapist, Colleen never wouldve gained her debugging super powers. Thanks for always asking, How can I help?

A big thank you to Bev Ball and Jie Qi for their encouragement and enthusiasm about our projects! (And for being inspirational in showing us how art and engineering go hand in hand!)

Circuit gurus Marshall Garth Thompson and Shane Culp were instrumental in always making sure we were on the right path (taking the correct route if you will!)

We are forever indebted to Sensei Trey Ford of the Denton Public Library for his patience in writing Arduino code with Colleen.

Thanks to Tim Sanchez for sharing his knowledge of physics and expertise in teaching it to the masses.

Val and Viv, thanks for making stuff with us and also giving us time to write. We love you.

Thank you fellow authors Chris Barton and Jeff Zentner for your support in our journey of becoming authors.

Thank you Michael McCabe and the whole McGraw Hill team (and Patty!) for asking the impossible of us! We never knew we could write a book. Your edits, revisions, and vision have made this such an exciting project!

Lastly, our deepest gratitude is to you dear reader. We hope all of these projects instill you with the creative confidence to experiment, create, and learn new things. We cant wait to see all of the great stuff you make!

WE CREATED THIS BOOK as a makers handbook. The projects in this book will guide you through many makerspace fundamentals. Even if you have no experience in making, youll be able to pick up this book and make over half the projects. Once youve completed those, youll be an advanced maker and be able to complete the other half! For advanced makers who pick up this book, youll find some hard fun in over half the projects right from the start! Plus, youll enjoy helping others make the beginner projects to help us all in spreading the love for the maker movement.