MassMind Classes (from easy to advanced)
*note: Class presentations are open source, and you are free to copy and
use them. In North County San Diego, we can provide an instructor and most
materials to present these classes at your location after hours or weekends.
Prices reflect materials cost only. No instructor cost if at least 10 students
attend. More individual instruction to be negotiated.
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Plastics casting with 3D printed molds. Mold your own glowing heart, skull,
etc... from natural, reusable, low temp thermoplastic; light it up with an
LED and coin battery. Learn to quickly form multiple objects from low cost
molds. Pictures. $3
(10 K-12 and up) Combines nicely with Electronics Intro class as the throwie
can light up the cast object making it a "Glowie". We can also teach
mold making with Oogoo (a low cost rubber based on hardware store 100% silicone
caulk mixed with half as much corn starch and a little paint). Or you can
cast
with Oogoo from a 3D printed mold.
20160107,
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Collaboration
- Google Docs / Drive and how to use it to collaborate on the internet. $0
(10 to 30 middle school and up)
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Programming
in Scratch (A visual block language)
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Internet:
Web / HTML / Javascript* / IOT Intro $0 (up to 20 middle school and up)
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Intro to Web pages / HTML - Learn how to make a web page with HTML and
Javascript (HTML5)
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Intro to Web apps - Learn how to make a portable HTML5 web page that can
be installed as an app on any SmartPhone.
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HTML5 web apps interfacing to the physical world.
*Javascript is one of the most sought after programming
languages.^
^
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Electronics
Intro - Basics of electricity, LED's, batteries, current limiting resistors.
Make an LED Throwie $2 (up to 20 K-12 and up) Combines nicely with plastic
casting class, or make
Pocket
LED flashlights with this great activity by
Denise Santoro, or
LED Popup cards.
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Electronics
201 - Breadboarding circuits. Covers: Electricity, Current, Voltage,
Resistance, Ohms law, Circuits, Schematics, Breadboards, Wires, Resistors,
LEDs, Switches, Motors. $20 (5-10 middle school and up)
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Soldering - Learn how to solder electronic circuits.
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Soldering
101 - Basic Technique $2 (5-10 middle school and up)
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Soldering 102 - Build a Makerbot badge
$5 (5-10 middle school and up)
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Soldering
201 - Full instruction, and build a regulated power supply for a PC interface
card $10 (5-10 high school and up)
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Digital
Logic Intro - How one simple (NAND) logic gate can be used to build every
computing function. Learn how machines think! $0 (30 middle school and up)
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Arduino - Learn how to connect, program, and interface the world to a small
Arduino clone. Make lights blink and pulse, sense light levels, and (extra
cost/requirements) make things move with servos! Includes instructions for
connecting to many devices in the real world. Automate!
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Cheap
Intro with AdaFruit Trinket, $10 (take soldering first and pay $18 to
include servos) (10 middle school and up)
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Arduino
Intro with AdaFruit Trinket Pro (Arduino Uno clone) - $15 (take soldering
first and pay $25 to include servos) (10 middle school and up)
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Raspberry
Pi Intro - Connect and program your Raspberry Pi computer - $0 without
the RasPi, $80 for a Model B w/ power supply, wifi, case, cables.
^.
NOT including monitor, keyboard, mouse. Venue must have wifi with accessble
router. (10 senior high school and up)
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Introduction to 3D printing - how to take a design file (.STL) and slice
it for printing including printer tuning and troubleshooting. (10 high school
and up) The 3D printed object can then be used to make an Oogoo mold for
quick reproduction of additional copies in thermoplastic, epoxy, or other
riged plastics. Or you can 3D print the mold directly and cast with
Oogoo^,
or other flexible materials. To make metal parts, print a positive in PLA,
make a mold from
plaster^
or casting sand, and poor in molten metal to burn away the plastic, or make
a two part mold and remove the original before casting.
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Introduction
to OpenSCAD - Coding Reality: Basics of designing real physical objects
with a programming language. $0 (20 senior high school and up).
For a more traditional CAD system see
FreeCad
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Introduction
to G-Code for 3D Printing - Advanced class in how
G-Code controls 3D printers, what the codes
mean, and how to write custom G-Code for tricks! $0 (10 senior high school
and up)
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Motion control - Connect your computer to the real world and make it move
with servos and
stepper motors. $50 (10 senior high school
and up)
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Using GIT version control and using the
GitHub web interface.
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Lemons
to embedded solutions: Complexity and noise in the world of embedded
engineering and how to make it work for you $0 (10 senior high school and
up, after programming and electronics 101)
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Cisco ASA 5505 / 5500 Series Setup
Basic setup and configuration of a firewall / router for a small server system.
$0 (5 senior high and up, after Soldering, Internet, Raspberry Pi)
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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning: $0
(College level, after Algebra, Programming)
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NEW:
Water
Conservation: Basic presentation on the lowest cost (mostly free) ways
to use significantly less water automatically. $0 (any number of adults /
homeowners) Sections can be expanded
Interested? Have a space and a group that wants to learn after work hours?
Contact me: spamBondFig-Remove- at gmail.com or
spamJamesNewton-Remove- at MassMind.org
In development:
Other good online courses:
See also:
Events:
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