Making Electronics for Education

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AnnMarie Thomas will be hosting the Hack Chat on July 21st.

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Do you make kits or products that are used in education? Are you thinking about designing products to help others learn? Do you design curriculums? If you are interested in any of these, you're in luck! We'll be discussing all the things related to making products for educational use.

In this chat, we'll be talking about ::

Ways to define your product concept
How to build an educational product
How to sell your educational product
How to find a market for your product

AnnMarie Thomas, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering and the Opus College of Business at the University of St. Thomas. She is the founder and director of the Playful Learning Lab, which explores ways to encourage children, of all ages, to embrace playful learning. She and her students created Squishy Circuits. She is the author of "Making Makers: Kids, Tools, and the Future of Innovation."

We are also fortunate to have AnnMarie judging the Hackaday Prize!

@Tindie will be in the chat too! Tindie is Supplyframe's answer to "where should I sell my hardware product?". Tindie is a place where you can buy and sell indie, open source, hardware. Many of Tindie's products are geared towards education.

Here's the sheet to guide the discussion!

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Shulie Tornel • 07/21/2017 at 19:56 • 0 comments

annmarie.p.thomas I'm an associate professor of Engineering and Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. There I run the Playful Learning Lab, where we developed Squishy Circuits, and other playful ways to approach education.

shamylmansoor Love the name of the lab!

Marko Shiva Pavlovic Hi @annmarie.p.thomas

Sophi Kravitz What other projects are you working on there?

annmarie.p.thomas I also served as the founding executive director of Maker Ed (makered.org) and wrote "Making Makers: Kids, Tools, and the Future of Education."

annmarie.p.thomas Other projects (shhh! ;-) ) are a soon to be announced education project with the band OK Go. and a Circus Science project.

Marko Shiva Pavlovic Squishy love the name for the gadgets

Sophi Kravitz this video is one of my favs:

annmarie.p.thomas If you love education and OK Go... we'd love to hear from you : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FFkogK2z8g5UkStV-8Brihm-OqR01jXdoHipLhSRKFo/viewform?ts=5947f09d&edit_requested=true

annmarie.p.thomas Squishy Circuits info can be found here: http://squishycircuits.com/

annmarie.p.thomas My research tends to focus on the intersection of art, tech, play and engineering. So it's an honor to get to cohost today!

Sophi Kravitz we're happy you could join!

Marko Shiva Pavlovic

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Using Squishy Circuits, you can create sculptures that light up, move, make noise and more!

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Jasmine Brackett >> whooooo???

Jasmine Brackett It's a woman

Sophi Kravitz there is a sheet that we use for discussion, but does anyone have anything they want to ask off the bat?

Joan Horvath I'll do a shout out for LA area folks: Annmarie will be keynoting this event in West LA Aug 3-4: https://www.windwardschool.org/page/Design2017

Sophi Kravitz and I'm curious to know how many people here in the chat are making kits/ products for education?

shamylmansoor Me!!!

Joan Horvath We write books and teach people how to use such things...

morganrallen ~sort of

annmarie.p.thomas For those of you who are making kits/products for education- I'd love to hear which ones you work on!

ctag Sort of here too

auclark1800 Eventually, I hope!

Ben Hibben I am; we (Mr Blinky Bling) specialize in custom-branded beginner-friendly soldering kits but have plans to do more elaborate curriculum in the future.

shamylmansoor I've made some simple kits, but mostly working on curriculum design and integration for schools http://learnobots.com/product/

Boian Mitov Well... I have developed Visuino up to very big extend to help kids learn to program Arduino type boards ;-)

Dhrupal R Shah Hi @annmarie.p.thomas we are working on developing evive http://evive.cc

annmarie.p.thomas We should also acknowledge that "education" means a lot of different things to different people. Are we designing for learning, and/or for formal education settings, or libraries, or museums or schools. All have different needs!

Julio Vazquez I wish to someday make my own educational kit! My dream is to use cosplay accessories as a way to get the kids' interest in electronics

morganrallen I've been making "Circuit Tiles" for use in our museum. Single purpose block connected with banana plugs

Sophi Kravitz People posting projects, please post links and twitter handles

auclark1800 What museum? @morganrallen

shamylmansoor I've also been mainly focusing on how to include making in standard school curriculums which we call curriculum integration

Boian Mitov And I have worked with Makerfabs to help them introduce this IoT starter kit, specifically designed for inexperienced in electronics:

https://www.makerfabs.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=311

annmarie.p.thomas Love this list. One of the questions from @auclark1800 asks about resources for library makerspaces. Love this. Many libraries (including ones here in St. Paul) have makerspaces.

Mark I have ideas/plans/hardware/first attempts, etc, but could use some help pulling it together. References and resources would be helpful.

annmarie.p.thomas...
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Jacob Burgess wrote 04/23/2019 at 12:26

Thank you for all the wonderful materials from https://www.makerfabs.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=311. Found many helpful things

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How I would like to participate in such an event again. It was after this that my friend and I began working on creating a resource like https://essayexplorer.com/review/paperrater/ where we could read paperrater reviews, check for plagiarism, etc. I would especially like to highlight AnnMarie Thomas and thank her for such informative answers to all questions.

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