The New Shop Class connects the worlds of the maker and hacker with that of the scientist and engineer. If you are a parent or educator or a budding maker yourself, and you feel overwhelmed with all of the possible technologies, this book will get you started with clear discussions of what open source technologies like 3D printers, Arduinos, robots and wearable tech can really do in the right hands. Written by real "rocket scientist" Joan Horvath, author ofMastering 3D Printing, and 3D printing expert Rich Cameron (AKA whosawhatsis),The New Shop Classis a friendly, down-to-earth chat about how hands-on making things can lead to a science career.

Get practical suggestions about how to use technologies like 3D printing, Arduino, and simple electronicsLearn how to stay a step ahead of the young makers in your life and how to encourage them in maker activitiesDiscover how engineers and scientists got their start, and how their mindsets mirror that of the maker

As an engineer and management consultant, Joan Horvath has coordinated first-of-a-kind interdisciplinary technical and business projects, helping people with no common vocabulary (startups, universities, small towns, etc). work together. Her experience as a systems engineer has spanned software development, spacecraft flight operations, risk management, and spacecraft/ground system test and contingency planning.As an educator, Joans passion is bringing science and technology to the non-specialist in a comprehensible and entertaining way that will stay with the learner for a lifetime.Rich Cameron is a cofounder of Pasadena-based Nonscriptum LLC. Nonscriptum consults for educational and scientific users in the areas of 3D printing and maker technologies. Rich (known online as Whosawhatsis) is an experienced open source developer who has been a key member of the RepRap 3D-printer development community for many years. His designs include the original spring/lever extruder mechanism used on many 3D printers, the RepRap Wallace, and the Deezmaker Bukito portable 3D printer. By building and modifying several of the early open source 3D printers to wrestle unprecedented performance out of them, he has become an expert at maximizing the print quality of filament-based printers. When he's not busy making every aspect of his own 3D printers better, from slicing software to firmware and hardware, he likes to share that knowledge and experience online so that he can help make everyone elses printers better too.

Front Matter: Featuring a Foreword by Coco Kaleel, Mosa Kaleel, and Nancy Kaleel

Part 1. The Technologies

Chapter 1. 21st Century Shop Teacher

Chapter 2. Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and Programming Physical Things

Chapter 3. 3D Printing

Chapter 4. Robots, Drones, and Other Things that Move

Part 2. Applications and Communities

Chapter 5. Makerspaces and Hackerspaces

Chapter 6. Citizen Science and Open Source Labs

Chapter 7. Cosplay, Wearable Tech and the Internet of Things

Chapter 8. Circuits and Programming for Kids

Chapter 9. Open Source Mindset and Community

Chapter 10. Creating Female Makers

Chapter 11. Making at a Community College and Beyond

Part 3. How Scientists Get Started

Chapter 12. Becoming a Scientist

Chapter 13. How Do Scientists Think?

Chapter 14. What Do Scientists Do All Day?

Part 4. Tying It All Together

Chapter 15. Learning by Iterating

Chapter 16. Learning Science by Making

Chapter 17. What Scientists Can Learn from Makers

Appendix: Links