Electronics Projects to Build On: 4D An Augmented Reading Experience

by Tammy Laura Lynn Enz

Overview

Make a (safe!) spark with projects that teach kids the basics of electronics and then allow your makers to take it to the next level! Learn about electricity, get hands-on with lights and sounds, and use your creativity to build on what you know. Bonus video tutorials and other content available on the free Capstone 4D app gives students an augmented reality experience that goes beyond the printed page.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781543528503
Publisher:	Capstone Press
Publication date:	01/01/2019
Series:	Take Making to the Next Level 4D
Pages:	48
Sales rank:	789,375
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	8 - 10 Years

About the Author

Tammy Enz became a civil engineer because of her awe of the massive steel bridges that spanned the Mississippi River. She just had to figure out how they worked. Today, she still likes tinkering and figuring out how things work. When she isn't tinkering, she fixes up old houses and conducts experiments in her garden and kitchen. Most of all, she loves reading books about anything and everything and asking 'why?'

Table of Contents

Light Up 4

Using Leds 6

Project 1, Level 1 Lights On 7

Project 1, Level 2 Fireworks Flinger 8

All About Circuits 10

Project 2, Level 1 Simple Circuits 11

Project 2, Level 2 Parallel Circuits 14

Project 2, Level 3 Series Circuits 16

Project 2, Level 4 Light Up the Sky 19

Working with Breadboards 25

Project 3, Level 1 Breadboard Circuits and Switches 26

Project 3, Level 2 LEDs in Parallel 30

Project 3, Level 3 LEDs in Series 34

Using a Tilt Switch 38

Project 4, Level 1 Wired tilt Switch Circuit 39

Project 4, Level 2 Soldered Tilt Switch Circuit 42

Project 4, Level 3 Lights Sword 45

Read More 48

Internet Sites 48

Editorial Reviews

05/01/2019

Gr 4–6—It's nice to have a little built-in flexibility for a club or classroom activity. The four projects in each of these books are presented in levels—if you've completed one level and still have time, you can try the next, or if a step took longer than expected, you can pause your project without having to backtrack to square one. Clean design with neatly laid out instructions helps ensure success, and readily available materials reduce planning time. Chemistry stands out, with reaction projects that work despite errors; yeast will eat sugar regardless of how your balloon is aligned. By contrast, many of the built objects in Motion and Electronics will fail if construction is fumbled. Engineering is particularly suited to the incremental nature of these books. Triangles can become a truss bridge and then a geodesic dome as materials are multiplied and combined. VERDICT Great for club or classroom use.

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