The SteamHead MakeFashion Edu Team joined forces with Make Media and participated in their Maker Camp Live Series. We broadcast this video out to all their channels, and we hope some kids, parents, and kids at heart enjoy this fun, light-up dino spike project! Thanks to Mike Shaw for hosting us in his home studio and producing this project.
In the class, we teach how to up-cycle plastic for use in wearable tech (and anything else you can imagine) and made dino spikes, then we walked the students through basic circuitry and how to use as MOSFET as a kind of switch that uses the human body as a conductor to turn the lights on and off.
Thanks to Make and Maker Camp. Check out the rest of this great program at http://makercamp.com/
This video is the story of how I wanted to fill the need for a crafting table in my wife’s workspace, and how I dove in head first to building it from wood, knowing very little about woodworking. How-to videos often come from the perspective of an expert showing off their craft; my video is more of a how-to on how to approach being a maker, how to learn new skills, how to be flexible, how to fail, and how to get help. I am NO expert woodworker. I’m a novice, at best–if I can lay claim to that title at all. The thing I can do is tell stories, and I’m trying to point that skill toward myself as a way to communicate the value of making things and to inspire others to become makers.
Only after spending a lot of time following James and Carrie around and making videos, have I finally started to understand how to be a maker. On the one hand, it seems obvious: just make things. But, it’s really a more complex ideology than that. It’s about creating, modifying, and otherwise shaping the world around you for the better, in ways both big and small. Also, it’s a rejection of disposable consumer consumption in favor of quality, custom solutions to problems that suit one’s needs. That’s a long way to say that I’m finally starting to feel like a maker, and I have James and Carrie to thank for that, because I don’t think I would have considered doing this project or this video if I hadn’t seen them and all the great people in this community in action.
I hope you like my video, and that you walk away inspired to make something or learn something new.
Gavin, SteamHead’s Californian intern and current middle school student, edited and cut together this year’s MakeFashion Edu video! This is our first student-led production, with students both filming and editing. Here are some words from Gavin on the project:
“This is the MakeFashion Edu Tucson 2020 video. In this video you can see students from various different ages showing off their hard work and amazing outfits. I was so excited to hear that I would be working on a project for SteamHead and Make Fashion Edu were I would get to use a higher level editing software than normal. I turned it into a more fun and upbeat video with a new song. I also edited it so the cuts and transitions flow better with the beat of the song.
I learned through various YouTube videos and got some help from Mike Shaw and James Simpson. I had a lot of fun experimenting with various techniques and effects. Everyone did a great job in the fashion show and this was overall a great experience. If you want want to watch the video click on this link:”
