This Appendix aggregates all the links in the book in one place for ready reference. If a link appeared more than once, it is just listed in the place it appeared first.

Author and Foreword Sites

Joan and Rich’s company site, Nonscriptum LLC: www.nonscriptum.com

Joan’s blog: www.joanhorvath.com

Rich’s blog: www.whosawhatsis.com

Coco Kaleel’s blog: www.veryhappyrobot.com

Chapter 1: 21st Century Shop Teacher

Jargon File’s definition of a hacker: www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html

Sparkfun Electronics: www.sparkfun.com

Adafruit: www.adafruit.com

Common Core Initiative: www.corestandards.org

“The Death Of Shop Class And America’s Skilled Workforce” from Forbes, by Tara Tiger Brown: www.forbes.com/sites/tarabrown/2012/05/30/the-death-of-shop-class-and-americas-high-skilled-workforce

“Is the Era of Mass Manufacturing Coming to an End?” from Harvard Business Review, by Peter Acton: https://hbr.org/2014/12/is-the-era-of-mass-manufacturing-coming-to-an-end

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

Ardusat, a small Ardunio-controlled spacecraft: www.ardusat.com

Processing tutorials: https://processing.org/tutorials/overview/

Processing IDE interface reference: https://processing.org/reference/environment/

Arduino: http://Arduino.cc

Instructables project site: www.instructables.com

Qtechknow electronics: www.qtechknow.com

Fritzing circuit software: www.fritzing.org

123D Circuits: www.circuits.io

Raspbian, a Linux distribution for Raspberry Pi: www.raspbian.org

Raspberry Pi: www.raspberrypi.org

Circuit Stickers: www.circuitstickers.com

LittleBits: http://littlebits.cc

LightUp: www.LightUP.io

Arduino forum: http://forum.arduino.cc

Let’s Make Robots: www.letsmakerobots.com

Hackaday: www.hackaday.com

The Maker Shed: www.makershed.com

Chapter 3: 3D Printing

Wikipedia’s article on 3D printing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_printing

The RepRap open source 3D-printer project: www.reprap.org

MIT’s Technology Review: www.technologyreview.com

The open-access scientific journal PLOS ONE: www.plosone.org

3D Printer World: www.3dprinterworld.com

3Ders 3D-printing community: www.3ders.org

Tinkercad 3D modeling site: www.tinkercad.com

Solidworks 3D modeling software: www.solidworks.com

OpenSCAD 3D modeling programming language site: www.openscad.org

Blender 3D modeling site: www.blender.org

Maya 3D modeling software: www.autodesk.com/products/maya/overview

Z-Brush 3D modeling software: www.pixologic.com/zbrush

FreeCAD 3D modeling software: www.freecadweb.org

Thingiverse 3D printable objects site: www.thingiverse.com

YouMagine 3D-printable objects site: www.youmagine.com

Leopoly 3D modeling and printable objects site: www.leopoly.com

The U.S. National Institutes of Health’s centralized database of medical-interest 3D-printing files: http://3dprint.nih.gov

MatterControl 3D-printing software system: www.mattercontrol.com

Shapeways 3D-printing service bureau: www.shapeways.com

iMaterialize 3D-printing service bureau: http://i.materialise.com

Sculpteo 3D modeling software: www.sculpteo.com

Solid Concepts 3D-printing service bureau: www.solidconcepts.com

3D Hubs 3D-printing community/service bureau: www.3dhubs.com

Makexyz 3D-printing community/service bureau: www.makexyz.com

Chapter 4: Robots, Drones, and Other Things That Move

FIRST Robotics: www.usfirst.org

Wikipedia’s entry on electric motors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_motor

Pololu: www.pololu.com

Hobby King: www.hobbyking.com

3D Robotics: www.3drobotics.com

Robot obstacle course: www.instructables.com/id/Qtechknow-Robot-Obstacle-Course

Crazyflie, an open source programmable quadcopter: www.bitcraze.se

FAA’s draft rules for hobbyist drones: www.faa.gov/uas/model_aircraft/

Botball: www.botball.org

Fuzzbot robot instructions: www.instructables.com/id/FuzzBot

Chapter 5: What’s a Makerspace (or Hackerspace)?

Meetup.com: www.meetup.com

Crashspace hackerspace: www.crashspace.org

Machine Project: www.machineproject.org

Vocademy, The Hackerspace: www.vocademy.com

Artisan’s Asylum: http://artisansasylum.com

The Fab Lab network: www.fablabs.io

Fab Lab governing foundation: www.fabfoundation.org/about-us

Fab Academy: www.fabacademy.org

TechShop: www.techshop.ws

LA Biohackers: www.biohackers.la

“How to Make (almost) Anything” class at MIT: http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.14/

The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose: www.thetech.org

Tinkering Studio at The Exploratorium in San Francisco: http://tinkering.exploratorium.edu

Kidspace Museum in Pasadena: www.kidspacemuseum.org

LA Makerspace: www.lamakerspace.com

The Windward School in Los Angeles: www.windwardschool.org

The Center For Early Education in West Hollywood, California: www.centerforearlyeducation.org

Scratch programming environment: https://scratch.mit.edu

St. Matthew’s Parish School in Pacific Palisades, California: www.stmatthewsschool.com

St. Matthew’s Parish School’s Project Idea & Realization Lab (PIRL): www.creatorsstudio.org

Chapter 6: Citizen Science and Open Source Labs

SETI@Home: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu

The Galaxy Zoo project: www.galaxyzoo.org

Zooniverse citizen science site: www.zooniverse.org

The Old Weather project: www.oldweather.org

The Christmas Bird Count project: www.audubon.org/conservation/science/christmas-bird-count

Cornell University Ornithology Lab: www.birds.cornell.edu

The Port of Los Angeles: www.portoflosangeles.org/about/facts.asp

Polyphagous shot hole borer (PSHB): http://ucanr.edu/sites/socaloakpests/Polyphagous_Shot_Hole_Borer/

PSHB observation collection site: www.inaturalist.org/projects/scarab

Weather stations category on Instructables: www.instructables.com/howto/weather+stations/

Sensors category on Instructables: www.instructables.com/howto/sensors/

Tekla Labs project at University of California at Berkeley: www.teklalabs.org

“Build My Lab” contest on Instructables: www.instructables.com/contest/buildmylab/

Michigan Tech Open Sustainability Technology Lab’s optics lab equipment: www.appropedia.org/Open_source_optics

“Open-Source 3D-Printable Optics Equipment” in PLOS ONE: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0059840

Public Lab: www.publiclab.org

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

Anouk Wipprecht, fashiontech designer: www.anoukwipprecht.nl

Particle Dress open source wearable tech project: www.instructables.com/id/JOIN-OUR-OPEN-SOURCE-ELEMENT-DRESS/

Becky Stern, wearable tech designer: www.beckystern.com

Adafruit tutorials page: http://learn.adafruit.com

Limor “Lady Ada” Fried, the founder of Adafruit: www.adafruit.com/about

Sparkle Skirt: https://learn.adafruit.com/sparkle-skirt

LED goggles tutorial: https://learn.adafruit.com/kaleidoscope-eyes-neopixel-led-goggles-trinket-gemma/

Mathematical knitting: www.toroidalsnark.net/mathknit.html#smmk

MIT’s self-assembly lab: www.selfassemblylab.net/ProgrammableMaterials.php

The GlowCap: www.vitality.net

MIT Media Lab researcher David Rose’s book Enchanted Objects: http://enchantedobjects.com

Ravelry: www.ravelry.com

Amateur costuming website: www.costume.org

Chapter 8: Circuits and Programming for Kids

The Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab: https://llk.media.mit.edu

Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com

The Transformative Learning Technologies Lab at Stanford: https://tltl.stanford.edu

Bird Brain Technologies: www.birdbraintechnologies.com

The CREATE (Community Robotics, Education And Technology Empowerment) lab at Carnegie Mellon University: www.cmucreatelab.org

KitHub: http://kithub.cc

Indiegogo: www.indiegogo.com

Circuit Scribe: www.electroninks.com

MaKey MaKey: www.makeymakey.com

MaKey MaKey piano: www.makeymakey.com/piano

Squishy Circuits: http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/apthomas/SquishyCircuits/

ElectronInks: www.electroninks.com

Bitlab: http://littlebits.cc/bitlab

Chibitronics, makers of Circuit Stickers: www.chibitronics.com

LEGO Mindstorms: www.lego.com/en-us/mindstorms/

FIRST LEGO League: www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/fll

Hummingbird robot controller: www.hummingbirdkit.com

S4A (Scratch For Arduino): http://s4a.cat

Ardublock: http://blog.ardublock.com

Chapter 9: Open Source Mindset and Community

A teletype machine: www.quickiwiki.com/en/Teletype_Corporation

The RepRap Wallace: www.reprap.org/wiki/Wallace

RepRap project evolutionary tree: http://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap_Family_Tree

GNU licenses: www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html

Creative Commons licenses: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Github: www.github.com

National civic hacks site: http://hackforchange.org

Chapter 10: Creating Female Makers

“You’re a good man, Dr. Smurf” by Martha Beck: www.salon.com/1999/02/16/feature_378/

Parable of the Polygons: http://ncase.me/polygons/

National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Scientists and Engineers Statistical Data System (SESTAT), 2010: www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/2013/tables.cfm

Society of Women Engineers’ report on the status of women in engineering professions: http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/index.php/trends-stats#activePanels

The Laurel School in Ohio’s Center for Research on Girls: www.laurelschool.org/page.cfm?p=625

The National Center for Women and Information Technology: www.ncwit.org

The Anita Borg Institute’s “Why Women Leave” infographic: http://anitaborg.org/insights-tools/why-women-leave/

Intel’s “MakeHers” report: www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/technology-in-education/making-her-future.html

Los Angeles Times article “Toy makers learn that construction sets aren’t just for boys anymore”: www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-girls-toys-20141214-story.html

The New York Times article “How Elementary School Teachers’ Biases Can Discourage Girls From Math and Science”: www.nytimes.com/2015/02/07/upshot/how-elementary-school-teachers-biases-can-discourage-girls-from-math-and-science.html

The Marlborough School: www.marlborough.org

The Castilleja School: www.castilleja.org

Bridgette Mongeon’s blog: http://creativesculpture.com/blog/

Roominate: www.roominatetoy.com

Goldieblox: www.goldieblox.com/

DIY Girls: www.diygirls.org

Chapter 11: Making at a Community College and Beyond

Pasadena City College: www.pasadena.edu

The DIAGRAM (Digital Image and Graphic Resources for Accessible Materials) Center: http://diagramcenter.org

Benetech: www.benetech.org

Chapter 13: How Do Scientists Think?

PLOS open access journals: www.plos.org

Chapter 15: Learning by Iterating

“The Tacoma Narrows Bridge” on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_%281940%29

“Bhopal Disaster” on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

“United States airliners 1950–1959” category on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:United_States_airliners_1950%E2%80%931959

Nancy Leveson’s MIT website: http://sunnyday.mit.edu

Common Core standards: www.corestandards.org/about-the-standards

The Buck Institute: http://bie.org

RepRap Huxley: http://reprap.org/wiki/Huxley

“Makerbot Industries” on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MakerBot_Industries

Chapter 16: Learning Science By Making

Peppytides peptide models: www.peppytides.org

Rich’s set of planetary gears: www.youmagine.com/designs/quick-print-gear-bearing

DIAGRAM Center’s 3D printing research recommendations: http://diagramcenter.org/3d-printing.html

The Castilleja School’s Bourn Idea Lab: http://bournidealab.blogspot.com

Chapter 17: What Scientists Can Learn From Makers

Bug traps: www.bugdorm.com

Richard Stouthamer’s lab at UC Riverside: www.entomology.ucr.edu/faculty/stouthamer.html

3D model of the Homunculus Nebula: www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/astronomers-bring-the-third-dimension-to-a-doomed-stars-outburst/