BE A MAKER PROJECTS FOR KIDS WHO LOVE ROBOTICS I lil III JAMES BOW CRABTREE Publishing Company www crabtreebooks com
TIME TO Look around you Most things you see have been made by people Everything from the chair you are sitting on to the computer you are working at has been made by either a person or a machine And if it was made by a machine then that machine was made by a person somewhere down the line Someone thought about it and someone invented it MAKERS Making things makes us who we are It is why most of us live in houses and not in trees or caves We built shelters We built tools that made jobs easier We turned these tools into machines that work for us Recently we have turned these machines into robots that can think for themselves But making is about more than just building things Unlike most of the animals around us we imagine and we create We learn from our mistakes and grow through experimentation And most of all we share our knowledge so we can keep on improving what we make A lot of people both students and professionals are making the robots of
MAKING ROBOTS In this book we will be learning about robots Robots were created because people experimented with machines that made work easier They imagined they created they tested they made mistakes and they learned from those mistakes They shared their knowledge and inspired others to build better robots Robots were imagined centuries ago and only started to do work in the 1900s Today robots are a big part of our lives MAKERSPACES In this book we will be learning from others who have changed the world by making things We will follow their process of turning ideas into reality Places where knowledge is shared and people build things are called makerspaces In these places we unleash our creativity and invent new ways of doing things or adapt old ways to make new things We learn and grow Makerspaces can be found anywhere like your library your community center your school or even on the Internet By reading this book and trying some of the activities inside you can create your own makerspace n Yeo Monty made by the robotics company Anybots can pick things up and is operated remotely by a person using a special glove Y BOT Be a Maker What sort of robot would you build if you could What would you want it to do Have you read anything about robots or seen robots in
