From how their parents helped to what’s on their workbench right now, to kid-to-kid advice, 10 young makers tell their stories in ‘The Making of a Maker‘ at Parentage, a magazine online by baby monitor manufacturer Sproutling. Each kid has a unique story to tell about why they’re a maker.
So we interviewed 10 kids who make, craft, code, build, tinker, and hack, and got them to talk about what gets them to geek out. We also asked them how parents can encourage their own kids to chase their creativity.
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, or even use Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for MakeCode, CircuitPython, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
Have an amazing project to share? The Electronics Show and Tell with Google Hangouts On-Air is every Wednesday at 7:30pm ET! To join, head over to YouTube and check out the show’s live chat – we’ll post the link there.
