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| − | =ENTS KIDS= | + | =Smith & Clarke= |
| − | ==Possible Formats== | + | ==Soft Electronics== |
| − | #Standard course based
| + | ===LED Toques=== |
| − | #In-class demonstrations
| + | ===Wearable Computers=== |
| − | #Parent+child classes
| + | ===Electronic Kits=== |
| − | ==Schedule== | + | ===Electronic Bead=== |
| − | ==Topics==
| + | ===Sequin based LED=== |
| − | ===Soldering=== | + | ===Sewable Computers=== |
| − | | + | ==Hardware Wholesale== |
| − | *Chemistry of solder: Why Lead Free solder?
| + | ===5 cent LED baggy=== |
| − | *Chemistry of Flux: Why do we use flux? Why Resin, Acid or Water based?
| + | ==Recycle Strap CNC== |
| − | *The difference between solder and welding
| + | ==3D Laser Scanner Project== |
| − | *Blob or Twist? Mechanical Strength and stability
| + | ==Charity Souper Cluster== |
| − | *Free-Form or PCB? Advanced Stabilization techniques
| + | ==GreySmith Institute== |
| − | *Solder gun, Solder Pencil, Solder Paste, Reflow, and Reheat
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| − | *Through hole, and Surface Mount
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| − | ===Electronics=== | + | |
| − | *The concept of a Circuit
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| − | *Serial versus Parallel, or Series Parallel
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| − | *Ohms Law, Voltage, Amperage and Resistance
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| − | *The concept of D.C. versus A.C.
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| − | *DC Circuits
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| − | **Batteries
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| − | **Wattage, Joules, and Energy Storage Density
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| − | ***The Flashlight circuit
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| − | ***The LED variation and Polarity
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| − | ***The concept of "Voltage Drop"
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| − | **Resistance and Voltage Drop
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| − | ***The voltage divider
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| − | ***Serial LED circuits
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| − | ***Parallel LED circuits
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| − | ***The concept of "Amperage Limits"
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| − | ***Resistance and Amperage Limiting
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| − | ***Measuring Voltage, Resistance, and Amperage
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| − | **Capacitors
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| − | ***Capacitors as electrical storage
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| − | *AC circuits
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| − | **Frequency, High Frequency, Low Frequency, and Band Frequencies
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| − | **Period, and wavelength in frequency
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| − | ***Capacitors as Filters (Ripple Management)
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| − | ***High Pass, Low Pass, Band Pass
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| − | ***High Block, Low Block, Band Block
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| − | ***Coupling and Decoupling A.C. and D.C. components of a signal
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| − | ***Signals in D.C. (Binary and Analog)
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| − | ***Digital Signals versus Analog Signals
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| − | ***Analog to Digital Conversions
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| − | ***Digital to Analog Conversions
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| − | **Inductors
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| − | ***Magentic theory: Every Wire is an inductor
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| − | ***Creating Magnetic Fields, Electrical currents create magnetism
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| − | ***Detecting Magnetic Fields Moving Magnetic fields create electrical currents
| + | |
| − | ***The Building and Collapse of the Magnetic Field in A.C. currents
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| − | ***The A.C. Current, and Electro-magnetics (solenoids, electromagnets and Railguns)
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| − | ***Coils, Antennas, and other "Shaped Inductors"
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| − | ***Generators, Alternators, and Power Generation
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| − | ***Transformation, the A.C. to A.C. conversion of voltage
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| − | ***Inductors as filters
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| − | ****High Pass, low pass, and band pass filters
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| − | ****High Block, High Block, and Band Block filters
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| − | ***The Sine Wave versus the Cosine Wave
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| − | ***The Idea of Phase
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| − | ***Capacitance Phase changes
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| − | ***Inductive Phase changes
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| − | ***Phase versus Power Factor
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| − | ***The concept of a TANK circuit
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| − | ***Reactance and the concept of phase as resistance to flow
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| − | ***Radio-Waves, What is reception and transmission?
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| − | *Active Circuits
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| − | **The idea of Semi-conductors
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| − | **N doped Semi-conductors
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| − | **P doped Semi-conductors
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| − | **The idea of NP junctions
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| − | **The Diode
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| − | ***Polarity of Diodes
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| − | ***Back Voltage, and Breakdown voltage
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| − | ***Junction minimum voltages
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| − | ***Converting A.C. to D.C. using diodes
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| − | ***The Bridge
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| − | ***The Half-Bridge
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| − | ***Other Bridge Circuits
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| − | **NPN junctions (transistors)
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| − | **PNP junctions (transistors)
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| − | ***The Transistor as Switch
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| − | ***The Transistor as Amplifier
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| − | ***The Transistor as Invertor
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| − | ***The Transistor as an adjustable Capacitor
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| − | ***The Transistor as an adjustable Resistor
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| − | ***The Transistors minimum voltage
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| − | ***Ranges of Transistors
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| − | ***Switching speed versus Transistor size
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| − | ***Switching Capacitance of Large Transistors
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| − | ***The need to decouple large transistors
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| − | ***Open Sink, Versus closed sink outputs
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| − | ***Tristate why a high inductance output limits transistor response
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| − | ***Current limiting of Transistor Outputs
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| − | ===Radio=== | + | |
| − | *What is a Spectrum
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| − | *The Radio Spectrum
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| − | *Generating Radio waves by Induction
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| − | *Why both the transmitter and the receiver have Frequency Control circuits
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| − | *The RC, RL, and Tank Circuits versus the Quartz Crystal
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| − | *Resonance and Reactance
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| − | *Amperage and Voltage Versus Radio Range
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| − | *Amplitude Modulation (AM)
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| − | *Frequency Modulation (FM)
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| − | *Frequency Jumping, and Spread Spectrum
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| − | *Cellular Concepts
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| − | **What is a Cell
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| − | **Why does reception vary across the City/Country
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| − | **Traveling from Cell to Cell
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| − | **Digital vs. Analog Cell Signals
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| − | **Does A Digital Signal assure privacy?
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| − | ***Encryption versus Coding
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| − | ===Robotics=== | + | |
| − | *basic analog
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| − | **line follower
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| − | **wall follower
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| − | **Photo-vore/Photo-phobe
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| − | **Tensor Control Systems
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| − | **Analog RC (wire guided)
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| − | *basic digital
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| − | **wall/line follower
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| − | **servo/range sensor/Optical feedback devices
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| − | **IR/Sonar/Mechanical "Senses"
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| − | **logic based actions
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| − | ***Hard Programs (CRC devices, 3D printers etc.)
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| − | *A.I. based Robotics (added for completeness, probably too advanced for age range)
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| − | **Rule Bases
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| − | **Fuzzy Logic
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| − | **Inductive Control (I.E. Power-Hunger)
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| − | **Darwin and other BBD's
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| − | *Control Schemes (added for completeness TX 2B/RX 2B are readily available in cheap toys)
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| − | **Digital RC (TX2B/RX2B)
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| − | **Semi-Autonomous robots
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| − | **UAV's and Autonomous Robots
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| − | **Social Robots,
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| − | **Robots as Agents, Multi-Robot Language and Mapping Strategies
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| − | ===Mechanics===
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| − | *The Fulcrum/Axle
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| − | *The Wheel
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| − | *The Lever
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| − | *The Spring
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| − | *The shaft
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| − | *The spur gear
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| − | *The Rack gear
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| − | *The Worm gear
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| − | *The Pulley
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| − | *The Motor
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| − | *Engines of Different Types as Motors
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| − | ===Welding=== | + | |
| − | *The difference between welding and soldering
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| − | **Ceramics and Syntering as welding
| + | |
| − | ***The Plastic Limit and the Phase change between solid and liquid
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| − | *Metal to Metal Welding
| + | |
| − | **Dissimilar metal concerns
| + | |
| − | **Thermite and aluminum welding
| + | |
| − | **Brasing a case in point
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| − | **Oxy-Fuel cutting and welding
| + | |
| − | **The Stinger and Rod Welding Technique
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| − | **Wire welding
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| − | ***Metal in Gas Welding
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| − | ****CO2
| + | |
| − | ****Argon
| + | |
| − | ****Helium
| + | |
| − | ****Titanium in Gas Welding
| + | |
| − | **Capacitance Welding Techniques (and why not to solder directly on batteries)
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| − | **Powder in Gas, (often laser heated) Welding
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| − | ***Advanced Additive Welding Techniques similar to 3D printing
| + | |
| − | *Plastic to Plastic Welding
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| − | **Plastic cutting with the "Hot Wire" Technique
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| − | **Plastic Welding using Plastic welding rods
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| − | **Plastic Lamination as Welding
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| − | **Concerns with Welding dissimilar plastics
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| − | **3D Printing as a Plastic Welding Technique
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| − | ===Machining=== | + | |
| − | *The Artist Freeing the Art from the Media
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| − | *Shaping things by removing material
| + | |
| − | *Basic Safety around power tools
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| − | *Making Holes with a drill by hand
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| − | *The Brace and Bit, Rotary Drilling becomes practical
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| − | *The Hand Drill and Bits
| + | |
| − | *Constraints on movement, Why the Drill Press is better
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| − | *The Lathe
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| − | **The Pottery Wheel, shaping Mud
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| − | **The early Whip Shaft Lathe
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| − | **Rotary Lathes
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| − | **Steam Powered Lathes
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| − | **Electrical Powered Lathes
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| − | **The Modern Wood Lathe
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| − | **The Modern Metal Lathe
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| − | **CNC Lathes
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| − | **Turret Lathes
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| − | *The Mill, (Turning the Lathe on end)
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| − | **The Router, a Hand-Mill
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| − | **The Router Table, better quality
| + | |
| − | **The Router Jigs
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| − | **The Machining Mill, as Controlled combination of drill press and Router Table
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| − | **The CNC Mini-Mill
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| − | **The CNC Mill
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| − | **CNC Panel Board Milling
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| − | ===Carpentry=== | + | |
| − | *Working with wood
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| − | *Basic Safety around power tools
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| − | *The use of sandpaper
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| − | **Sandpaper Coarseness versus surface roughness
| + | |
| − | **Removing Finishes, and coarser paper to break the finish
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| − | **Advancing from coarse to fine to improve the finish
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| − | **The use of rouge for fine surfaces
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| − | **Power sanders
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| − | ***The Orbital Sander, (and finishing sander)
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| − | ***The Belt Sander
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| − | ***Shaping with the Spindle sander
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| − | ***The hand Disk Sander
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| − | ***The Table Disk/Belt Sander
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| − | *Cutting wood
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| − | **Stress Relief on the blade, Notches and stress when cutting
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| − | **Sharpening versus Honing
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| − | **care of blades
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| − | *The knife
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| − | **Whittling by hand
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| − | **The use of hand chisels
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| − | **Special Care for hand chisels
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| − | **The use of "Hammer Type Chisels"
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| − | **The Hollowground chizel blade and why it exists
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| − | **The Hand Plane, Shaving off thin surface irregularities
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| − | *** Specialized types of hand planes
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| − | **The Powered Hand Plane
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| − | **The Dimensioning Plane
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| − | **The shaper/edger
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| − | *Composite Blades
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| − | **The file as a gang of blades
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| − | ***Coarseness versus surface roughness
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| − | ***Draw Filing to reduce surface roughness
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| − | ***The Rasp, fast removal of material for shaping
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| − | ***The file/Rasp Blade profile and what type of material removal to use it for
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| − | ***Cleaning the file to keep it cutting well
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| − | **Burrs, and Grinding Tools
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| − | ***Using in a Dremel or Router to do detail work
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| − | **Drills, Blade and Shaft Types
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| − | **Drilling by Hand
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| − | **Drilling with a Drill Press
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| − | **Special Types of Drill Bits (Forstner Bits, etc.)
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| − | **The basic set of Router Bits
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| − | ***Profiles
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| − | ***Rabits
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| − | ***Grooves
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| − | ***Pilot type bits
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| − | ***Guides Jigs, and Tables making a hand Router more useable
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| − | **The lathe
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| − | ***Basic Lathe Safety
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| − | ***The tool-rest and Lathe chizel types
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| − | ***Turning speed versus cut-depth/Hardness of wood
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| − | ***Turning bowls etc.
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| − | ***Profile turning with a pantograph and a profile
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| − | **The saw as a linear gang of blades
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| − | **Saw tooth styles
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| − | **The Hand Saw
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| − | ***The crosscut saw
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| − | ***The Rip saw
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| − | ***The coping saw
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| − | ***The Hack Saw
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| − | ***The Miter Saw
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| − | ***Blade sharpening techniques
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| − | ***Long-Lasting carbide Tips on blades
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| − | ***Specialized Saw Blades
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| − | **The Power Saw
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| − | ***The circular saw
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| − | ****The Skill Saw or Hand Circular Saw
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| − | ****The Table saw
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| − | ****The chop-saw, Miter-saw, Compound Miter saw
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| − | ****The Panel Saw
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| − | ***Other types of power saws
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| − | ****The Reciprocating or Saws-all Saw
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| − | ****The Scroll Saw
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| − | ****The Belt Saw
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| − | ****The Gang Saw
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| − | ****The Chipping Saw
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| − | ===Painting and Finishing=== | + | |
| − | *The chemistry of Paint
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| − | **Oil versus Latex
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| − | **Health aspects of new Plastic/Organic paints
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| − | **Tints, Stains, and toxicity
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| − | **Why Lead in paint is discouraged
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| − | *Getting a smooth even layer
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| − | **Using a Brush
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| − | **Using a roller
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| − | **Using a Sprayer/spraybomb
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| − | **Using a Powder coat
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| − | *preparation for painting/staining etc.
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| − | **scuffed but even surfaces, getting the paint to stick
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| − | **Dry, Clean Surfaces
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| − | **Opening the pores of wood etc.
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| − | **Matching the chemistry to the Material being painted
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| − | **Matching the chemistry to the expected environment
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| − | **Masking and covering against spills/overspray
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| − | *The Painting Environment
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| − | ***Ventilation versus Protection from contamination
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| − | ***Paint booths for fine finishes
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| − | ***Curing versus Baking how to harden the paint
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| − | ***The painters Mask, why different masks for different paints
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| − | ***Why White Coveralls?
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| − | *Clear Coats, Varnish, Shellac, etc.
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| − | **Putting on a shine
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| − | **Shellac, and Varnish, getting depth to the shine
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| − | **Clear Coats, and Varathane, a hardy clear surface to the paint/stain
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| − | **Oils and waxes Nourishing the wood, to keep it from drying out
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| − | ===Photography=== | + | |
| − | *high quality pin hole camera
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| − | *The theory of photo-lithography
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| − | *The DarkRoom is it obsolete? Why you might not want to get your film developed by a service
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| − | *Quick-shots versus SLR cameras why look out the lens?
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| − | *Digital versus Film which is better?
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| − | *The theory of Digital Cameras
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| − | *Scanners versus Digital Cameras
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| − | *Image Manipulation, and Quality Control
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| − | *The controls on your camera
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| − | **Fstop
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| − | **Shutter Speed
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| − | **Lens size versus Light/Focus Depth etc.
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| − | **The Zoom, which is better optical zoom or digital zoom
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| − | **Focus versus infinity
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| − | **Macro-Modes
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| − | **Flash versus Fstop/shutterspeed
| + | |
| − | **should I use a filter?
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| − | **Making Movies
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| − | **Making Panaramas
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| − | **Making Time-delay movies
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| − | **High Speed Cameras and slowing down fast events.
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| − | **Hacking your camera
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| − | ===Movie Making=== | + | |
| − | *The script
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| − | *The StoryBoard
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| − | *Do you really need that silly clacker thing?
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| − | *The idea of short-takes, and long editing sessions
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| − | *The Cutting Room Floor (So to speak)
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| − | *Consistency versus long filming periods
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| − | ===Writing=== | + | |
| − | ===CAD/3d Printing===
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| − | *basic 3d design using free google sketchup
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| − | **print 3d model or model object from thingiverse
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| − | *3d scan using kinect
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| − | **possibly print the result of the scanned model, eg your face as a keychain
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