Maker Journal #5 – Visit to UMaine Makerspace
For my fifth Maker Journal, I chose to visit the University of Maine’s Hackerspace and participate in two free workshops; Introduction to Arduino and Introduction to Raspberry Pi . My goal with selecting this technology is to update my toolbox with more modern toolsets and to consider as part of the Maker Journal how this tackles one of the four course questions; “ How might we design learning to embrace principles of computational thinking?” Overview - Makerspace Event Visit " A place for collaboration and exploration of technology. " (University of Maine), this pretty much sums up the UMaine Hackerspace! A space where the classroom is very much student centered. Where students encourage, and teach other students. The lab we used for the workshops were up and ready to go before we arrived. In addition to the instructors, who were also UMaine students, there were work study students eager to help and/or trouble shoot technical issues....