Make: Simple Paper Inventions

✍ Scribed by Ceceri, Kathy

• Publisher: Make Community, LLC; O'Reilly Media
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 130
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Paper is incredible stuff. It's easy to cut, but incredibly strong. It's disposable, but can last for centuries. It can stand as stiff as a board, pop up like a spring, or float like a leaf. And its invention changed the world forever.

Perfect for kids, parents, and educators, Paper Inventions is a project-based book with full color illustrations, step-by-step instructions, supply lists, and templates that allow you to follow along with the book or devise something entirely new. Each chapter features new projects that will challenge and intrigue everyone, from beginning to experienced Makers.

In this book, you'll learn to make:


A light-up paper cat that shows how switches and sensors work
An action origami robot worm
Edible rice paper perfect for secret messages
A space rover that moves thanks to paper machinery
A paper generator that creates electricity when you tap or rub it
Heat-activated paper models that fold themselves
A geodesic dome big enough to crawl into--from newspaper!

✦ Table of Contents

Copyright......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 9
How to Contact Us......Page 10
Paper......Page 11
Electronics......Page 12
Extras You May Find Helpful......Page 13
The Invention of Paper......Page 15
The Science of Papermaking......Page 16
Materials......Page 17
Materials......Page 20
How to Turn Two Dimensions into Three......Page 22
Materials:......Page 23
Atoms and Charged Particles......Page 29
Electricity and Circuits......Page 30
How to Create a Paper Circuit......Page 31
Materials:......Page 32
More About Circuits: Adding Switches and Multiple LEDs......Page 33
Materials:......Page 34
Paper Sensors and Special Effects......Page 35
Materials:......Page 37
Paper Generators......Page 39
Version 1: Rubbing Generator......Page 40
Version 2: Tapping Generator......Page 41
Paper Under Pressure......Page 45
Building with Shapes......Page 46
Project: Make a Tabletop Tetrahedron......Page 47
Materials:......Page 48
Materials......Page 50
Paper Machines......Page 53
Materials......Page 55
Project: Build a Paper Space Rover Automaton......Page 63
Paper as an Art Material......Page 67
Materials......Page 68
Materials......Page 72
Materials......Page 74
Materials......Page 77
Paper Fractals......Page 85
Materials......Page 87
Materials......Page 89
Materials......Page 95
Materials......Page 97
Materials......Page 99
Tips for Copying or Drawing Your Own Templates......Page 107
Self-Folding Paper Model Templates......Page 108
Appendix B. Paper Tech Templates......Page 111
Appendix C. Cam Sampler......Page 117
Appendix D. Space Rover......Page 121
Appendix E. Mobius Strip Results......Page 125
Index......Page 127
About the Author......Page 130

✦ Subjects

Nonfiction;Art;Crafts