Making Stuff And Doing Things

Author : Kyle Bravo
Publisher : DIY
ISBN 13 : 9781621066477
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Stuff and Doing Things written by Kyle Bravo and published by DIY. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Stuff and Doing Things is probably the most useful book on the planet. It's been called more important than the Bible. It's an indispensable handbook full of basic life skills for the young punk or activist, or for anyone else who's just trying to get stuff done - without having to have loads of money. The book started as a '90s zine with dozens of contributors setting down the most important skills they knew in concise, often hand-written pages. If you want to do it all yourself or do it together, this book has it all. Honestly, you'll never be bored again.

Author : Kyle Bravo
Publisher : Microcosm Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1621065375
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Stuff and Doing Things written by Kyle Bravo and published by Microcosm Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kyle Bravo has assembled a comprehensive book along with dozens of other instructional articles that tell you how to do just about everything. Topics include getting active, direct action, gardening, how to make wine, homeschooling, fixing a toilet, audio phone patch, how to make envelopes, shoe repair, making rubber stamps, how to juggle, composting, DIY toothpaste, getting rid of fruit flies, greywater systems, composting toliets, making hanging and floating tents, saving money at the post office, making posters and stencils, fixing a harmonica, DIY flowerpots, avoiding dangerous household chemicals, preventing ear infections, how women can pee standing up, menstrual massages, and a few pieces for inspiration. I'm sure you can see by now why this is essential.

Author : Curt Gabrielson
Publisher : Maker Media, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1680450344
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tinkering written by Curt Gabrielson and published by Maker Media, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can you consistently pull off hands-on tinkering with kids? How do you deal with questions that you can't answer? How do you know if tinkering kids are learning anything or not? Is there a line between fooling around with real stuff and learning? The idea of learning through tinkering is not so radical. From the dawn of time, whenever humanity has wanted to know more, we have achieved it most effectively by getting our hands dirty and making careful observations of real stuff. Make: Tinkering (Kids Learn by Making Stuff) lets you discover how, why--and even what it is--to tinker and tinker well. Author Curt Gabrielson draws on more than 20 years of experience doing hands-on science to facilitate tinkering: learning science while fooling around with real things. This book shows you how to make: A drum set from plastic bottles, tape, and shrink-wrap Magnetic toys that dance, sway, and amaze Catapults, ball launchers, and table-top basketball A battery-powered magic wand and a steadiness game (don't touch the sides!) Chemical reactions with household items Models of bones and tendons that work like real arms and ankles Spin art machine and a hovercraft from a paper plate! Lifelong learners hungry for their next genuine experience

Author : Tim Manners
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440634610
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relevance written by Tim Manners and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-09-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years studying remarkable companies and speaking to some of the most influential leaders around, Tim Manners has discovered a solution to the marketing woes of many brands. Stop worrying about demographics, fads, and cutting-edge advertising. Instead, focus on relevance. Manners shares how the best of the best create solutions to their customers’ problems and help them live happier lives. You’ll learn how: Levi’s reasserted relevance when it created wardrobe solutions for men. Dunkin’ Donuts stopped trying to mimic the look and feel of Starbucks and found success by delivering a simple, quick cup of joe. Hasbro reinvented board games for today’s time-pressed consumers. Kleenex’s new germ-fighting tissues helped keep the company relevant by turning a useful product into a necessary one. Staples stopped wasting its shoppers’ time with extraneous products. Nintendo’s simple design for the Wii appealed to consumers of all ages and game designers alike, allowing it to outsell its competitors. The path to sustainable growth for your brand begins with designing meaningful solutions and providing them when and where people need them most. Relevance will teach you how to become—and remain—indispensable.

Author : Bernadette Noll
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1118088778
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Make Stuff Together written by Bernadette Noll and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 24 simple projects to create as a family During these uncertain times, families around the country are slowing down, reconnecting, and getting back to basics. One of the best ways for families to share experiences and meaningful time together is through the art of crafting, sewing, and recycling. Make Stuff Together gives you 24 projects to build family connections while being creative and truly enjoying your time together. The authors have uniquely broken down projects into manageable chunks for the shorter attention spans of children?enabling even smaller kids to accomplish bigger projects. Projects promote the slow family movement A fun variety of useful finished pieces and suggestions on where to find materials Brimming with full-color photography Whether you're a mom looking for innovative projects for your kids, or a seasoned sewer and advocate of the slow family movement, Make Stuff Together gives you 24 projects for getting back to basics.

Author : Susan Weinschenk
Publisher : New Riders
ISBN 13 : 0133122352
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Get People to Do Stuff written by Susan Weinschenk and published by New Riders. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all want people to do stuff. Whether you want your customers to buy from you, vendors to give you a good deal, your employees to take more initiative, or your spouse to make dinner—a large amount of everyday is about getting the people around you to do stuff. Instead of using your usual tactics that sometimes work and sometimes don't, what if you could harness the power of psychology and brain science to motivate people to do the stuff you want them to do - even getting people to want to do the stuff you want them to do. In this book you’ll learn the 7 drives that motivate people: The Desire For Mastery, The Need To Belong, The Power of Stories, Carrots and Sticks, Instincts, Habits, and Tricks Of The Mind. For each of the 7 drives behavioral psychologist Dr. Susan Weinschenk describes the research behind each drive, and then offers specific strategies to use. Here’s just a few things you will learn: The more choices people have the more regret they feel about the choice they pick. If you want people to feel less regret then offer them fewer choices. If you are going to use a reward, give the reward continuously at first, and then switch to giving a reward only sometimes. If you want people to act independently, then make a reference to money, BUT if you want people to work with others or help others, then make sure you DON’T refer to money. If you want people to remember something, make sure it is at the beginning or end of your book, presentation, or meeting. Things in the middle are more easily forgotten. If you are using feedback to increase the desire for mastery keep the feedback objective, and don’t include praise.

Author : Rich Gold
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262543796
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plenitude written by Rich Gold and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lessons from and for the creative professions of art, science, design, and engineering: how to live in and with the Plenitude, that dense, knotted ecology of human-made stuff that creates the need for more of itself. We live with a lot of stuff. The average kitchen, for example, is home to stuff galore, and every appliance, every utensil, every thing, is compound—composed of tens, hundreds, even thousands of other things. Although each piece of stuff satisfies some desire, it also creates the need for even more stuff: cereal demands a spoon; a television demands a remote. Rich Gold calls this dense, knotted ecology of human-made stuff the "Plenitude." And in this book—at once cartoon treatise, autobiographical reflection, and practical essay in moral philosophy—he tells us how to understand and live with it. Gold writes about the Plenitude from the seemingly contradictory (but in his view, complementary) perspectives of artist, scientist, designer, and engineer—all professions pursued by him, sometimes simultaneously, in the course of his career. "I have spent my life making more stuff for the Plenitude," he writes, acknowledging that the Plenitude grows not only because it creates a desire for more of itself but also because it is extraordinary and pleasurable to create. Gold illustrates these creative expressions with witty cartoons. He describes "seven patterns of innovation"—including "The Big Kahuna," "Colonization" (which is illustrated by a drawing of "The real history of baseball," beginning with "Play for free in the backyard" and ending with "Pay to play interactive baseball at home"), and "Stuff Desires to Be Better Stuff" (and its corollary, "Technology Desires to Be Product"). Finally, he meditates on the Plenitude itself and its moral contradictions. How can we in good conscience accept the pleasures of creating stuff that only creates the need for more stuff? He quotes a friend: "We should be careful to make the world we actually want to live in."

Author : Jules Pieri
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 1260135861
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How We Make Stuff Now: Turn Ideas into Products That Build Successful Businesses written by Jules Pieri and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2019-04-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This step-by-step DIY guide shows today’s entrepreneurs how to create and launch new products, package and market them to consumers, and build a thriving business. Thanks to high-speed Internet, game-changing technology, and innovative new platforms, individuals with vision and heart can go from idea to marketplace on a shoestring budget. In How We Make Stuff Now, Jules Pieri—cofounder and CEO of The Grommet, a product launch platform that helps innovative products reach a community of millions—takes readers through the entire consumer product creation process, showing how individual Makers, inventors, and entrepreneurs have utilized technology, the Maker Movement, and perseverance to turn ideas for innovative consumer goods into thriving businesses, breaking the rules of traditional retailing in the process. Jules details what goes into each of the steps they take: ideation, education, research, design and documentation, prototyping, funding, manufacturing, packaging, marketing, distribution, logistics, payments, customer service, financial and inventory management, and growth. Using case studies of successful startups, she reveals how entrepreneurs overcome obstacles, solve challenges, and rise above them to deliver innovations. If you’re an aspiring entrepreneur, Maker, or inventor, the first crucial step in your journey to turning your ideas into products that build thriving businesses is learning How We Make Stuff Now.

Author : Ziggy Hanaor
Publisher : Black Dog Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Stuff written by Ziggy Hanaor and published by Black Dog Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crafts.

Author : Therese Willkomm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989326216
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assistive Technology Solutions in Minutes Book III written by Therese Willkomm and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Low cost assistive technology solutions made in minutes from everyday materials