Library

Welcome to the IMN Library!

Here you can find a collection of useful resources for makers, makerspaces and maker festival organizers.  Have some you think we should add? Let us know via the form below!  One of the things missing here, that would be really helpful, is an independent maker festival guide.  We’ve started putting one together, but if you’d like to help, please let us know that, too!

Quick Links

For All Makers
For Young Makers/Making in Education
Competitions
For Makerspaces
Useful Articles and Talks
Publications

For All Makers

• 123D Circuits
• 3D Printer Comparison Shopping tool
• 3Ders.org
• Arduino Wiki
• Arduino Playground
• CodeChef
• DIY Book Scanning
• Engineering Toolbox
• Fab Academy
• Homesteaders Free Library
• How to Get What You Want – DIY Wearable Technology
• How to Start a Tool Lending Library
• Instructables
• Local Motors – open source automotive
• Lifehack Lessons – for Makers of a better Life
• Mompact – Moms supporting moms in business
• RepRap Wiki 
• SearchCode 
• SkillShare
• Soldering is Easy – a Graphic Guide (PDF)
• Thingiverse – digital design library

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For Young Makers/Making in Education

• Black Girls Code
• CodeSpells
• Design *Make *Play* Growing the Next Generation of Science Innovators (PDF)
• DIY.org
• GadgitKids  – put your tech knowledge to work!
• Innovation, Education and the Maker Movement (PDF)
• Maker Kids
• Maker Education Initiative
• The Maker Mom
• MakeSchools

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Competitions

• 3D Printing Events & Contests
• Challenge.gov
• ChallengePost
• CodeChef -competitions
• Design Competitions
• Inventor Awards & Competitions

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For Makerspaces

• Creating Communities Through Libraries and Makerspaces
• EveryLibrary
• Founding a Hackerspace (PDF)
• GEMSI – Global Entrepreneurship and Maker Space Initiative
• Grizzly Shop Planner –  online workshop planning tool
• Hackerspace Floorplans
• Hackerspace Design Patterns
• Hacklabs and Hackerspaces: Tracing Two Geneologies
• Hackerspaces Wiki
• How to Start a Hackerspace 
• Makerspace
• Makerspace Playbook (PDF)
• Makerspace Resources from Renovated Learning
• Makerspaces on Scoop.IT
• Makerspaces and the Participatory Library (Facebook Group)
• Maker Librarian
• Makers Library Network (UK)
• MakerTech Resources
• Mt. Elliott Makerspace How-To Resources
• School Factory
• Make it at your Library

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Useful Articles & Talks

• Jeff Sturges – Strengthening Communities with Makerspaces
• James Carlson – Bucketworks
• Building a Makerspace inside a Library

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Publications

• Artists & Makers Magazine
• DIY Lifestyle
• Electronics Maker
• Family Handyman
• From Scratch
• Inventors Digest
• Making 
• Making It Magazine
• Make
• Mother Earth News
• Nuts & Volts
• Popular Mechanics

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Use the form below to add your recommendations to the library!