Fun Skill Patches Offered by Adafruit

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By Mark Frauenfelder
Posted 2012/05/07 @ 5:30 pm
Category Kids & Family

Phil Torrone of Adafruit sent me a bag full of maker skill patches. When my 9-year-old daughter came home from school today, her eyes popped out like a Tex Avery wolf. I told her she could have them all, but she has to earn them! I’ll work with her to help her earn the LED patch first.

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12 Responses to Fun Skill Patches Offered by Adafruit

mpechner on May 7th, 2012 at 5:48 pm said:

You might have to teach her to make bread or yogurt to earn the beer brewing badge. Unfortunately depending on where you live, having her showoff the brewmaster badge might cause issues.

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- johngineer on May 7th, 2012 at 5:51 pm said:
  
  How could a mug of root beer ’cause issues’?
  
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  mpechner on May 7th, 2012 at 5:54 pm said:
  
  That is a badge for brewing beer.
  
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  johngineer on May 7th, 2012 at 5:58 pm said:
  
  It’s just a general brewing badge. It could be award to anything from ale to soy sauce.
  
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  mpechner on May 7th, 2012 at 6:02 pm said:
  
  And as I suggested, bread or yogurt. Still experimentation with yeast. Lets get Phil to turn this badge into a little yeast.
- David Rysdam on May 8th, 2012 at 5:05 am said:
  
  Why can’t children brew beer? Why can’t children even *drink* beer, at home and with their parents?
  
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chuck on May 7th, 2012 at 6:29 pm said:

OMG is that a yellow ‘get your fingers cut off’ badge? Cause I qualify.

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- rocketguy1701 on May 7th, 2012 at 6:52 pm said:
  
  Only if you did it with a waterjet, the usual table saw method won’t count…
  
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rocketguy1701 on May 7th, 2012 at 6:55 pm said:

So I qualify for 22 of these, with two more soon, not deliberate or anything, just happened. Guess that means I’m a true geek, but I’m taking Simon Pegg’s view on that….

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Brandi on May 7th, 2012 at 6:59 pm said:

I was looking at the Adafruit site itself and rather like the solar power(ed) badge! Did you happen to get one of those too?

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Daniel Kim on May 8th, 2012 at 7:23 am said:

Aah! I am a black belt in Dumpster Diving!

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Colecoman1982 on May 8th, 2012 at 9:15 am said:

Don’t get me wrong, I love Adafruit, but when it comes to patches I’ve always been more of a fan of the Order of the Science Scouts: http://www.scq.ubc.ca/sciencescouts/ . I’ve always enjoyed the wry sense of humor in the individual requirements for earning each badge.

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