The MakeShift Challenge: Zombie Attack!
It’s a zombie attack! Battle your way through brain-hungry zombies to arrive, bite free, to a secure school two miles away.
Continue ReadingFor the first five years of Make:, we ran a column called “MakeShift,” by Lee David Zlotoff, creator of the iconic TV show MacGyver. As with the show, where science and engineering improvisation were a central theme, each MakeShift installment presented a sticky situation — like a viral outbreak on a plane, how to communicate with the outside world during a high school lockdown, or surviving a zombie attack — and then challenged our readers to submit “makeshift” solutions. We were constantly blown away by the cleverness and intelligence of the responses. People really got into it.
In looking over these columns, we decided that we wanted to an online home as well to share with the Make: readership. In the columns and summary articles, Lee and Make: staffer Bill Lidwell (who edited the challenges) talked about a MacGyver-worthy measure of intelligence that they called MQ (for “MakeShift Quotient”). MQ is one’s ability to use knowledge of science and engineering, combined with some chewing gum and bailing wire, to fashion workable solutions to problems on the fly. We hope these columns will assist in increasing your MQ.
It’s a zombie attack! Battle your way through brain-hungry zombies to arrive, bite free, to a secure school two miles away.
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