“Letters, we get letters…”

Yesterday, our fantabulous Director of Retail Marketing, Heather Harmon Cochran, sent the following email to the internal Maker Media mailing list. I thought I’d share it with you all. (The images above are of the Dalek plushies referred to in the letter.)

To: Maker Media
Re: I love our customers

During the Christmas season, the Deluxe Electronics kit sold out really quickly, so a couple of people were backordered. Anyway, I wrote to them to let them know and got into this charming conversation with a guy who wanted to buy the toolkit with Make: Electronics for his daughter for Christmas. I was thinking she was maybe 12; turns out she’s 24 and they do projects together all the time. (He’s an EE, and she’s coming to electronics from the craft side.)

For any of you Doctor Who fans, she knitted a TARDIS as a present to her boyfriend and she and her dad equipped it with LEDs. Then they also worked on a Dalek. Apparently, it responds to hugs.

I can’t wait to see what they do with Make: Electronics!

In the Maker Shed:


Make: Electronics
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