10 Projects to Make with Dad for Kids Over 10

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June 15th, 2011 14

Or perhaps the Most Useless Machines cause some things never get old, like spending quality time with your Dad.

We could go on pointing out great builds to do together, like the Remote-Controlled Camera Mount, the Invisible Ink Printer , Woven Map Basket, Recycled Kaleidoscope , Label-Etched Glass Bottle, or even the Green Surfboard. If you don’t see a project that fits you and your Dad, head over to Make: Projects, where hundreds more are just waiting to be built. Have a great Father’s Day, and don’t forget to tell Dad how much he means to you.

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14 thoughts on “10 Projects to Make with Dad for Kids Over 10”

Dave Nash says:

June 16th, 2011 at 11:53 am

Please please don’t go into this separate page format, no one wants to see Make end up with slideshows…

Tom Ligman says:

June 16th, 2011 at 1:20 pm

Also, if you absolutely have to break things up into 2 or 3 pages to satisfy your page click quotas or something, could you at least link to the projects and not just name them?
chad says:

June 16th, 2011 at 4:24 pm

After reading through the Make: Projects documentation and noticing the ’embeddable slideshow’ I was curious how they would be used in real-life. I guess that’s the hope of these kind of posts.

Make, we don’t mind scrolling, and I bet the majority of us find it easier than clicking on a tiny, non obvious link.

Xiver says:

June 16th, 2011 at 2:05 pm

This multi-page format is stupid. I clicked on the first couple and there was only one sentence on each page. Is Make Magazine in such bad need of advertising dollars that they feel its ok for their surfers to have a miserable experience? I think that will backfire.
Tim Cocks says:

June 16th, 2011 at 3:23 pm

I clicked on pages 2 and 3. Saw one sentence on each and then closed this article…I was actually genuinely interested in it. But this is presented horribly.

Anonymous says:

June 16th, 2011 at 3:46 pm

This piece is currently experiencing technical difficulties. Each page is supposed to have a Make: Project embedded in it, not just be the intro sentence. We’re looking into it now.

(And in general we’ll only use the slideshow format sparingly. Thanks for the feedback. We’re experimenting with it now.)

Mike Dennis says:

December 9th, 2011 at 3:24 am

This, and the companion article for 10-and-under, still don’t have access to the actual projects…