How-To: Front Porch “Let’s Play” Sign
Let neighbor kids know when your little ones are ready for hangouts with this double-sided front porch “let’s play” sign!
Kids & Family
Introducing the FuzzBot
Twelve-year-old Maker Quin already has a company of his own–Qtechknow. He founded a hackerspace in his garage on California’s Central Coast. He helps teach Arduino classes for kids and adults. And he developed the “gas cap” a baseball hat that detects human methane emissions. (What 12-year-old woulnd’t want that?) And now he’s created the FuzzBot, a cool little robot that not only turns on a dime to avoid obstacles, it helps his mom out by dragging a dust cloth as it makes its rounds.
Robot Puppet Party at Maker Faire
The Hello World Program would like to invite you to a Robot Puppet Party at the Maker Faire Bay Area next month. Hello World has been running for about a year, building a library of video tutorials on a variety of open source tech topics, narrated by handmade puppets. Guido the Python teaches the Python programming language, of course, while the robot Unique ID discusses robotics, circuitry and the basics of object-oriented programming. Currently under construction is a new fox puppet who will be in charge of HTML tutorials.
Last 2013 Events for Bay Area Young Makers
Over the next two weekends we have the final set of events in our series of regional Young Maker/Open Makes in the San Francisco Bay Area leading up to Maker Faire Bay Area. At last, this month the two public events are on different Saturdays, so you can go to both! Each event offers a range of activities that starts at 10am and ends with an inspiring “meet-the-makers” panel discussion.
Fossil Cookies Made Using Plastic Bug Toys
If you have a budding paleontologist in your house, bake him or her a batch of fossil cookies (recipe on Martha Stewart’s website) for a special treat. I love how the simple act of pressing a plastic insect toy into the top of a sugar cookie transforms it into something so much more interesting. These would be a hit at a bug-loving kid’s birthday party.
Kid’s Toy Excavator
Our old pal, maker extraordinaire Craig Smith is back! And he brought a cool working bucket-loader toy with him.
Mini Egg Crate Garden
BLDG 25 has a wonderful way to create a fresh garden of herbs or flowers no matter how small your space is by upcycling an old egg create.
