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Toy Inventor’s Notebook: Hack in a Hat

Toy Inventor’s Notebook: Hack in a Hat

Bob Knetzger

By Bob Knetzger

Bob Knetzger

Bob Knetzger (neotoybob@yahoo.com) is an inventor/designer with 30 years of experience making fun stuff.

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Often when pitching a company an idea for a new product, it’s not what you have, it’s what they think you have. That was the case when I presented this “game-in-a-hat” toy idea. My idea: a preschooler-sized hat that uses a motion sensor and sound circuit to play a simple musical game. As the hat […]

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Howtoons Color Racer

Howtoons Color Racer

Saul Griffith

By Saul Griffith

Saul Griffith

DR. SAUL GRIFFITH is founder and principal scientist at Otherlab, an independent R&D lab, where he focuses on engineering solutions for a clean energy, net-zero carbon economy. Occasionally making some pretty cool robots too. Saul got his PhD from MIT, and is a founder or co-founder of makanipower.com, sunfolding.com, voluteinc.com, treau.cool, departmentof.energy, materialcomforts.com, howtoons.com, and more. Saul was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2007.

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Nick Dragotta

By Nick Dragotta

Nick Dragotta

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Make and play this board game based on the primary colors!

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Danger: Burn Things with a Magnifying Glass

Danger: Burn Things with a Magnifying Glass

Gever Tulley

By Gever Tulley

Gever Tulley

Gever founded Tinkering School in 2005 in order to learn how children become competent and to explore the notion that kids can build anything, and through building, learn anything. A self-taught computer scientist with no formal education, Gever’s expertise is really in… thinking. Gever has taught workshops and made presentations to both kids and adults around the world. He has spoken at TED, twice, written articles for Make:, and authored the book Fifty Dangerous Things (you should let your children do).

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Julie Spiegler

By Julie Spiegler

Julie Spiegler

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Harness the awesome power of the sun.

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Unreasonable Rocketeers

Unreasonable Rocketeers

Charles Platt

By Charles Platt

Charles Platt

Charles Platt is a contributing editor to Make magazine, which has published more than 50 of his articles. Six of his books are available from Make: Books

Make: Electronics, an introductory guide, now available in its second edition.

Make: More Electronics, a sequel that greatly extends the scope of the first book.

Encyclopedia of Electronic Components, volumes 1, 2, and 3 (the third written in collaboration with Fredrik Jansson).

Make: Tools, which uses the same teaching techniques as Make: Electronics to explore and explain the use of workshop tools.

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The new space race is maker-made.

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