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Authors: Ken Denmead,Chris Anderson
Tags: #General, #Family & Relationships, #Games, #Science, #Activities, #Boys, #Experiments & Projects, #Fathers and Sons, #Parenting, #Handicraft for Boys, #Fatherhood, #Crafts & Hobbies, #Amusements
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Cool LEGO Lighting from Repurposed Parts
The original DP & Mentos guys have a Web site at
www.eepybird.com
, where they sell specialty kits for getting really cool geyser effects like they do in their live shows.
Afterword: Pneumatic Wiffle Ball Cannon—Failure as a Project
Someone succeeded at making a pneumatic baseball cannon here:
www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-build-a-pneumatic-tennis-ball-cannon
.
MythBusters
’s Adam Savage gave a great talk on failure at the 2009 Maker Faire, which you can watch at
http://fora.tv/2009/05/30/MythBuster_Adam_Savages_Colossal_Failures
. I was in the next building over at the time.
Ice Cubes Fit for a Greek
The Arduino board and BlinkM unit used for the project come fromExploding Drink Practical Joke
MoldRite is available from the maker’s Web site,The original DP & Mentos guys have a Web site atwww.eepybird.com
, where they sell specialty kits for getting really cool geyser effects like they do in their live shows.
Someone succeeded at making a pneumatic baseball cannon here:www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-build-a-pneumatic-tennis-ball-cannon
.
MythBusters’s Adam Savage gave a great talk on failure at the 2009 Maker Faire, which you can watch at
http://fora.tv/2009/05/30/MythBuster_Adam_Savages_Colossal_Failures
. I was in the next building over at the time.
Appendix B
RPG Character Sheet
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Appendix C
Projects Listed by Rank
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