Snap Circuits “BRIC: Structures” Kit
Allows Snap Circuits connectors to integrate with LEGOs and other such building bricks.
Allows Snap Circuits connectors to integrate with LEGOs and other such building bricks.
Build and customize a planetary rover and undertake hours of missions inspired by NASA astronauts.
This series of build-it-yourself marble machines helps intoduce children to engineering principles and physics concepts.
A fantastic way to introduce kids to tinkering and maker culture.
Perfect for making paper circuits with kids, and more.
Introduces you to the simple mechanisms and physics that bring karakuri mechanized paper constructions to life, with pull-out pages to make a few of your own.
A suite of "Toy-Con" cardboard peripherals that you construct yourself and then bring to life with the Nintendo Switch game system.
An educational microcomputer that a kid can assemble, which then teaches them STEM and coding concepts via a custom Minecraft adventure.
Free downloadable instructions for designer paper figures — based on pop-culture characters — that you print, cut out, and assemble yourself.
An amazingly clever, 3D-printed sundial that uses precisely-cut holes to display the time in its own shadow, digital-style.
A fun and challenging project in the form of a solar-powered marble machine you assemble yourself.
A set of four different-sized drill bits for extracting stripped/damaged screws.
Mark Frauenfelder—editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools—recently published an awesome book for geeky dads called Maker Dad: Lunch Box Guitars, Antigravity Jars, and 22 Other Incredibly Cool Father-Daughter DIY Projects. As the name suggests, the book contains a bunch of projects intended for fathers and their daughters to have fun building together. These projects teach your kid some important skills (like programming…
Geek Dad is written by engineer, father, nerd, and author of Wired.com's GeekDad weblog, Ken Denmead. With a son of my own due early next year, this book is full of exactly the sort of projects I'm looking forward to doing. Of course, those days are still a few years down the road for me, but that doesn't mean I'm very excited…