DIY.org is an online community for young makers to share their skills and projects, and to be inspired and learn to make new creations. This year at Maker Faire Bay Area, they will be providing the supplies and space for Cardboard Village, a place where kids can collaborate to build their own community using cardboard. If you’re planning to attend Maker Faire, stop by and check out the progress!
The DIY Network shows us how to make a fun corn hole game for those hot summer nights.
Next month’s Maker Faire Bay Area is our biggest event of the year. It’s held at the San Mateo County Event Center. But this past weekend here in Sonoma County, Calif. where MAKE is headquartered, us North Bay folks flocked to the Sonoma County Maker Kids Mini Maker Faire. It was a good day of kid-friendly projects and a warm-up of sorts for the main event to come next. Have a look.
There are a million fun things you can do with a toilet paper roll. Here’s a great idea I haven’t seen before: Make them into superhero cuffs! Check out Rachael Rabbit’s tutorial — if you want to get that fabulous glitter look, you actually need to take precautions so the toilet paper tube retains its shape and doesn’t go all floppy from the glue.
Looking for a simple yet fun kit to get youngsters into making? Check out the Make: SpinBot Kit from the Maker Shed. This kit lets them create a simple, vibrating “robot” that makes unique works of art.
Let neighbor kids know when your little ones are ready for hangouts with this double-sided front porch “let’s play” sign!
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.
