Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred
Seriously Geeky Stuff to Make with Your Kids
(Sprache: Englisch)
Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred is packed with fun craft and toy-making projects for geeks on a budget. Inside, you ll find illustrated instructions for 24 quirky playthings. Part I: Kid Stuff contains child-friendly projects like the Lock-N-Latch Treasure Chest...
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Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred is packed with fun craft and toy-making projects for geeks on a budget. Inside, you ll find illustrated instructions for 24 quirky playthings. Part I: Kid Stuff contains child-friendly projects like the Lock-N-Latch Treasure Chest and a PVC TeePee; Part II: The Electro-Skiffle Band is devoted to homemade musical instruments; and Part III: The Locomotivated showcases moving toys, like a muzzleloader that shoots marshmallows and a steam-powered milk-carton boat.Each project costs just $10 or less to make and is suitable for anyone, regardless of experience level. As you build, you ll learn useful sewing and carpentry skills, and the appendix offers a primer on electronics and soldering.
You (and your kids) will have hours of fun making projects like:
A simple electric guitar
An oversized joy buzzer that (safely) administers a 100-volt jolt
Cool, mess-free, screen-printed T-shirts
Kites made from FedEx envelopes
Booming Thunderdrums made from salvaged x-ray film
Classic board games like Go, Tafl, and Shut-the-Box
Whether you re a mom or dad in search of a rainy day activity, a Scout leader looking to educate and entertain your troop, or just a DIY weekend warrior, the projects in Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred will inspire and amuse you. Now, roll up your sleeves and make!
Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred is a geeky toy-making and craft book, stuffed with projects like sewing a stuffed sock squid, building a steam-powered milk-carton boat, soldering an oversized joy buzzer, and crafting working boomerangs. Readers create board games, musical instruments, and cool toys that move. The book assumes no prior knowledge of skills like carpentry, sewing, and soldering, and each project is explained from the ground up. Primers on topics like basic electronics help readers master foundational techniques so that anyone, regardless of their experience or skill level, can pick up this book and successfully build the projects. Projects are suitable for a wide range of builders and are all cheap, or even free, to build-best of all, once each project is built, readers have something totally sweet. Every project includes tips, tricks, and technical data that will help readers expand and modify the projects, or craft something totally new.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred “
Part 1: Kid StuffProject 1: Lock-n-Latch Treasure Chest
Project 2: Switchbox: A Soldering Project for Greenhorns
Project 3: The Sock Squid
Project 4: The PVC Teepee
Project 5: Cheap Mesh Screen Printing
Project 6: Shut-the-Box: A Pirate Dicing Game
Project 7: The Ticklebox: Jolt Your Friends!
Project 8: Small-board Go/Tafl
Part 2: The Electro-Skiffle Band
Project 9: X-Ray Talking Drums
Project 10: Thunderdrums
Project 11: Electro-Didgeridoo
Project 12: The Dirt-Cheap Amplifier
Project 13: The $10 Electric Guitar
Project 14: Dirt-Cheap Boutique Effects: The Spring Reverb
Project 15: Dirt-Cheap Boutique Effects: The Blinkie Tremelo
Project 16: Dirt-Cheap Boutique Effects: The Two-Transistor Fuzztone
Project 17: Cigar-Box Synthesizer
Part 3: Locomotivated
Project 18: Cardboard Boomerangs
Project 19: Pop Can Flier
Project 20: Quick-n-Easy Water Rockets
Project 21: Putt-putt Steamboat
Project 22: Jitterbug: Your First Robot
Project 23: FedEx Kites
Project 24: Marshmallow Muzzleloader
Appendix: Electronics and Soldering
Autoren-Porträt von David Erik Nelson
David Erik Nelson is a freelance writer and former high school teacher. His fiction has been nominated for a Nebula award and has appeared in Asimov's, The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and the forthcoming Steampunk Reloaded anthology. He developed the projects in this book at an alternative school with plenty of feedback from his students. He is a contributor to the "Ask the Giant Squid" advice column at Poor Mojo's Almanac(k), a weekly online literary journal.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: David Erik Nelson
- 2010, 360 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 17,9 x 23,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: No Starch Press
- ISBN-10: 1593272596
- ISBN-13: 9781593272593
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.2010
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"Nelson aims to make each project in Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred an opportunity to develop a new skill that you could apply to other pursuits. Sewing, sawing, silk screen printing, and soldering: Nelson somehow manages to make them all doable."The Boston Globe
"Former high-school teacher David Erik Nelson serves up a helping of fun."
Get Crafty, Good Housekeeping
"If you want to spend 2013 with practical hands-on learning experiences, this is is a treasure trove of ideas. Better yet, they're all cheap ideas that you can do without buying a gigantic robotics kit or huge machinery, and there s enough room to build on the ideas for new inspiration."
Marziah Karch, Wired.com's GeekMom
"Do-it-yourselfers and other craftspeople who would like to introduce children (their own or borrowed) to the pleasure of using tools and creating things will find a lot to keep them busy within the pages of Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred."
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