Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 41: Tinkering Toys

by Mark Frauenfelder (Editor)

Overview

A whole issue devoted to toys for makers! Toys are big players in the maker world. From educational (STEM/STEAM) to robotics and science, toys provide stimulation, simulation, and prototyping. Make: Volume 41 highlights the latest games and gadgets that have come from the maker community, and provides hands-on inspiration for making your own tech-infused toys.

In the Tinkering Toys issue:

• Build a Mobile Sandbox Excavator
• Going Pro: How to Make Your Toy a Reality
• Arduino and littleBits Team Up
• Teach Kids to Program with Robots
• Retro-Renaissance: A roundup of perennial toy favorites (Erector Set, Tinkertoys, and more)
• Nerf Sentry Gun
• Sound-Powered Drawbot

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781457183843
Publisher:	Make Community, LLC
Publication date:	09/21/2014
Pages:	116
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 10.60(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Mark Frauenfelder is the founding editor of the world’s most popular blog, BoingBoing.net, as well as the editor-in-chief of the hit technology magazine Make. Formerly an editor at Wired and a technology columnist for Playboy, he is frequently interviewed for television, radio, and print, including MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and Business Week.