Geek Dad: Awesomely Geeky Projects and Activities for Dads and Kids to Share (37 page)

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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 Arduino board and BlinkM unit used for the project come from
www.makershed.com
.

Ice Cubes Fit for a Greek

MoldRite is available from the maker’s Web site,
www.artmolds.com/
, or on
www.Amazon.com
.

Exploding Drink Practical Joke

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.

Appendix B

RPG Character Sheet