The books is focused on teaching girls lifelong skills — like computer programming, musicality, and how to use basic hand tools — as well as how to be creative problem solvers. The book’s twenty-four projects include:
• Drawbot, a lively contraption that draws abstract patterns all by itself
• Ice Cream Sandwich Necklace
• Longboard
• Antigravity Jar
• Silkscreened T-Shirt
• Retro Arcade Video Game
• Host a Podcast
• Lunchbox Guitar
• Kite Video Camera
Above, a video about the Friendstrument, an electronic musical instrument girls can play with friends. Tomorrow, I’ll run the complete step-by-step instructions for building it here on Boing Boing. If you can’t wait that long, you may purchase the entire Maker Dad book with all 24 projects as a Kindle ebook right now for $5.99.
(Thanks to Eric Mittleman for directing and editing the video!)