Some of my favorite doodads are of my own invention.
My Wine Door |
Check this out: I built a baby-proof door to the wine rack using PVC and a carabiner. Oh, how I love carabiners! I guess that hole’s not exactly straight or anything, but it’s in the right place!
So I thought I was pretty slick until I got my first copy of Make magazine today, a Father’s Day present. Now I pretty much feel like a useless lump.
The issue has an article on how to “build your own microcontroller-driven sound and light device to obtain altered states of consciousness.” Pinouts and solder figure heavily. Um. What?
Another is subtitled
“Turn a Hot Wheels toy into a versatile radar gun.”
Just how versatile is a radar gun gonna be? And maybe I’d prefer the Hot Wheels car, anyway.
I’m actually enjoying Make, the same way that I like National Geographic: it’s aspirational. I see adventurous photographers in, oh, say, an active volcano crater on a far-off island inhabited by venomous lightning toads and I think, “I could do that. I just choose not to.” I’d also have to be about 10 steps cooler and able to sport a three-day growth without getting horrible acne. But apart from that — that could totally be me.
My Flippable Magnet Signs |
Make is like that, except substitute dangerous nature photography for disassembling your DVD burner to get the cool laser.
Of course, I can only read magazines in the short breaks I take from pasting magnets together to make informational signs.
Much more my speed.
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Snort! Love the inventions! You’re a regular Thomas Edison compared to my husband (aka Captain Destructo)