Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 05

Make Magazine and their website is the ground floor entrance to an ever-growing tower of practical solutions to problems of various levels of complexity. For a parent and child, every issue has projects and activities that will foster creative thinking, problem solving, and bring families closer together at a time when TV and video games tend to generate zoned out indifference to one another. Make is a modern resurgance of the DIY culture which spawned such bits of Americana ranging from the Soapbox racer to computers built in a garage. My example: From an article that explains how to spend $6 building your own "steadycam" that would likely cost you hundreds, if not thousands, when purchased off the shelf. I adapted the design to handle one, two, or four cameras for stereoscopic projects as well as hold my Tablet PC which acts as a voice activated remote control.