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Father's Day Badge-a-Thon: The Maker

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According to my dad, there's a correct tool for every job. And it's called a hammer.image

 

It's a life lesson that's always stuck with me and has helped me get through a great many difficulties in my days as an engineer, a maker and a DIY desperado. So as we plummet deeper and deeper into our Father's Day Badge-a-Thon rabbit hole, we're now looking at ways that dads can pass along their lifetime of invaluable knowledge and wisdom as their kids blossom into dedicated hammer-wielders themselves.

 

Today's badge asks for thoughts on the new project ideas for parents to do with their kids that could indoctrinate them into the exciting world of electronics, and making.

 

For inspiration, here are a few projects from around element14 that I feel would make particularly father/parent/son/daughter projects.

 

To get today's badge, remember that you first need the previous days' badges, and then...

1) Post your idea for a brand new parental project in the comments, and...

2) Bookmark your favourite project from anywhere on the element14 Community that'd serve this purpose for other parents looking to inspire their kids!

 

You have until 26th June, 2016, to get all the badges, so don't delay!

 

You don't have to bookmark one of these, but for inspiration...

 

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  • My kids are pretty much grown up; one just graduated with a masters degree in political science, the other just graduated with a bachelor's degree in biological science.  However, both have shown some interest in learning more about electronics and in making things, probably because they were exposed to that environment at home for a couple of decades straight.

     

    For my son, I'd like to work on automating his old Jeep Power Wheels car, which I have stored in the garage for 20 years.

    I have some experience developing autonomous robots, and my son used to compete in the FIRST Lego League robotics challenge, so making his old Jeep Power Wheels autonomous would allow for some nice nostalgic father-son time.

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    My daughter is planning to get into a masters degree program in biomedical engineering, so to inspire her, I'd like to work on some sort of cyber-interface, something like 's brain wave appliance controller: Smarter Life.

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  • My kids are pretty much grown up; one just graduated with a masters degree in political science, the other just graduated with a bachelor's degree in biological science.  However, both have shown some interest in learning more about electronics and in making things, probably because they were exposed to that environment at home for a couple of decades straight.

     

    For my son, I'd like to work on automating his old Jeep Power Wheels car, which I have stored in the garage for 20 years.

    I have some experience developing autonomous robots, and my son used to compete in the FIRST Lego League robotics challenge, so making his old Jeep Power Wheels autonomous would allow for some nice nostalgic father-son time.

    image

     

    My daughter is planning to get into a masters degree program in biomedical engineering, so to inspire her, I'd like to work on some sort of cyber-interface, something like 's brain wave appliance controller: Smarter Life.

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