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Field notes from the workshop: what we built, what broke, and what we learned.
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Recycling
The unreasonable joy of building badly
Our marble run collapsed four times before it worked. That was the best part, and the part most tutorials edit out.
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7 min read
Kids DIY
Why kids remember what they make
A screen holds attention for minutes. A thing you glued together yourself gets shown to every visitor for a year.
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7 min read
Notebook Making
Our studio is a garage, and that’s the point
People keep asking when we will get a real studio. We keep asking why anyone would trust a workshop that looks like a showroom.
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5 min read
Recycling
A defense of the glue gun
It is not cheating. It is the single greatest morale technology ever handed to a beginner.
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4 min read
Recycling
What 200 marble runs taught us about failure
We read every build report submitted this year. The projects that failed early finished more often than the ones that started perfectly.
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6 min read
Cube Art
The paint we actually use (and the paint we don’t)
Cheap acrylics on cardboard, every time. Here is the shelf test behind that boring answer.
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