Ken Denmead - The Geek Dads Guide to Weekend Fun: Cool Hacks, Cutting-Edge Games, and More Awesome Projects for the Whole Family

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This book is packed with delightfully fun projects for a rainy day or romping in the sun. The ratio of building and playing is just right.

Chris Anderson

Praise for
Geek Dad:

Includes scores of illustrated projects that a parent and child can do together, using many materials that barely existed a few years ago ... Stand back and watch the fun ensue.

The New York Times

These are truly fun, inspired, and even educational projects you can do with your kids.

Wired

There are projects that require computer skills or some knowledge of electronics; mostly, though, they require inquisitiveness and imagination ... The bottom linejust as it was with our fathers and grandfathersis doing something with your kids that is fun and interesting for all parties.

Chicago Tribune

Projects for science enthusiasts of all ages.

NPR Science Friday

Call it Revenge of the Nerds V.... A book that embraces geek culture.

San Francisco Chronicle

A how-to guide that includes nighttime kite flying, electronic origami, and cyborg jack-o-lanterns.

USA Today gift guide

A great book ... This is fun you can have with your kids, with your coworkers, with your spouse, and your friends.

Ars Technica.com

[Geek Dad features] dozens of geek-friendly activities and rainy-day projects for parents (not just dads, we should note) and kids to enjoy, from creating your own comic strips to building a working lamp out of CDs and LEGO bricks. Pick it up in time for Fathers Day, and be sure to let Dad know he has to share.

Babble. com

Read this crafty book for ideas to share your love of science, technology, gadgetry, and MacGyver.... Soon, together, you can rule the galaxy as father and son. Mwahaha.

Boston.com

The book provides an easy gateway to spending purposeful time with your kids and sharing experiences that theyll never forget, all in the spirit of tech-savvy DIY. Now thats an idea to geek out about.

Gear Patrol

I think many geek dads (and okay, geek moms, too) will appreciate the hands-on approach that fills the void that kids just dont get today in school, especially in the American culture of teach to the test.

Geek Cowboy

Learn to create all kinds of great geeky stuff and fun with your offspring, including the ultimate in summer funa super SlipN Slide.

Geeky Reader

What a fun, educational but not in a boring way, book!

Megans Musings

Full of all kinds of cool projects you can do with your kids, the book is a must-have for any dad (hint: perfect Fathers Day gift!) who loves to get geeky with the little ones.

Mental Floss

Craft projects to be shared by kids and techie dads are collected by the author of the GeekDad blog on Wired.com. The best ideas involve the making of a comic strip out of LEGOs and flying a light-rigged kite at night.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A compendium of fun and geeky projects for kids to do with their parents.

MAKEzine

An easy to read, adroitly written craft book.

Neatorama

I would encourage any adult with latent geeklike tendencies to acquire this tome to realize their full potential.

Small Town Living.com

A perfect manual for sharing your geekiness with the next generation.

Thats Bad Ass.com

Denmeads subcategories for each projectconcept, cost, difficulty, duration, and reusabilityhelp readers easily navigate the book to find items they want to make that match their budgets, skill levels, etc.

Urban Baby.com

Special Thanks

Of course, my specialest (what, I know its not a word!) thanks go to my wife, Robin, and my sons, Eli and Quinn, who continue to support and enjoy the marvelous ride that Geek Dad has become. And to my parents, Walt and Ellen, my in-laws, Bob and Fran, and my grandmother Charlotte.

Huge thanks go out to each of the folks who sent me project ideas to include in this book. This second book had to come together in a much shorter time frame than the first, and though I wrote or adapted everything you read here, I wouldnt have made it without the wonderful ideas offered up by the awesome and geeky people whose names youll see peppered throughout.

I continue to be enormously grateful to Megan Thompson at LJK Literary and Jud Laghi at The Laghi Agency for getting this machine running and keeping it on course. And to Lucia Watson, Miriam Rich, and Anne Kosmoski at Gotham/Penguin for helping make Geek Dad such a huge success.

And special nods go to Barbara, Al, and Aaron at McIvers Ace Hardware (Ill always say it MacGyver!) in Fremont, California, who helped a ton with supplies for this book, as well as Paula and Pam at Entourage for being such huge fans.

And lastly to the Saturday morning bowling league parents at Cloverleaf Family Bowl in Fremont, California: Darren and Melisa, Terry and Karen, and Jake and Trav. Our friends and colleagues in this business we call parenthood.

Introduction

In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faintheartedfor those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of thingssome celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

Geeks like to make things. Indeed, the drive to create is an intrinsic geeky quality (right up there with loving genre fiction and drinking too much Mountain Dew). And while many geeks may not think of themselves as creative in an artistic sense, most geeky pursuitsfrom rolling up a new D&D character to assembling the LEGO Star Wars Death Star kit (you know, the one with all the cool minifigures)are acts of creation.

If you are a geek, this creativity comes out in your passion to build things, modify things, or take them apart and put them back together again with new features its designers never dreamed of. And if you are a geek, you have a strong desire to share with your kids this love and imaginative way of looking at the world. But as a parent, you know that passing on anything to our kids (short of male-pattern baldness) can be a tricky proposition.

The challenge is, of course, that because they are kids, they will be suspicious of doing anything you think is cool. More often than not when Dad or Mom says, Hey, try this thing I loveits cool, and youll really like it! what kids really hear is Blah blah blah I want you to do this really lame grown-up thing because it will make me happy to see you bored to death! But, you know, imagine they hear it in that waah-wahh voice all the adults in the Snoopy cartoons spoke with. So, to really get through to them, whats required is something like reverse psychology, but without all the passive-aggressiveness. You need to let them discover on their own how cool it is to be a geek. My example is this:

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