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Teaching Kids Engineering By Building Cartoon Tech (hackaday.com)
szczys writes: If you're struggling to get your kids interested in electronics or other types of engineering, this is the way. Start young and focus on something they're already fascinated with. The two brothers in this article are really into the PBS cartoon Wild Kratts. There's a handheld communications device called a Creaturepod on the show. With the help of mom and dad the family built a working version of the fictional hardware. Of course having Joe Grand, a well-known professional computer engineer, as the patriarch was key in this story. But the roadmap is there for this to be replicated.
Not!! First post!!!
A good way to get kids interested in tech and building
That was decent. Cam with big nuts for the shaft size.
Replacing their heads with a skull? This is weird. If they didn't agree to be photographed they shouldn't have been photographed at all.
Technology is making everyone neurotic, I vote for NOT making people more crazy than they are.
engineer daddy made a gadget for his two little kids.
Why isn't theodp and the other anti-education zealots against this? Obviously these people are only doing it to flood the market with 14 year old engineers who will take our jerbs!
Or just let them be kids and give them exposure to a lot of things and let them decide what they're interested in instead of trying to force them down a particular path. There are plenty of avenues of success (both emotional and financial) that don't involve engineering or electronics.
"Growing old is inevitable; growing up is optional."
Why does every kid need to be an engineer? It makes no sense.
This is nothing more than blog spam written by the wife of the "engineer" in question. So he built a prototype of something based off a cartoon, doesn't seem any more impressive than that.
This sounds like great family time together. Kids working with their parents on any project, be it gardening, making same kind of art work, working on the car, whatever, is how children should spend a lot of their time. Far better than plopping them in front of a TV or game console.
I can't stand this kind of advice. Here are the problems:
What if I missed the boat on starting young?
If I'm starting young, how do I know what fascinates them? (at some point everything is fascinating to a child, including their own feces)
Can we stop giving this kind of useless advice to people? It doesn't add anything to the story anyway.
Kinda beats the crap out of a "clock"
KSP also teaches how to manage project, solve problems, etc.
They have a regular version as well as one which has been customized for teachers.