To this day, my husband still builds things out of K'NEX. Yes, still little bits of plastic, but they encourage spatial reasoning and imaginative creation. Even as adults, we still broke out the case of K'NEX and made some fun ornaments for our 30-gallon goldfish tank. We build robots for cat toys (example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfzixDTLvVU) and fun, practical organizational solutions for cabinets. Kids can do wonders in a sandbox-mode.
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It's not child labor if he's not being paid, right?
WoW on an Acer netbook... oof, that'd be rough.
To this day, my husband still builds things out of K'NEX. Yes, still little bits of plastic, but they encourage spatial reasoning and imaginative creation. Even as adults, we still broke out the case of K'NEX and made some fun ornaments for our 30-gallon goldfish tank. We build robots for cat toys (example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfzixDTLvVU) and fun, practical organizational solutions for cabinets. Kids can do wonders in a sandbox-mode.
...at least he is now that he's dead. Right now he's no-longer alive and teaching math at Yale. Thanks for all those bad-ass fucking fractals! http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2007/09/02/mandelbrot-set-video-2/