Introduction

Makeybotwelcome.eps In my many years of designing and inventing toys, I’ve learned the most just by making. I was always eager to get started on a given project and make my own discoveries. If I hit a setback then I’d get help as needed. I hope you’ll take the same approach with the material in this book. Let the designs and plans serve as a starting point and an inspiration to what you want to make.

A couple of the projects are what I call meta-projects: projects that you first build and then use to make other projects. Make the Kitchen Floor Vacuum Former, and then use it to mold plastic parts for other projects. Same for the Foam Cutter and E-Z-Make ...

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