The author with his repurposed puppet pal.
Photography by Carlos Alejandro
ZIPPY THE RECYCLED MARIONETTE
Build characters from old Zip drives.
By Ian Alejandro
To earn my Showman badge in Cub Scouts, I needed to make some type of puppet. I went to my “invention bin” (a box of things to be repurposed) and found 2 old Zip drives. As I pried them apart and laid out all the parts inside, I realized they would make a cool marionette. And so Zippy was born. Here’s how I did it. You don’t have to use Zip drives, but they work great.
1. Pry the Zip drives ...
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