November 2008
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
8h 32m
English
Tales of hardware stores, wind generators, and pine derby cars.
My son and I were in our local independent hardware store, Jackson’s Hardware in San Rafael, Calif., shopping for parts for the compressed air rocket (which is fantastic!) [Volume 15, page 102, “Compressed Air Rocket”]. There was another father/son combo in the store at the same time buying parts for the rocket. I happened to speak to the store manager and told him that there was another party buying the exact same stuff for their rocket project. He had not heard of MAKE but said, “We should carry that magazine.” I told him that if a project was popular he could even ...
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