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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 36
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 36

by Mark Frauenfelder
October 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
160 pages
6h 58m
English
Make: Community
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Invented & drawn by Bob Knetzger

Toy Inventor’s Notebook

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“Old School” Inventing

On a recent family trip, I was asked to help out on a quick DIY project. My sister-in-law Carole was making a combination blackboard/bulletin board from some wooden picture frame material and a piece of ¼" smooth plywood for the back panel.

She painted one half of the panel with chalkboard paint. Just brush it to get an “old school” chalkboard surface — works great! She wanted some help with the next step; I attached pieces of cork sheet with contact cement for the bulletin board side.

The last detail was trickier: How to protect the exposed tender edge of the cork? ...

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