Make Every Week Begets a Book


About this time last year I set out to make something every week in 2015.

In the end, it was actually “Make Every 1.7 Weeks.” But two exciting things happened along the way:

  • I made many, many more things than I would have otherwise, learning a ton.
  • I was invited to write a book.

The 30 things I built included a cat toy, an electric candle you can blow out and a water monitor that texts live data and lives inside a Gatorade bottle. Here’s the full list:

As for the book, it’s already under way and tentatively called “Family Projects for Smart Objects,” from Maker Media. They’re the folks who produce Make: magazine and the Makerfaires.

The idea is to publish in time for the World Makerfaire in New York October 1 & 2, 2016, with the possible appearance there of both the book and the author(!)

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In the meantime, I’ll be typing away, building some exiting new projects and sharing all of my adventures right here.


Top image by me, at the 2015 World Makerfaire.