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Set Up Your Laboratory
Fill a box full of premium quality junk so you'll have the proper stuff for building. Check out the Stock Room for parts, tools and supplies. Build a machine that greets visitors. Make a brainstorm bonnet and decorate your lab jacket. Then hang a "shingle" on your door so everyone will know you're open for business. |
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Remote Control Goblins
Did your mom ever tell you not to play with your food? You'll need a good collection of funny-looking fruits and veggies, acorns, sea shells, craft supplies and premium quality junk. Then you'll need to dream up some jokes and cartoon story lines. Finally, you've got to make your critter come to life and act out your storyline using a remote control device! |
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Mechanical Garden
This project was initiated at MIT for a workshop at the Smithsonian Museum. Simulate the sounds and motions of plants and animals in an exotic garden. |
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Bionic Boozer
Simulate what happens in your body when you get drunk. This is a relatively complex mechanical simulation of the circulatory, digestive and nervous systems. It was developed by Dr. Kim at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and 40 juniors at the Greater Lawrence Technical School. |
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Pirates' Cove
Build-It-Yourself is recruiting a crew of scallywags and misfits to build a fleet of pirate boats that will search the seas for fat bankers who have too much money! "Avast ya bloody, nat brain, pigeon gut, lying weasel, double talking politician! Yer money or yer life." |
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Robots
that Earn Money
Build-It-Yourself is looking for some hot shot inventors to fix the global economy. Your mission is to design a machine that creates value, entertains, offers a service, puts people to work, and pays its inventors handsomely! Max made $27.25 in one day from his candy machine. |
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Political
Campaign
Do politicians make you say, "Arrrrrrrrg!#$?" Your mission is to design a robot that knows how to make voters happy and can win an election for President of the Wild Things! |
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Time Machines
The world needs an invention that wakes one up in a civilized way. It could tickle you, tell you the joke of the day, play a Hip Hop tune and finally, dump a cup of cold water on you. |
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Friendly Dragons
You can't judge a dragon by its scales! Your mission is to design, build and present a dragon that dispels all prejudices against dragons. |
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Trucks
Messy "no-gooders" are mucking up our earth by creating mountains of yucky garbage. Your mission is to build a fleet of trucks. to help haul away the mess. |