The Geek Dad's Guide to Weekend Fun: Cool Hacks, Cutting-Edge Games, and More Awesome Projects for the Whole Family by Ken Denmead
Review by Chris Singer
About the author:
Ken Denmead is the editor of Geek Dad, a blog on Wired magazine's website. A professional civil engineer, he lives near San Francisco with his two sons, who are both geeks in training.
About the book:
Ken Denmead struck a chord with parents and kids across America with his GeekDad blog on Wired.com, which receives more than one million page views per month. His debut book, Geek Dad, was on bestseller lists and in its seventh printing just two months after hitting store shelves. With The Geek Dad's Guide to Weekend Fun, he keeps the nerdtastic novelties coming, with projects that teach readers how to:
•Build homemade robots from scratch
•Write and direct simple stop-motion movies
•Hack into mechanical toys to add cool electronic twists, and more
United by the premise that to really understand science and how something works you must design and build it yourself or remake it better, Geek Parents everywhere will celebrate this latest installment of weekend workshop wonders.
My take on the book:
I loved Ken's first book (check out our review) and knew I would enjoy this one as well. I thought the activities in this one were awesome, but a bit more complex than in the first book. I would have liked to see a few simpler activities that could have been done with younger children (I keep thinking of the Superhero ABC book in Ken's first book). Nonetheless, this is a fantastic book dads and their kids can enjoy together. The instructions for each activity are really detailed and easy to follow so dads who themselves might not be so "geeky" can still try these out for fun.
I highly recommend this book and be sure to check out Ken's first Geek Dad book as well. Together, these books are guaranteed to provide hours of fun for dads and their kids.
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It's GEEK to me! Sounds like an excellant book!