DIY.org: Be Prepared for 21st Century Scouting
DIY.org is selling kids on an engineering-driven Scout culture
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There are several paths to becoming a Circuit Bender. You can build a tiny lightsaber with a straw, an LED light, and some double-A batteries. You can assemble a contact microphone or an amplifier with other household items. You can try your hand with a soldering iron, too, as long as you’re working to “customize and hack technologies to do things they aren’t designed to do.”