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CHALLENGE
iNvENT A
KITCHEN
CONTRAPTION
IT'S TIME TO START PLAYING WITH YOUR FOOD.
Automatic feeding machines, condiment catapults, an
alarm that lets you know when you've added the perfect
amount a milk to your cereal...your mission for this
challenge is to invent the future of cooking and eating.
1
CREATE A LIST OF FOOD YOU EAT
EVERY DAY.
have when you prepare, cook, and eat
those foods (e.g. getting ingredients,
cooking, eating, cleaning up).
3
LOOK THROUGH YOUR BITS
MATERIALS AND THINK ABOUT
HOW EACH ONE COULD HELP.
motion, light, or sound be useful? If
you're not sure what a Bit
how it could help, snap it into a circuit
and start to play with it. If you're still
stumped, read through the "Bit Index"
section (pages 6–21).
PRO TIP:
TAKE A LOOK AT EVERYDAY OBJECTS YOU COULD
MAKE BETTER WITH BITS. CHAIRS, POTS & PANS,
AND MILK JUGS COULD ALL BE GREAT STARTING
POINTS FOR BUILDING A PROTOTYPE.
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Think about the issues you
™
does or
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2
SELECT THE ISSUE YOU WANT TO WORK
ON.
the most fun to solve or makes your
life easier.
4
AND
SKETCH OUT IDEAS, PICK YOUR
FAVORITE, AND CREATE A
Could
PROTOTYPE.
getting everything right on the first try,
though. The important thing is to just
get started and experiment.
60
MIN
(MiNiMUM)
TIME
It could be the one that sounds
Don't worry about
LEVEL
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