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http://makeprojects.com/Project/Sculpting-Circuits/328/1 Making play-dough creatures is fun, but making them with light-up eyes and moving parts is even more enjoyable. We thought it would be better still if we could make the circuitry out of the dough itself! Most play dough is already conductive, but we needed a way to insulate the conductive dough. We came up with a sugar-based dough that works well as an insulator. It’s pliable and resistant to blending with the conductive dough. Rainy day and fidgety kids? Whip up both types of dough, gather some LEDs and batteries, and create your own menagerie of squishy circuit creations. Add a motor or two for sculptures with moving parts. Feeling adventurous? Play with the salt content of the recipes to vary their conductivity.

 http://makeprojects.com/Project/Intro-to-Scratch/1141/1

The big video game companies create best-selling titles every year, but for the rest of us, bringing our own unique game ideas from wishful thinking into reality is notoriously difficult. Creating even the simplest functionality can take tens of thousands of lines of code. Luckily, the MIT Media Lab has created free software, Scratch (scratch.mit.ed u), that lets kids create their own games or interactive stories using an easy drag-and-drop interface and some elementary programming. Download, install, and launch Scratch, and soon you’ll be creating simple “side-scrollers” — games like Super Mario Bros., where characters navigate obstacles left-to-right. You can also make your characters communicate via speech balloons, like an animated cartoon. Scratch makes no distinction between games and animations; it’s all in your programming.

http://www.buildyourwildself.com/