Hes been asking for songs for everything, and since he loves super heros right now, he asked for "Black Panther song". My wife was quick on her feet and just picked a song, which happened to be Imagine Dragons - Believe.
Unfortunately this music video is just two guys boxing, and we are trying to avoid direct violence at least for a bit, so I made a new video from the original video, as well as clips from the Black Panther movie.
He wanted to be Darth Maul, so I quick threw together a hand-made construction paper+paint+rubber band mask.
Made a bunch of lightsabers with pvc and colored electrical tape.
A friends son wanted to make a rocket you could climb into and take off, so I threw a quick demo together.
He loves super heros, so I found a working POC spiderman template in unreal, and cleaned it up/optmized it to run on ue4 mobile (running on android).
Made it an infinite runner with a simple touch interface for him to play with.
During covid lockdown, I started teaching courses (software hacking/video game development/hardware hacking)
This is a controller I showed the kids how to hack so we could automate it using an arduino.
He left his toy chainsaw outside and it stopped working, so I took it apart, and re-soldered a corroded terminal.
(Not making a separate post, but had to fix a second time by de-soldering an smd button, and soldering a new smd button of similar size [had to melt a bit to get to fix with the soldering iron])
When your son wants an action figure that doesn't exist... You 3d print it! Here is what it looks like in the game. And here is what I ...
