My three-year-old daughter told me a story one evening about inventor trolls who travel to our house in jury-rigged vehicles and subject us to Rube Goldberg practical jokes. Boggle & Sneak is an extension of that story involving kidnapping, shoplifting, rapid prototyping and wiener ballistics. The hardcover includes awesome flipbook animation by Mozhi (watch it).
Boggle & Sneak
Sample chapter, downloads, Maker Faire videos and more after the jump:
We ended up getting 140 groups to do readings of Boggle and Sneak, for a total of close to 300 people. I’ve been saying that the story of this Maker Faire for me will be that 300 people walked up and knowingly did me a personal favor (and this was on top of the giant-sized favor that my crew of Ed, Andrew, Will and Susan all pulled out.) My main reaction is basically stunned and bewildered gratitude. People can be pretty great!
Ed, Will, Andrew and I spent the day at Maker Faire asking fairegoers to read pages out of Boggle and Sneak in our time machine. Each person or group read a single page, and we’ll be editing all the the pages into chapter-length videos. The readers were great! We had individuals, couples, parents and kids, moms and babies, groups of friends, and a man with the devil on his back. We’re still hoping to get R2D2, but we haven’t been able to get his attention yet.
The Time Machine and I will be attending Make Magazine‘s Maker Faire in San Mateo May 3-4, to film the Boggle and Sneak videobook! Read all about it!