It’s a box filled with projects! Riffing on the idea of Community Supported Agriculture, where you buy into a farm and receive a box of veggies every week, we’ll be sending out a monthly box of stuff to make and do. Materials, instructions, ideas, links to further research — a semi-curated snapshot of what we’re up to each month.
What might show up in your box?
Build your own lightsaber! (PVC, LEDs, and battery pack included) Introduction to lockpicking! How to juggle (and how to make your own juggling balls)! Turn your house into a marble run! A variety of exciting things to make and do and think about. Each month we will send out a major project and a couple of smaller projects and experiments, all developed month-by-month at Parts and Crafts, based on things we’ve worked on in our programs.
Why CSE?
Community Supported Agriculture creates a really valuable and rare kind of relationship between the farmer and the consumer. The farmer comes to know who he or she is growing food for, and this known audience provides both a reason to grow food and the money and other resources that farming requires.
For us, the CSE is similar — these boxes will push us to make our nascent ideas publically usable, get people building and making and crafting in their own homes, widen the set of people and the kinds of projects we get to work with and on, and create for us a community of support for our own ongoing research and development.
what’s a CSE?
What’s a CSE?
It’s a box filled with projects! Riffing on the idea of Community Supported Agriculture, where you buy into a farm and receive a box of veggies every week, we’ll be sending out a monthly box of stuff to make and do. Materials, instructions, ideas, links to further research — a semi-curated snapshot of what we’re up to each month.
What might show up in your box?
Build your own lightsaber! (PVC, LEDs, and battery pack included) Introduction to lockpicking! How to juggle (and how to make your own juggling balls)! Turn your house into a marble run! A variety of exciting things to make and do and think about. Each month we will send out a major project and a couple of smaller projects and experiments, all developed month-by-month at Parts and Crafts, based on things we’ve worked on in our programs.
Why CSE?
Community Supported Agriculture creates a really valuable and rare kind of relationship between the farmer and the consumer. The farmer comes to know who he or she is growing food for, and this known audience provides both a reason to grow food and the money and other resources that farming requires.
For us, the CSE is similar — these boxes will push us to make our nascent ideas publically usable, get people building and making and crafting in their own homes, widen the set of people and the kinds of projects we get to work with and on, and create for us a community of support for our own ongoing research and development.
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