The other day we made My First Squiggle Bot (see, sometimes we make things other than books over here!), a doodle-happy recycled robot from 62 Projects to 
Make With a Dead Computer by Randy Sarafan. This jittery little doodler is made using a fan pulled from an expired computer in the office IT closet (plus a battery, a connector, some rubber bands, and a handful of markers). Office Squiggle Bot wowed in a publicity meeting earlier in the week, then had a brilliant encore when Mattie and his dad, 10-Minute Puppet author Noel MacNeal, visited Workman last week.
After construction (pages 131-133 in the book), we simply attached red wire to red wire to activate and…look Ma, no hands! Squiggle Bot churns out masterpiece after masterpiece…
Now that we have two Squiggle Bots in the office, it’s time for a showdown! Will Squiggle Bot Beta take down Squiggle Bot 1.0? Or will they doodle happily together into the sunset? Remove your pen caps and start your engines, gentle-bots. And the rest of you, go ahead and place your bets, because it doesn’t get much more exciting than this.
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