Building the Shed from RH on Vimeo.
This was really cool! And this is how I learned to use tools – by helping my dad.
Ryan Haskell says:
I’m trying to install the maker ethos in my kids. When the need came up for a garden shed, rather than buy a pre-built big-box store job or have a contractor come in, I enlisted the help of my 3 and 5 year-olds (and some backyard chickens) to build one from scratch. 32 lbs of screws and 4 weekends later, we had a nice 160 square foot shed. I documented the effort using a homemade arduino-controlled dolly platform to capture 15,500+ digital photos with my DSLR, assembled here into a 9 minute timelapse video.
When I needed a backyard shed, I built it myself as well. It cost elss than half of what a pre-fab one would have cost and I built it like a house you could live in. My dad, in his seventies by then, came over and helped me out with it a couple of times. Dad died in February, and that shed was the last project we ever did together. It ain’t the shed that mattered.
Window?
Do we really need a window?
Good thing it didn’t rain.
A tree house would be cool.
Then a car elevator.