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Everett Is 4: The Plane-Themed Birthday
Project everettis4 — a fourth birthday with a flight plan. Invitations, decorations and party tech, all designed around one small aviation enthusiast.
Some kids want a party. Mine wanted an airport.
When the birthday boy announced the theme — planes — I did what any reasonable
parent would do and opened a new project folder named everettis4.
Pre-flight: the plan
Boarding passes & invitations
The terminal (decorations)
The art department (age 3¾ at the time) had final say on all decor.
The tech
Wheels down
What the simple version would have been
A plane-shaped cake and some balloons. Honestly, that would have been fine. But it wouldn't have been his.
Next on the workbench
The Magic Wand
A four-year-old asked for a wand that does real magic. So we built one — with a microcontroller, a motion sensor and an unreasonable number of LEDs.
The CyberBrick RC Bulldozer
A 3D-printed, remote-controlled bulldozer built on CyberBrick — printed at home, assembled together, and immediately sent to push blocks around the living room.