That assumes your child will pick up your interests which is certainly not guaranteed - mine sure did not even though I did try to engage them in similar (thoug

That assumes your child will pick up your interests which is certainly not guaranteed - mine sure did not even though I did try to engage them in similar (though less high-tech) exploits. I have two daughters who both grow up liking typical daughter-things like horses (which is not that odd given that my wife is a horse vet and we have 3 of the critters around the farm) and books instead of all those noisy smelly dangerous things I'm wont to play with. I did manage to build a three-wheeled soapbox car with my oldest daughter with which she then competed - and won - a soapbox race, the thing was loosely shaped like a bee and painted to resemble one, bug eyes included (bubble plastic with some red spray paint does wonders). It had Ackerman steering (cobbled together using rebar and welded-on nuts for bearings) and was dangerously fast, just the way those thing should be.