rob reynolds, al jazeera, world preto, brazil >> there are plenty more news goodies on our website. just click on aljazeera.com. >... i mean, is this doable in the modern age for the average american. i have to believe it is. you're asking the wrong guy. i have a room full of half-finished or lamely finished maker projects of my own. >> better than me. >> the cigar box guitar looks nasty. i had to fix my daughter's nintendo dx. people are realising, like sherry and mark says, the tools are accessible, it's possible to do amazing things if you have the patients and time, and there's a graving to do something meaningful with your hands. you go to wal-mart and you can get anything you want, really cheaply. in some ways it's wonderful that the mass produced product are available anywhere. there's an emptiness to that, that people feel like, you know, my parents or my grandparents built stuff in their garage, or i made stuff in the kitchen. >> sherry, that makes me think when we were kids, you had home ec, shop, pottery. what has it done to us, taking all those things out that get our ha