Today we're having a Design Squad birthday party.
I'm Noah and today is my birthday.
- At a Design Squad birthday party, we are creative.
For our happy birthday sign,
we made letters out of duct tape,
we put a straw through them and built it off of that
so we could string all the letters together.
- Dad, can you help us hang up the sign?
- Did you notice there's no space
between the words "Happy" and "Birthday"?
- A Design Squad birthday party
even requires real troubleshooting.
You could add another straw in the middle
and then that would make a space.
We can cut a slit through the straw
and just snap it on.
- There you go.
- Let's test it out.
- It looks awesome.
- A Design Squad birthday party has gifts.
ELLIOT: They're all gifts we made.
- We made our own wrapping paper, too.
What is this?
It's a marshmallow blaster.
- All the force from the air blows the marshmallow out.
Thank you.
What is this, Elliot?
It's an origami flower with an LED inside.
It has a little switch on the battery pack.
That's how Noah's turning it on and off.
Whoa.
What is this?
This is a light-up bracelet.
- Wow!
Whoa.
- It's a string puppet.
So if you pull one of these, one of the arms will bend.
Whoa, that actually really works.
NOAH: This is awesome.
ELLIOT: It's hitting me!
Ow!
- Whoa, what does it do?
Elliot made a very technical piñata.
This does not look like an ordinary piñata.
So what you'll do is, you'll put candy in.
And then it has a special magnetically activated switch,
so when you get a magnet close to it,
it will make the motor spin with a little trap door.
I have a stick with some magnets on the end.
I have a magnetic switch hidden under the plastic somewhere.
- So you can't see where it is.
This makes the game harder.
ELLIOT: And everyone gets, like, five seconds
to run up and try and find the spot on the piñata
where there's the magnet switch.
Maybe we could have a little bit longer.
- Ten, nine, eight, seven,
six, five, four...
(beep)
- Oh, yeah!
Let's load it up and play again.
It's the one good thing about this type of piñata.
You can reuse it over and over again.
- Five, four, three, two...
(beep)
- Whoa!
- Oh, yeah!
We have a final surprise for Noah.
Elliot and I made a spinning turntable
for the birthday cake.
ELLIOT: And we're just going to squirt frosting
at the cake as we spin it.
Oh, I see a problem.
The cake's slipping a little.
So, actually, I have some duct tape right here
and I'm thinking, if we make a loop of it,
put it on the bottom, and then we can put it back
on the turntable.
- We're going to cut a small hole in the corner
so then we can squirt out the frosting onto the cake.
- It's making a spiral.
- Whoa!
- Stop.
Awesome.
I brought a way to motorize it.
I have a drill with a rubber wheel attached onto it.
Dad, come check this out!
- Hold it.
This cake looks like a spider web
with a bunch of different colored webs.
- This is an example of how technology
can help our lives.
Happy birthday, Noah!
Whoa...
And that is a Design Squad birthday party.
NOAH: Oh, except for the bristle bot
with the "happy birthday" sign on it.
- If you want to have a Design Squad birthday party,
look for ideas on the Design Squad website.