Welcome to DI Tool Time with The Prince of Balsa

This site was created for the Destination ImagiNation Scholarship Committee (DISC) Internet Scholarship challenge. My goal is to provide basic information about tools that I think Destination ImagiNation teams should be comfortable using as well as providing some basic guidelines for their use. The information on these pages is from my experience in using tools in constructing solutions to DI challenges. This site is only an introduction to basic tools and how to use them. It deals mainly with building with wood and tools used to work with wood. For information on technical topics such as electrical and mechanical visit DI Tech DIcoded.

Using this site

  • Safety - some basic safety rules

  • My philosphy - comments on my basic approach to solving DI challenges.

  • Designing and Building - the steps that I believe a team should go through when solving a DI Challenge.

  • Introduction to Tools - types of tools that I have used (and some I haven't used) for solving DI challenges with some comments about how they might be used by DI teams.

  • Fasteners - different types of fasteners that teams might use to put together wood and metal props.

  • Working with Wood - Demonstrations on some basic wood working skills.

  • Using Corrugated - hints on how to work with corrugated.

  • Paints and Painting -ideas about paints to use and how to use them.

  • Examples - videos and pictures of DI props I have built.

  • Tool Time for Team Managers -notes for Team Managers

  • My Top Ten Hand Tools - The ten tools I would want if I could only have 10 (and this was harder than I thought)


Site Notes

  • Information on this site is general and is not specific to any Destination ImagiNation challenge. Teams should make sure that they have thoroughly studied the Rules of the Road and the specific Destination ImagiNation challenge they have chosen to solve.

  • Links to other sites are included as a convenience and do not imply endorsement of the information contained on those sites.

DI Tool Time by Chris Compton is licensed under a

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.