Blake Maloof is a game designer at Toys for Bob, which recently released the incredibly popular game called Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure. In this exclusive interview for Make Magazine, Blake discusses rapid prototyping, humble roots, and the innovative process of developing this wildly popular franchise with Robert Leyland, the technical engineer behind the Skylanders hardware, and I-Wei Huang, the character and toy director.

While there may be enough endearing puppet shows on the web waves, there are certainly not enough puppet shows that take on the build, hack, solder, crack, spark, squeeze and flow of electronics and circuitry. Adafruit is changing that with a new show airing next year called Circuit Playground. The show is set to premiere March 2013 via Ustream and Google+ tackling topics from robots to making.

Tripping among the vines past the fence row’s corner, he pushed against the cane that attached his arm to the ground. It was a peacefull corner (minus the vines) and a place that always left the heat outside its shaded surrounding. Yet, to this day, he peered into the top of that fence post, hoping…