Craftsman and MAKE build the Ultimate Santa's Sleigh

This holiday season, MAKE has teamed up with Craftsman, Chicago's Butler Street Foundry and hackerspace Pumping Station One to create a number of techie projects as part of the Craftsman Experience store. The main collaboration is an Ultimate Santa's Sleigh, complete with an air cannon, LED lights, and other festive effects. You can check it out on Friday and Sunday nights, from 6:30-7:30pm CT (Live or Online). See the Craftsman Facebook page (click on the Experience tab) for more info and live streaming.
Here, Christina Pei offers her account of the initial phase of design and building the sleigh. —
On Saturday, November 20, a team met to begin building Craftman Tools and MAKE magazine's Ultimate Santa's Sleigh. John Lamonica, Gabriel Akagawa, Glen Trebilcock, and the rest of the team at the Butler Street Foundry, generously offered their space as the meeting and eventual building space. We were joined by special effects artist RJ Hermanowicz, and assistant director of the University of Chicago Woodlawn Charter Schools, Assata Moore. This rag-tag team of metal workers, engineers, artists, designers, and educators started with nothing more than a few pieces of paper, some chalk, and Craftsman Tools catalogs.

Source: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/12/craftsman_tools_and_make_build_the.html