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More Lantern Hacking
Today we’re going to try power tool jack-o-lantern carving on the floor in the Tinkering Studio from 12:00 to as long as the pumpkins last. I’m sure visitors will make some amazing creations and...
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Pop-Up Prep Part 2
As we get ready for our paper and cardboard pop-up workshop next week, we are both sharpening our focus and expanding the set of examples. We’ve created a mix of simple and evocative mechanisms made...
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A Few of Our Favorite Tops (part 1)
In the tinkering studio’s month long exploration of toys, we’re highlighting all types of spinning tops. And of course, our favorites are the do-it-yourself variety. Tops are incredibly easy to make...
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Balancing Toys
It all started with a bear on a unicycle. As one of the activities for this month’s toy theme, the classic “Ernest the Bear” inspired us to work with visitors, helping them create their own balancing...
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More Light Painting Tools
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been experimenting more with light painting tools for the Open Make: Tools event. Here are some of my favorite discoveries so far: Once again I tried embedding LEDs in...
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Cale’s Wind Table Flyer
Last week, after we posted photos and video of us messing around with our new ‘wind table’ prototype, we got a video message from Cale, a fellow tinkerer (and admitted blogstalker) from the Don...
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Marble Machines in the KSA
Lately in Tinkering Studio Dhahran, some of our facilitators have been stretching the limits of the marble machine activity and literally thinking outside the box to make some really awesome tracks....
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Wind Tubes at Wind Faire
Today we have a guest blog post from Raha, a field trip explainer who has been working with us this summer trying out some activities in the tinkering studio: About a week ago, I had the exciting task...
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“Toys Gone Wild” Prototypes
Next Sunday, we’re participating in the last members party with help from rogue artist-in-residence Leslie Henslee from the amazing frankenartmart in the inner richmond. Leslie brought in a bunch of...
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Ode to Tube Wall
Four years ago, we built a wall made out of cardboard tubes for the specific purpose of cordoning off a large area at Maker Faire for our chain reaction activity. We thought it would be just used for...
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MaKey MaKey workshops – the “little things”
For the past couple of weeks we’ve been doing a bunch of experiments creating instruments, game controllers, and other playful interfaces for computers using MaKey MaKey. It’s been a fun and...
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Time Dissolves in Water
Guest Blogger, Diane Whitmore: Exploratorium Exhibit Developer- Theme- Noticing Here’s another something I noticed recently. I think it has a lot of scientific content and interactive potential, but I...
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Taking Things Apart
We had a really exciting and fun week at the Tinkering Studio taking appliances apart and using the pieces to make accessories. I was amazed at the commitment visitors displayed- with some folks...
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