Experimenting with Turning an Ultrasonic Cleaner into an Ultrasonic Knife
Follow along as a curious maker tries to turn an ultrasonic cleaner into an ultrasonic cutting knife.
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Weekend Watch: Tinkering and Stop Motion with Dina Amin
A young Egyptian product designer deconstructs and stop-motion animates her tinkering for entertainment, inspiration, and education.
What I Learned Building a Mechanized Spinning Musical Instrument
The hexachord is a mechanized, spinning musical instrument that creates the music of a small string ensemble.
Talkin’ Tinkering with the Masters of Automata
The Exploratorium Tinkering Studio invites all of you to join a Google Hangout this Friday, November 21st from 9am to 10:30am (Pacific time) to talk about one of their true specialties—Automata!—with some of their favorite masters of this art/technology. Joining the Tinkering Studio team will be a star-studded group: Artist Keith Newstead (whose pieces are at the top […]
Build This Model Arm and Explore Human Tinkering
What’s the best way to learn anatomy? Tinkering.
Tinkering with Kids – Get in It for the Long Haul
Why do we educators do it? It’s fun enough tinkering around with projects on our own, so why must we bang our heads trying to involve a pack of screaming kids from the neighborhood?
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I [heart] The Art of Tinkering
We at MAKE love The Tinkering Studio at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, so when we heard that its directors, Karen Wilkinson and Mike Petrich, were going to capture their community of artists and engineers (“Tinkerers”) into the pages of a book called The Art of Tinkering, we couldn’t wait to get our hands on it. And you know what? They have exceeded my very high hopes for what they’d create.
