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Tinkering Moment of Zen at Maker Faire

As soon as turntable got power and turned itself on, a spontaneous play break infected all of us as we were setting up a giant booth for this weekend’s Maker Faire shenanigans. Walter came up with a...

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Tinkering Moment of Zen: Improvising at Oscylinderscope

Two visitors busted out a guitar in the Tinkering Studio, and started improvising a tune using the string of Norman Tuck’s exhibit Oscylinderscope as a base. I love the fact that the atmosphere in the...

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Your Tinkering Moment of Zen: plant improv with MaKey MaKey

This mostly qualifies as a moment of zen because of where I chose to ground myself. Look closely… MaKey MaKey is an awesome project from our friends Eric Rosenbaum and Jay Silver at MIT Media Lab....

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Monent of Zen: Mylar Music Video

About to leave for the kingdom but had to post this last moment of zen before I go of our testing the capabilities of the mylar tube wall as a video screen pixelator for our favorite music video… We...

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Tinkering Moment of Zen: Uroborus

We’re testing out Norman Tuck’s new version of the uroborus in the tinkering studio this week and it didn’t take explainers long to figure out a way to mess around with the exhibit and connect a light...

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Tinkering Moment of Zen: One Ring to Rule Them All

Last week as part of our wind-up drawing machine explorations, our group messed around with melting crayons to make little molded parts for the contraptions. We also were interested in mold making on...

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Tinkering Moment of Zen: Cleaning Jacob’s Ladder

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Moment of Zen: Perspective Drawing

While trying to talk to Nicole through the window between the wood shop and the office, we realized that the window could be used for writing messages, which led to us making perspective drawings!...

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Tinkering Moment of Zen: pushup competition

The Tinkering Studio cross-fit training regimen is brutal. Next up: support beam pull-ups. It’s good to be back at work!

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Moment of Zen – Same As It Ever Was

Same as it ever was! from The Tinkering Studio on Vimeo. On Thursday, our friend, colleague, and guest blogger Michael Smith-Welch came by to check out the new building and I roped him into the task...

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Moment of Zen: Unexpected Outcomes of Exhibit Placement

Looks like our initial placement of Bernoulli Blower may have to be altered slightly… It’s been fun learning all the unexpected quirks and surprises of the new building. Who would have thought the air...

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