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Musical Bench Iterations and Updates
Musical Bench Iterations and Updates
Ryan JenkinsJanuary 31, 2026musical bench, tinkering studio, exploratorium, nicole catrett, PICO cricket, musical tinkering, sound, conductivity, electricity, instructable, remixes, iteration, parallel programming, OliOli, bela board, playtronica, touchme, touchme board, AI coding, midi, vibecoding, experimentation
Glow City at the Carl Schurz Haus
Glow City at the Carl Schurz Haus
Ryan JenkinsJanuary 27, 2026the tinkering workshop, glow city, cardboard construction, paper circuits, LEDs, conductive tape, installation, collaboration
Testing Tinkerable Exhibits at OliOli
Testing Tinkerable Exhibits at OliOli
Ryan JenkinsJanuary 23, 2026olioli, dubai, cars and ramps, musical stairs, AI shapeshifter, prototyping, testing, workshops, LEGO, DUPLO, Tom Fox, Radames Ajna, freilab, claus schneidereit, chain reaction, imaginators, jumps, scrap materials, ring of fire, musical steps, bela board, sensors, AI, AI tinkering
Discovering Thomas Dambo's Trolls
Discovering Thomas Dambo's Trolls
Ryan JenkinsJanuary 3, 2026trolls, thomas dambo, ireland, california, imagination, tinkering, storytelling, characters
2025 Year in Review
2025 Year in Review
Ryan JenkinsDecember 29, 20252025, year in review, book tour, AI tinkering, automatafest, creative learning festival, green tinkering, solar spinners, early childhood tinkering, in memoriam
Micro:bit "Nature Anatomy" Robots
Micro:bit "Nature Anatomy" Robots
Ryan JenkinsDecember 15, 2025mircrobit, makecode, nature anatomy, toddler tinkering, early childhood tinkering, eastern grey squirrel, blue atlantic crab, julia rothchild, programming, robot petting zoo
Two Material Explorations for Early Childhood Tinkering
Two Material Explorations for Early Childhood Tinkering
Ryan JenkinsDecember 11, 2025Science et Cité, early childhood tinkering, young learners, young tinkerers, bern, workshop, brainstorming, thinking routines, roly poly rollers, the tinkering workshop, two materials building sets, everyday materials, lite brite, kaleidoscope, hinged mirror, angled mirror, duplo, cars, cars and ramps, velcro, rolling
Hack your House Tinkering Workshop in Spatial Chat
Hack your House Tinkering Workshop in Spatial Chat
Ryan JenkinsDecember 10, 2025spatialchat, online tinkering, clean conferencing institute, maker parties, hack your house, padlet, gallery, stop motion, AI characters, shadow remix
Freiburg Maker Educator Meet-Up (Glühen)
Freiburg Maker Educator Meet-Up (Glühen)
Ryan JenkinsDecember 9, 2025freiburg, makers, MINT, professional development, maker ed, BAME, MAM, MEM, maker educator meetup, Glühen, glow city, light up city, cardboard LEDs, glow village, light play, installation, prorotyping
Big Face Box and St. Martin's Mechanical Lanterns
Big Face Box and St. Martin's Mechanical Lanterns
Ryan JenkinsDecember 2, 2025halloween, st martins day, lantern, big face box, DIY, costumes, DIY lanternen, holiday, sankt martin, light up automata, LED, cranky contraptions, crank slider, handcrank, germany, parade, umzug, basteln
#LightUpPopUpTober Cardboard Automata
#LightUpPopUpTober Cardboard Automata
Ryan JenkinsNovember 7, 2025chibitronics, paper circuits, automata, popuptober, lightuppoptober, keith allen, automata global tinkering workshop, fi henshall, cabaret mechanical theatre, scatter, light, LEDs, disco ball, cranky contraptions, switch, homemade switch, rob ives
Spatial Chat Tinkering Workshop: Hack your House
Spatial Chat Tinkering Workshop: Hack your House
Ryan JenkinsNovember 5, 2025spatialchat, online workshop, clean conferencing institute, maker parties, hack your house, tinkering workshop, hands-on, educators, professional development, making, tinkering
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