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More Toddler Tinkering Dispatches
More Toddler Tinkering Dispatches
Ryan JenkinsMay 27, 2025toddler tinkering, tinkering with toddlers, paper cars, LEDs, early childhood tinkering, ramps and rollers, blocks, painting, tubes, wooden robots, woodworking, linkages, mechanisms, construction site
Forest Tinkering with Sky Trams
Forest Tinkering with Sky Trams
Ryan JenkinsMay 19, 2025naturwerkstatt, breisach, forest tinkering, green tinkering, nature tinkering, sky trams, zip lines, crawlers, woods, forest, tinkering, prototypes
AutomataFest 2025 Recap`
AutomataFest 2025 Recap`
Ryan JenkinsMay 13, 2025cabaret mechanical theatre, automatafest, hastings, mechanical making space, observer building, automata magazine, paul spooner, tim hunkin, lisa slater, fi henshall, carlos zapata, tom haney, steve guy, loulou cousins, automata global tinkering workshop, LEGO, LEDs, computational tinkering, digital automata, OBX, natalie freed, nexmap, ensemble kit, cardboard automata, linkages, giant linkage party, festival
Automata and "Carolices" at Fabrica Centro Ciencia Viva
Automata and "Carolices" at Fabrica Centro Ciencia Viva
Ryan JenkinsApril 29, 2025the tinkering workshop, portugal, aveiro, fabrica, ciencia viva, cranky contraptions, crank slider, cardboard, carolices, avo carlos, grandpa carlos's little nonsense things, makerspace, tinkering environment
Art Machine Prototyping with an AI Chatbot
Art Machine Prototyping with an AI Chatbot
Ryan JenkinsApril 15, 2025art machine, twisted turtle, programmable art bots, turtle, AI, AI tools, reflection, pros and cons, chatbot, chatGPT, facilatation, microbit, micropython, makecode, coding, programming, digital tinkering, troubleshooting, iteration
Chair Marble Machines School Library Takeover
Chair Marble Machines School Library Takeover
Ryan JenkinsApril 12, 2025chair marble machines, marble machines, ISP, prague, international school of prague, library, school library, third graders, educators guide, book tour, the tinkering workshop, clean up, popcorn, reflection, activation, large scale
Martian Windmills at Weltraum Festival
Martian Windmills at Weltraum Festival
Ryan JenkinsApril 5, 2025weltraumfest, weltraum festival, raumschiff, zurich, dubendorf, the tinkering workshop, book tour, european book tour, space, mars, everyday materials, experiments, cardboard
Playful and Creative AI Workshop in Freiburg
Playful and Creative AI Workshop in Freiburg
Ryan JenkinsApril 4, 2025AI, Emancipatory AI, University Freiburg, NEXUS experiments, library, HRRC, University of Connecticut, UCONN, project week, animation, AI animations, scratch, scratch lab, face sensing, gallery walk, AI blocks, chatbot, large language model, 3d printing, experiment, coding, workshop, AI odyssey, YouMedia Center, inter.aktion
Packable Cardboard Workshop Elements
Packable Cardboard Workshop Elements
Ryan JenkinsMarch 20, 2025the tinkering workshop, book tour, tinkering suitcases, experiments, packable, materials, weighted wobblers, ShiftED, Cambridge Science Center, USB fans, Inflatable friends, voltpaperscissors, spin art robots, cardboard, cardboard construction, tufteltour, remixes, adaptations, modifications
A Citywide Tinkering Tour in Ludwigsburg
A Citywide Tinkering Tour in Ludwigsburg
Ryan JenkinsMarch 18, 2025tinkertank, ludwigsburg, tufteltour, tinkering tour, citywide workshop, art bots, art machines, creative lab, thalia books, voltpaperscissors, spin art, spinner, spirograph, tinkering, the tinkering workshop, book tour, book launch, european book tour, library, maker zone, makerspace, open make, remix, remixed art machines
Books and Articles to Inspire Tinkering with AI
Books and Articles to Inspire Tinkering with AI
Ryan JenkinsMarch 13, 2025prototyping, AI workshop, inspirations, ken kahn, CMK press, learner's apprentice, seymour papert, mindstorms, Mitchel Resnick, Eric Rosenbaum, LLK, MIT Media Lab, Scratch Team, Scratch, podcasts, ezra klein, machines of loving grace, gary stager, mitra martin, nettrice gaskins, holly herndon, nnedi okarafor
UK Book Tour for The Tinkering Workshop
UK Book Tour for The Tinkering Workshop
Ryan JenkinsMarch 11, 2025UK, The Tinkering Workshop, book tour, workshops, London, Hastings, Exeter, Cambridge, readers, playful, workshop, ShiftED, Institute of Imagination, world book day
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