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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

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

Remembering Norman Tuck

Remembering Norman Tuck

Delightful Dirigibles Prototyping

Delightful Dirigibles Prototyping

Creative Learning Festival in Milan

Creative Learning Festival in Milan

Solar Sculptures at the Naturwerkstatt Breisach

Solar Sculptures at the Naturwerkstatt Breisach

Searching for Tinkering: Technorama

Searching for Tinkering: Technorama

Ryan JenkinsSeptember 21, 2025technorama, searching for tinkering, swiss science center, bildungscongress, exploratorium, PFA, frank oppenheimer, exhibits, exponaten, pierre andres, tinkering studio, wind table, marble machines, circuit boards, exhibit development, workshop