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Last Minute Halloween Costume Ideas

Last Minute Halloween Costume Ideas

Ryan JenkinsOctober 30, 2024the tinkering workshop, halloween, costumes, cardboard, funny, spooky, googly eyes, trash tutu, cardboard skateboard, rearview mirror, big face box, mobiles, defensive dress, book launch, book release, inspirations, ideas, prototypes

Going Deeper with Cardboard Kaleidoscopes

Going Deeper with Cardboard Kaleidoscopes

Ryan JenkinsNovember 24, 2023kaleidoscopes, mirrors, kaleidoscope, cardboard, motors, LEGO, simple kaleidoscopes, Gary Newlin, Octo Studio, Magna-tiles, lights, flashlights, experiments, prototypes

Automata Tour in Falmouth and Hastings

Automata Tour in Falmouth and Hastings

A Playful Residency at Connecticut Science Center

A Playful Residency at Connecticut Science Center

Cardboard Circuitry Starting Points

Cardboard Circuitry Starting Points

Ryan JenkinsMay 16, 2023cardboard, cities, circuit city, LEGO, tinkering studio, tinkering inventive playset, ufte, solar power, sustainable tinkering, switches, LEDs, gear motors, copper tape, scrappy circuits

Circuit Cities Inspirations and Prototypes

Circuit Cities Inspirations and Prototypes

Balancing Sculptures and Prototyping at a Distance

Balancing Sculptures and Prototyping at a Distance

Scrappy Solar Do-Nothing Prototypes

Scrappy Solar Do-Nothing Prototypes

Ryan JenkinsSeptember 14, 2021ecotinkering, solar panels, solar power, eames, spinner, solar do nothing, machine, prototypes, shadow play, light play, cardboard, scrappy, magic stick, noga elhassid, helicopter, toys, base models

Tinkerable Things: Toilet Paper Tubes

Tinkerable Things: Toilet Paper Tubes

Ryan JenkinsAugust 12, 2021online workshop, tinkering, prototyping, moving toys workshop, automata, derder, TP tubes, toilet paper tube, art, inspiration, tinkerable things, workshop, recyclable materials, paper, cardboard, noga elhassid

Kaleidoscope Workshop at Experimenta

Kaleidoscope Workshop at Experimenta

Ryan JenkinsJuly 13, 2021tinkering, kaleidoscope, heilbronn, experimenta, workshop, nature, jochen hunger, hacks, mirrors, prototypes, cardboard, activity design, microscopes, makerspace, creative labs, ZKM, biomaterials

WICO@Home Cardboard Collage Automata

WICO@Home Cardboard Collage Automata

Ryan JenkinsJanuary 13, 2021automata, cardboard, WICOatHome, cranky contraptions, collage, aarhus university, playing at a distance, everyday materials, instructable, tools and materials, tinkering, prototype, cardboard automata, pop-up, tinkering at home, prototyping, wire bending

Coin Operated Micro:bit Machines

Coin Operated Micro:bit Machines

Ryan JenkinsDecember 18, 2020cabaret mechanical theater, CMT, arcade machines, coin switches, tim hunkin, under the pier, novelty automata, automata, cardboard, microbit, microbit inputs, computational contraptions, digital tinkering