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The Tinkering Workshop Book Tour Continues

The Tinkering Workshop Book Tour Continues

Ryan JenkinsOctober 29, 2024book tour, book launch, socal, MOXI, timbre books, ReDiscover Center, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Ventura, art machines, cranky contraptions, automata, hard fun, cardboard forts, circuits, electricity

Making a Book: Rough Draft to Final Iteration

Making a Book: Rough Draft to Final Iteration

Ryan JenkinsJuly 19, 2024The Tinkering Workshop, behind the scenes, making of, photography, photoshoot, first pages, rough draft, marble machines, storey publishing, marble machine, sky tram, cranky contraptions

Automata Workshop at National Children's Museum

Automata Workshop at National Children's Museum

Ryan JenkinsMay 26, 2023automata, cranky contraptions, workshop, professional development, NCM, National Children's Museums, DC, facilitation, cabaret mechanical theatre

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

WICO@Home Workshops with Friends

WICO@Home Workshops with Friends

Ryan JenkinsAugust 6, 2020WICO@home, remote, virtual, online, presentations, workshops, ecsite2020, automata, make, maker camp, amazeum, bennet live, cranky contraptions

Cabaret Automata at Phaeno Wolfsburg

Cabaret Automata at Phaeno Wolfsburg

Ryan JenkinsNovember 22, 2019automata, cabaret mechanical theater, phaeno wolfsburg, exhibtion, cardboard automata, cranky contraptions, fire the inventor, paul spooner, ensemble kit, workshop, professional development, wicointheworld

Khoj Club Workshops for Youth in Udaipur

Khoj Club Workshops for Youth in Udaipur

Ryan JenkinsJanuary 31, 2019udaipur, india, workshop, marble machine, cranky contraptions, automata, chain reaction, linkages, facilitation

Dharohar Tinkering PD workshop Day 2

Dharohar Tinkering PD workshop Day 2

Ryan JenkinsJanuary 22, 2019PD workshop, dharohar, india, tinkering, cranky contraptions, chain reaction, switches, circuits, travel, someday monday

Amazeum Automata Explorations

Amazeum Automata Explorations

Ryan JenkinsAugust 30, 2018amazeum, automata, cardboard automata, cranky contraptions, microbit, motobit, cabaret mechanical theater, fire the inventor, bubble machine, tinkerfest

Ecsite 2018 Makerspace Recap

Ecsite 2018 Makerspace Recap

Ryan JenkinsJune 18, 2018ecsite, makerspace, geneva, ecsite2018, cranky contraptions, computational tinkering, hack your badge, marble madness, fablab, pop-up, conference

Playful Computation and Contraptions at Amazeum

Playful Computation and Contraptions at Amazeum

Ryan JenkinsMay 16, 2018amazeum, residency, automata, computational tinkering, chibichip, chibitronics, cranky contraptions