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Tinkering, Digital Tools and Storytelling

Tinkering, Digital Tools and Storytelling

Ryan JenkinsMarch 18, 2021storytelling, stories, narrative, microbit, tinkering school, cabaret mechanical theatre, automata, a town explores a book, edward lear, animation, online workshop, nonsense poems, tinkering

Automata Inspirations in Freiburg

Automata Inspirations in Freiburg

Ryan JenkinsFebruary 24, 2021automata, artists, inspiration, kinetic scupltures, claus schneidereit, gallery, atelier, sound, remix, workshops, making, tinkering, solar power, solar, solar tinkering, light play, germany, freiburg

Third Space Mini Exhibit Workshop Update

Third Space Mini Exhibit Workshop Update

Ryan JenkinsFebruary 8, 2021dharohar, third space mini, workshop, prototypes, exhibits, block station, tops table, art machines, exhibit design, udaipur india, microbit, constructionism, tinkering, professional development

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

Plushie and Micro:bit Experiments

Plushie and Micro:bit Experiments

Ryan JenkinsJanuary 5, 2021microbit, plushie, machine learning, programming, digital tinkering, workshop, online workshop, sock puppet, AI tinkering, gesture recognition, unversity of tokyo, froggy

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

Micro:bit Servo Explorations

Micro:bit Servo Explorations

Ryan JenkinsNovember 30, 2020automata, workshop, servo motor, continuous servo, computational tinkering, microbit, LED, washing machine, makecode, programming

Online Collaboration with Padlet

Online Collaboration with Padlet

Ryan JenkinsNovember 16, 2020workshop, zoom, padlet, collaboration, connection, sharing, automata, STEAMconf, Fablearn, tinkering, remote tinkering, virtual learning, tinkering at a distance

Micro:bit Computational Characters

Micro:bit Computational Characters

Ryan JenkinsNovember 12, 2020microbit, animation, faces, automata, cabaret mechanical theater, computational tinkering, computational contraptions, expressive coding, makecode, sensors, buttons, LEDs, peter markey, kinetic sculptures, digital tinkering, digital pets

Wall Mounted Ping-Pong Ball Machines

Wall Mounted Ping-Pong Ball Machines

Ryan JenkinsSeptember 2, 2020make, maker camp, ping pong, ball runs, marble machines, cardboard, tinkering, webcast, webinar, microbit, servo motor

Tinkering Automata Workshop with CMT

Tinkering Automata Workshop with CMT

Ryan JenkinsAugust 11, 2020automata, tinkering, workshop, online, making, STEAM, artists, educators, zoom, remote tinkering, WICO@home, CMT, cabaret mechanical theater, paul spooner

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