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Tinkering Workshop at Deutsches Museum

Tinkering Workshop at Deutsches Museum

Ryan JenkinsMay 1, 2024workshop, deutsches museum, munich, light play, water automata, tinkering EU, scribbing machines, sculptures, kaleidoscopes, microbit, digital tinkering

Visits to ReDiscover Center and Thinkery

Visits to ReDiscover Center and Thinkery

Ryan JenkinsApril 15, 2024visits, museum visit, site visit, makerspace, los angeles, texas, california, austin, rediscover center, thinkery, light play

Testing a Loose Parts Kaleidoscope Station

Testing a Loose Parts Kaleidoscope Station

Ryan JenkinsApril 5, 2024kaleidoscope, loose parts, camera, lenses, prototypes, maquettes, testing, LEGO, LEGO playful museum learning network

Organ Workshop & Tüfteln in Waldkirch

Organ Workshop & Tüfteln in Waldkirch

Ryan JenkinsMarch 20, 2024tinkering, tüfteln, workshop, tools, organ, organ building, pipe organ, handcrank, musical tinkering, music, black forest, local tinkering

Iterative Kaleidoscope Building Ideas

Iterative Kaleidoscope Building Ideas

Ryan JenkinsMarch 18, 2024kaleidoscopes, kaleidoscope, lego, lego pla, LEGO playful museum learning network, prototypes, prototyping process, mirrored cardstock, rubber bands, magnets

Tinkering 15 for 15 (2009-2024) Episode 1: Dr. Gary S. Stager on CMK Institute

Tinkering 15 for 15 (2009-2024) Episode 1: Dr. Gary S. Stager on CMK Institute

Ryan JenkinsMarch 15, 202415 for 15, tinkering, mini-interviews, blogcast, 2009-2024, Tinkering Studio, Gary Stager, Dr. Gary S. Stager, Constructing Modern Knowledge, CMK Institute, professional development

Maker Faire Heilbronn "Remix your Toys"

Maker Faire Heilbronn "Remix your Toys"

Ryan JenkinsFebruary 29, 2024maker faire, maker faire heilbronn, experimenta, der makerspace, frieburg, heilbronn, martin schwab, LEGO, LEGO marble machines, LEGO art machines, remix your toys, LEGO pull string motor, timelapse

Tinkering with "Time" Community Meet-Up

Tinkering with "Time" Community Meet-Up

Ryan JenkinsFebruary 26, 2024

'A Secret Club' Mini-Residency in Freiburg

'A Secret Club' Mini-Residency in Freiburg

The Power of Junk

The Power of Junk

Ryan JenkinsJanuary 23, 2024tinkertank, hackathon, ludwigsburg, games, junk, dissection, tinkering, explorations

Making Kaleidoscopes More Collaborative

Making Kaleidoscopes More Collaborative

Ryan JenkinsJanuary 19, 2024kaleidoscopes, collaboration, tinkering inventive playsets, TIPs, LEGO playful museum learning network, tinkering studio, projector, raspberry pi, social scaffolding, webcam, toys, junk, remix, tinkertank, duck into a kaleidoscope, prototyping, activity design, activity development

Visit to the German Clock Museum

Visit to the German Clock Museum

Ryan JenkinsJanuary 8, 2024Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, German Clock Museum, black forest, tinkering, mechanisms, cuckoo clocks, clocks, models, music machines, bellows, lithography, press, printing, printing press, kitchen table lithography, studio lula, DIY cuckoo clock kit