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Light & Optics Prototyping with Phaeno - Part One

Light & Optics Prototyping with Phaeno - Part One

Ryan JenkinsMay 23, 2024exhibits, prototyping, phaeno wolfsburg, light, optics, colored shadows, light island, artists, tinkering, tinkerable, reflection, design, color mixing, primary colors

Coming Soon: The Tinkering Workshop by Ryan Jenkins

Coming Soon: The Tinkering Workshop by Ryan Jenkins

Ryan JenkinsMay 17, 2024tinkering, tinkering books, STEAM, STEAM projects, Explore, invent, build, ryan jenkins, making, makerspaces

Exploring the Vitra Design Museum

Exploring the Vitra Design Museum

Ryan JenkinsMay 14, 2024vitra design museum, vitra, design, weil am rhein, freiburg, eames, charles and ray eames, solar-do-nothing, eames chairs, transform, bicycle generator, solar, windmill, garden house, conversation with materials

Tinkering 15 for 15 (2009-2024) Episode 2: Luigi Anzivino on the TS Blog

Tinkering 15 for 15 (2009-2024) Episode 2: Luigi Anzivino on the TS Blog

Ryan JenkinsMay 6, 202415 for 15, blogcast, blogging, Luigi Anzivino, mini-interviews, poscasts, podcast, tinkering studio, archives, playfulness

Multilayered Kaleidoscope Experiments

Multilayered Kaleidoscope Experiments

Ryan JenkinsMay 3, 2024workshop, PD workshop, deutches museum, kaleidoscope, kaleidoscopes, prototype

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