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Solar Sculptures at the Naturwerkstatt Breisach
Solar Sculptures at the Naturwerkstatt Breisach
Ryan JenkinsSeptember 22, 2025naturwerkstatt, nature tinkering, forest tinkering, playful, creative, solar, solar panels, motors, kinetic sculptures, playing with the sun, amos blanton, technorama, solar mobiles, solar motors, alternative energy, persistance of vision, grove, woods, breisach, breisach am rhein, shadows, sunlight, sustainability, sustainable tinkering, green tinkering
Searching for Tinkering: Technorama
Searching for Tinkering: Technorama
Ryan JenkinsSeptember 21, 2025technorama, searching for tinkering, swiss science center, bildungscongress, exploratorium, PFA, frank oppenheimer, exhibits, exponaten, pierre andres, tinkering studio, wind table, marble machines, circuit boards, exhibit development, workshop
Rollers with Pom Poms and Pebbles
Rollers with Pom Poms and Pebbles
Ryan JenkinsSeptember 17, 2025roly poly rollers, pom poms, pebbles, spielmobil, nicole catrett, motion boards, robots, pom pom factory, testing, prototyping, creative learning festival, milan, museo nazionale scienza e technologia leonardo da vinci di milano
Motorized Balance Sculptures at Technorama
Motorized Balance Sculptures at Technorama
Ryan JenkinsSeptember 16, 2025bildungscongress, technorama, switzerland, professional development, the tinkering workshop, prototyping, weighted wobblers, balancing sculptures, wires, weights, motors, pager motors
Kinderkunstdorf Freiburg 2025
Kinderkunstdorf Freiburg 2025
Ryan JenkinsSeptember 10, 2025kinderkunstdorf, kaleidoscopes, art machines, scribbling machines, art bots, robots, workshops, pop-up, festival, art, curiousity, tinkering
Recycled Roly Poly Rollers Prototyping
Recycled Roly Poly Rollers Prototyping
Ryan JenkinsAugust 11, 2025yound learners, toddler tinkering, roly poly, robotino, robots, motion boards, motors, switches, sparkfun, janitor of LA, janitor of freiburg, laura kampf, upcycling, recycling, zu verschenken, spielmobil, prototyping, testing, explorations, creative learning festival, museo nazionale scienza e technologia leonardo da vinci di milano, PD workshop, Milan, young tinkerers
Light & Optics Exhibits On the Floor at Phaeno
Light & Optics Exhibits On the Floor at Phaeno
Ryan JenkinsJuly 26, 2025light, optics, light and optics, phaeno, phaeno wolfsburg, playful exhibits, RGB shadows, colored shadows
Searching for Tinkering: Water, Cardboard and Sound
Searching for Tinkering: Water, Cardboard and Sound
Ryan JenkinsJuly 25, 2025searching for tinkering, schwarzwald, watermills, saw mill, automata, germay, germany, black forest, LEDs, cardboard, art museum, kunsthaus, monster chetwynd, elztal museum, sound, sound machines
Maker Girl and Professor Smarts Book Review
Maker Girl and Professor Smarts Book Review
Ryan JenkinsJuly 21, 2025jasmine florentine, hex allen, maker girl and professor smarts, MIT kids press, maker books, book review, grappling hook, the tinkering workshop
Approaches to Tinkering with AI
Approaches to Tinkering with AI
Ryan JenkinsJuly 14, 2025AI, KI, Experimenta, inter.aktion, conference, professional development, conferences, prorotypes, nexus, University Freiburg, scratch, scratch labs, face sensing, AI animations, circuit blocks, KI-pavillion, mitchel resnick
Water Factory Tinkering at Boulder Public Library
Water Factory Tinkering at Boulder Public Library
Ryan JenkinsJuly 4, 2025boulder public library, celeste moreno, water factory, the tinkering workshop, toddler tinkering, storytime tinkering, swim swim sink, water tinkering
Klangkugelbahn at Waldkirch Sound and Organ Festival
Klangkugelbahn at Waldkirch Sound and Organ Festival
Ryan JenkinsJuly 3, 2025Waldkirch, Elztal museum, organ festival, sound and organ festival, Achim Schneider, marble machine, marble run, chain reaction, tinkering, pirate ship, Lücking family, set up, pallets, rolling, kugelbahn, wooden ball, countdown, mechanisms, collaboration, installation, prototyping, everyday materials
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