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#LightUpPopUpTober Cardboard Automata

#LightUpPopUpTober Cardboard Automata

Ryan JenkinsNovember 7, 2025chibitronics, paper circuits, automata, popuptober, lightuppoptober, keith allen, automata global tinkering workshop, fi henshall, cabaret mechanical theatre, scatter, light, LEDs, disco ball, cranky contraptions, switch, homemade switch, rob ives

Spatial Chat Tinkering Workshop: Hack your House

Spatial Chat Tinkering Workshop: Hack your House

Ryan JenkinsNovember 5, 2025spatialchat, online workshop, clean conferencing institute, maker parties, hack your house, tinkering workshop, hands-on, educators, professional development, making, tinkering

Remembering Norman Tuck

Remembering Norman Tuck

Delightful Dirigibles Prototyping

Delightful Dirigibles Prototyping

Creative Learning Festival in Milan

Creative Learning Festival in Milan

Solar Sculptures at the Naturwerkstatt Breisach

Solar Sculptures at the Naturwerkstatt Breisach

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

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