tinkering

Experimenting with Turning an Ultrasonic Cleaner into an Ultrasonic Knife

Experimenting with Turning an Ultrasonic Cleaner into an Ultrasonic Knife

Follow along as a curious maker tries to turn an ultrasonic cleaner into an ultrasonic cutting knife.

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Weekend Watch: Tinkering and Stop Motion with Dina Amin

Weekend Watch: Tinkering and Stop Motion with Dina Amin

A young Egyptian product designer deconstructs and stop-motion animates her tinkering for entertainment, inspiration, and education.

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What I Learned Building a Mechanized Spinning Musical Instrument

What I Learned Building a Mechanized Spinning Musical Instrument

The hexachord is a mechanized, spinning musical instrument that creates the music of a small string ensemble.

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Talkin’ Tinkering with the Masters of Automata

Talkin’ Tinkering with the Masters of Automata

The Exploratorium Tinkering Studio invites all of you to join a Google Hangout this Friday, November 21st from 9am to 10:30am (Pacific time) to talk about one of their true specialties—Automata!—with some of their favorite masters of this art/technology. Joining the Tinkering Studio team will be a star-studded group: Artist Keith Newstead (whose pieces are at the top […]

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I [heart] The Art of Tinkering

I [heart] The Art of Tinkering

We at MAKE love The Tinkering Studio at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, so when we heard that its directors, Karen Wilkinson and Mike Petrich, were going to capture their community of artists and engineers (“Tinkerers”) into the pages of a book called The Art of Tinkering, we couldn’t wait to get our hands on it. And you know what? They have exceeded my very high hopes for what they’d create.

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