Year: 2013

Math Mondays Goes to Bridges

Math Mondays Goes to Bridges

Last weekend, the Math Mondays crew traveled to Enschede, The Netherlands, to attend the annual Bridges conference. If you’re a serious math maker and don’t know about Bridges, you should. It’s a meeting that draws 200-400 people, all focused on the connections between mathematics and art, and the folks there create some seriously amazing objects that are often stunningly beautiful and which subsume often deep and surprising mathematical themes. Over the next several weeks Math Mondays will present a travelogue of sorts of the incredible objects — and people — you can encounter at Bridges.

Maker Camp Kicks off DIY Music Week

Maker Camp Kicks off DIY Music Week

Week five of Maker Camp is all about making music—with whatever you’ve got. Like a banana. Today we’ll get to learn (and listen) how to do just that with MaKey MaKey co-creator Jay Silver. MaKey MaKey connects to your computer and… to you! Or bananas! Or whatever you can think of! It also connects to Scratch, a fun and free programming language (scratch.mit.edu), and allows you to play games and control animations, all via your own controllers or fruit instruments. Today’s hangout will also include a very special guest: Damian Kulash, lead singer and guitarist of the band OK Go joins to jam with Jay on a fruit instrument of his own design.