Exploratorium After Dark Offers a Sneak Peek of Maker Faire
At SF’s weekly nerdfest, Exploratorium After Dark, we got a preview of nine great makers and their exhibits that you’ll see this weekend at Maker Faire Bay Area.
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Bike Contraption Whistles with the Movement of the Tide
This art project at the San Francisco Exploratorium uses an old Huffy bike, a shipping container, and the tide to imitate Bosun’s whistle.
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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.
Tinkering Social Club Kicks off by Taking Things Apart
The Exploratorium in San Francisco is one the best science museums in the world because it takes a delightfully hands-on and out-of-the-box approach to learning. And in line with their creative approach to education, they’re launching the “Tinkering Social Club” this Thursday evening.
Tomorrow: Saturday, April 21: Young Makers/Open MAKE at the Exploratorium
Tomorrow, Saturday, April 21 from 10am-2pm, we will enjoy the final Open MAKE at the Exploratorium before Maker Faire. In fact, it’ll be our last Open MAKE at the original site of the Exploratorium before the museum moves to the piers. (Sniff!) So you have many reasons to “dump” everything else you are doing and […]
Open MAKE: Tools – Licking Machines, Conductive Ink, and Lost Gold
At Open MAKE: Tools, mechanical wonders, painted circuitry, legendary lost gold, lockpicking for kids, and other fun stuff.
Photos From Open MAKE: Tools at the Exploratorium in SF
You are sorry if you missed Saturday’s Open MAKE at the Exploratorium, which had the theme of “Tools,” because it was totally fun.
