Monthly Archives: April 2009
30Apr/091 comment
Chain Reaction training
Posted by Luigi
In preparation for the upcoming Maker Faire booth, in which we will be hosting a community-built chain reaction event, we had the pleasure of trying out the activity with the Exploratorium explainers. Due to their busy schedule and the need … Continue reading
27Apr/091 comment
Chain Reaction – Vergnuggets
Posted by Sebastian
The first chain reaction experiments. After spending some time with those setups and filming them, they became little stories with actors to me. The happy “little kicker” scoring two goals at once, the brave “jump into a tiny pool”, and … Continue reading
20Apr/093 comments
Marble elevators
Posted by Luigi
In a parallel line of development, we are playing around with marbles and chain reaction elements. One of the problems that we’re constantly facing is how to work against gravity. It’s easy enough for a marble to roll down an … Continue reading
Tagged as: chain reaction, contraption, elevator, linkage, marbles, mechanism, motor, Video
14Apr/092 comments
Scratch development: telephortunes
Posted by Luigi
Recently, we have been wanting to become more familiar with an interesting technology from MIT called Scratch: it’s a new programming language that makes it easy to create interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art. Designed to help young people … Continue reading
