Monthly Archives: February 2012
29Feb/12No comments
Beyond the Museum: Tinkering with Light Painting
Posted by Ryan
We are in the process of looking at some of our favorite activities and figuring out ways to share some of our ideas about them with after-school centers and other spaces outside of the tinkering studio. Light painting is an … Continue reading
28Feb/121 comment
Making Rope from String
Posted by lianna
In preparation for OpenMAKE: Tools we’ve been playing with unusual ways of using common tools. Last week Nicole shared that you could make rope using a drill and I just had to try it. After doing some research, I realized … Continue reading
28Feb/12No comments
developing a new activity: free fall
Posted by Ryoko
I’m not sure if this is a right way to call this activity, but we tried a new activity called “Free Fall” at Open Make: Time. In this activity, people explore how things fall by dropping an object off a … Continue reading
27Feb/124 comments
Light Painting Tools
Posted by Ryan
We are in the process of brainstorming ideas for the next open make, which has the theme of tools. Light painting already lends itself to the topic, as it uses light sources and a camera as unexpected tools to make … Continue reading
Tagged as: circles, glue sticks, LEDs, light painting, open make tools, patterns, tools
26Feb/121 comment
Meet the Makers: Time
Posted by Ryan
Here are the interviews with the featured makers from last week’s event: David Forbes makes nixie tube displays. Roger Wood makes beautiful steampunk clocks. Five Ton Crane (Sean Orlando, David Shulman, Alan Rorie) make a giant raygun gothic rocketship. Julie … Continue reading
25Feb/12No comments
Open Make: Time Photo Round-Up
Posted by Ryan
While the tinkering studio’s instagrams give one unique view of the open make event, if you really want to get a sense of all the activities, artists, and makers there that day, go ahead and check out the slideshow of … Continue reading
24Feb/123 comments
Beyond the Museum: Tinkering with Scribbling Machines
Posted by lianna
Lately in the Tinkering Studio we’ve been thinking about how to translate the work we do in the museum to settings like after school programs and community centers. Scribbling Machines, which started as a PIE project activity and we’ve continued … Continue reading
23Feb/12No comments
Clock Dissection at OpenMAKE: Time
Posted by lianna
Amongst the stopping of time and capturing time going on at Open MAKE, we also explored the idea of taking apart time – or at least clocks. We set up a workshop area where visitors could choose from an array … Continue reading
22Feb/122 comments
Open MAKE: Time instagram roundup
Posted by Luigi
While waiting for our official photographs of last Saturday’s Open MAKE: Time, I thought it would be fun to share our now customary, internal instagram-off. Here are all the photos we took during the event. You can check them out … Continue reading
22Feb/12No comments
Large Scale Stop Motion at Open Make
Posted by Ryan
At the Open Make event this weekend, we set up a big cardboard surface in the webcast studio and let people make stop motion animations by moving their body around the stage. We brought out pool noodles, boxes, boas, tennis … Continue reading
Tagged as: cardboard, movie, open make, open make time, scenes, stop motion, webcast
