Tag Archives: cardboard automata
8Mar/12No comments
Beyond the museum: Tinkering with Cardboard Automata
Posted by Luigi
Lately in the Tinkering Studio we’ve been thinking about how to translate the work that we do in the museum to settings like after school programs and community centers. Cardboard Automata is one of our most “venerable” activities: it started … Continue reading
30Aug/10No comments
From our friends at Cabaret Mechanical Theatre ~ Paul Spooner’s Mechanisms Booklet
Posted by Karen
Sarah sent word of a booklet Paul created about mechanisms used in his automata that’s now available online. Every automata enthusiast is sure to treasure this little 18 page gem! You can download it from Cabaret’s site for the next … Continue reading
19Feb/094 comments
Tinkering with monks: cardboard automata video
Posted by Luigi
Three days of tinkering with Tibetan monks condensed in three minutes of video. Enjoy! You can read all about the cardboard automata activity, as we implemented with with the monks, in these posts.
24Jan/094 comments
Thoughts on a design-based activity
Posted by Luigi
One of our goals for presenting the automata activity was to encourage the workshop participants to construct their own understanding about mechanisms by first observing motion machine models, then discussing their ideas about the ways they worked, and ultimately, building … Continue reading
22Jan/092 comments
Cardboard automata workshop
Posted by Luigi
We started the first workshop by giving the monks a challenge: we divided them into groups of 6, and gave them an example of cardboard automata movement, but we covered up the mechanism that made that movement possible. We instructed … Continue reading
