Tag Archives: contraptions
4May/11No comments
Amazing Marble Machines
Posted by Ryan
We’ve been playing with marble machines for the past month or so and will continue to ‘plus’ the activity for the rest of May and June. Aiona sent us these amazing examples of incredibly intricate marble contraptions. Like our favorite … Continue reading
9Dec/10No comments
Wind Tubes: The Movie
Posted by Ryan
Just kidding…but we did try some experiments with filming simple creations floating, twirling, spinning and flying out of wind tubes in the learning studio today. We are interested in eventually getting a collection of clips that may inspire visitors to … Continue reading
3Dec/101 comment
Marble Melodies
Posted by Ryan
Ryoko experiments with marble-activated chimes. Continue reading
Tagged as: chimes, contraptions, marble fort, marble machines, marbles, music, prototype, sound
17May/10No comments
A Couple of Marble Contraptions
Posted by Ryan
Thought I’d post two videos of some of the latest prototypes for additions to the marble machine wall. Both of these seem to address some of the challenges that explainers and visitors have identified such as having one marble release … Continue reading
Tagged as: contraption, contraptions, design, legos, marble machines, marbles, mechanism, prototype, studio, Video
13May/102 comments
The Amazing Clean Up Tube
Posted by Ryan
This morning we had a training for the field trip explainers where we came up with challenges in the marble cave, like setting up the marble to bounce off three balloon trampolines, having the marble move as slow as possible … Continue reading
Tagged as: contraptions, design, explainers, marble machines, marbles, mechanism, messy, prototype, studio
2Dec/09No comments
Designing for Exploration – a collaboration with Stanford University
Posted by Sebastian
“Design for Exploration” is a Stanford University course taught in collaboration with the Exploratorium as part of what is hoped to be an ongoing partnership between the two institutions. Stanford professor John Edmark and I have worked with 15 students … Continue reading
28Jan/094 comments
Reflection contraptions
Posted by Luigi
“Failure is the pillar of success” - Tibetan proverb The next day we set the monks onto their next challenge: to construct a machine, or a kinetic contraption of some kind, based on some … Continue reading
Tagged as: building, contraptions, Gallery, india, light exploration, machines, monks, mylar, photos, reflections, sarnath
