Tag Archives: open make
30Mar/121 comment
Al Belleveau’s Toolbox
Posted by Karen
Al works as a blacksmith in Northern Minnesota. I became aware of his work through the Headwaters Science Center years ago, where he made a dinosaur for an old friend, Laddie Elwell (the Center’s founder). As I was researching for … Continue reading
Tagged as: Al Belleveau, blacksmith, metal, minnesota, open make, tools, welding
26Mar/12No comments
Tool Dissection at Open Make: Tools
Posted by Ryoko
Hello, once again, I am going to blog about our Tool Dissection activity. As I have posted several times (1, 2, 3) about our preparation for the event, at Open Make:Tools, we finally tried the activity with visitors! (click to … Continue reading
25Mar/12No comments
Plastic Fusing at OpenMAKE: Tools
Posted by lianna
For OpenMAKE: Tools we revisited one of our classic activities – plastic fusing! I was particularly interested in doing this activity for tools for two main reasons. The first is that I liked using a common tool (irons) in an … Continue reading
1Mar/121 comment
Know your drill bits (inside and out)
Posted by Karen
In honor of Ryoko’s first power drill disassembly, I thought I’d share this article from MAKE on getting started with Power Tools. It’s for those of us who like to read instruction manuals before breaking into the packaging to “fix” … 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
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/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
2Feb/122 comments
Balancing Toys
Posted by Ryan
It all started with a bear on a unicycle. As one of the activities for this month’s toy theme, the classic “Ernest the Bear” inspired us to work with visitors, helping them create their own balancing toys. We first spent … Continue reading
Tagged as: balancing, ernest the bear, open make, open make toys, prototypes, scultures, toys
19Jan/12No comments
Open MAKE workshop: Accessorize with Toys
Posted by Luigi
If you come to our Open MAKE: Toys event this Saturday, you’ll get the chance to participate in an awesome workshop called Accessorize with Toys. Featured Makers emiko oye and Shana Astrachan are two independent artists, both working with re-purposed … Continue reading
