Tag Archives: prototype
19Aug/11No comments
Summer Camp Stop Motion Movies
Posted by Ryan
On Wednesday and Thursday afternoon we held a workshop where the Exploratorium campers made a couple of large-scale stop motion animation movies. Each of these films packed more action into their less than 15 second running time than any summer … Continue reading
Tagged as: alien attack, animation, car crash, prototype, stop motion, summer camp, timelapse
15Aug/113 comments
Life-Sized Stop Motion Tests
Posted by Ryan
When the museums is closed for the day, we are likely to play with an idea that we are thinking about trying in a future workshop or event in the Tinkering Studio. Today we tried out making some large scale … Continue reading
Tagged as: animation, juggling, life sized, prototype, space odyssey, stop motion, tests
7Aug/11No comments
pop-ups+ in progress
Posted by Ryoko
(Yay! So far everyday blog updates in this month!!) As we posted yesterday, we had the second pop-ups prototyping activity in the Tinkering Studio. I was happy to see that some High School Explainers came back after our first trial … Continue reading
25Jul/11No comments
Oscylinderscope Tests
Posted by Ryan
One of the exhibits that we currently have in the Tinkering Studio is an oscylinderscope made by former artist-in-residence Norman Tuck. Coincidentally as we were thinking about ways to add context to the exhibit by displaying prototypes and inspirations someone … Continue reading
Tagged as: guitar, inspirations, iphone, norman tuck, oscylinderscope, prototype, sebastian, tinkering, Video, webcam, youtube
4May/113 comments
Building Bathtub Boats…
Posted by kate
For April’s open:MAKE we experimented with a new activity dubbed “Build a Bathtub Boat.” The goal was to have a wood construction project that would be accessible to younger kids, starting around age five or so. It was also our … Continue reading
20Apr/112 comments
Marble Fort – Version 4.5
Posted by Ryan
In the tinkering studio, we are currently experimenting with the fourth or fifth incarnation of a pegboard environment for marble machines. We started with a bunch of small personal boards for one or two visitors to create with. The next … Continue reading
Tagged as: environment, fort, marble machines, materiality wood, niche, open make, prototype
29Mar/111 comment
Testing the Spot Welder
Posted by Ryan
In the latest of the series of videos documenting Antonio’s projects (see the phonograph and the vacuum former for the first two films in the trilogy), the learning studio crew tests out a homemade spot welder. The idea is that … Continue reading
1Feb/111 comment
The Great Juggling Disaster and more…
Posted by Sebastian
This movie was made with our new stop motion workstation at its debut at Open Make. Our first animators, Jacob and his dad Jason, used a handful of simple plastic pieces to create two excellent short films, The Great Juggling … Continue reading
19Jan/11No comments
Testing the Vacuforming Machine
Posted by Ryan
This past saturday at Open Make: Plastic, Antonio showed off his homemade vacuforming device and demonstrated techniques for bending acrylic into forks and knives. Like many of the inventions that make their way into the tinkering studio, the homemade vacuum … Continue reading
13Dec/103 comments
Ultimate Shadow Kaleidoscope
Posted by Ryan
Over the past few months we have been working with many exhibits and seeing how we can make them more playful and open-ended. A little while ago we took a tour to show each other some of our favorite exhibits … Continue reading
