Tag Archives: scratch
15Jun/12No comments
MaKey Makey Physical Fitness Challenge
Posted by Ryan
Since Maker Faire, we’ve been playing around with a couple of MaKey Makey boards that we got from our tinkering buddies Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum at their booth. After trying out some of their classic examples like banana piano … Continue reading
28Apr/114 comments
Arduino Class Midterm
Posted by Ryan
For the past three weeks some of us have been staying late at work, taking a introductory course on Arduino taught at the ExplOratorium by tinkering studio collaborator Michael Shiloh. For those of you who don’t really know what an … Continue reading
Tagged as: arduino, electricity, LEDs, michael shiloh, midterm, pico crickets, programming, robots, scratch, Twisted Toys
1Sep/10No comments
Explainer Skill Swaps
Posted by Ryan
Last week we did some trainings with the high school explainers at the museum so they could learn a bit about our tools, the learning studio environment and the way we approach teaching and learning. This group of explainers (who … Continue reading
4Aug/102 comments
Project Q Workshop
Posted by Ryan
Last Thursday, artist-in-residence Eric Rosenbaum from the MIT Media Lab shared his latest innovation with some of the Exploratorium community. The prototype, (so new that it only has the working title Project Q) allows a computer to interface physical switches … Continue reading
2Jul/104 comments
Real life algorithms
Posted by Luigi
Ryan and I are playing around with Scratch, once again, in preparation for the upcoming Scratch @ MIT conference. One of the ideas we are exploring is that of bringing Scratch sprites into the real world, by either printing them out, … Continue reading
19Oct/096 comments
Keyboard touchscreen and Scratch
Posted by Luigi
Adam Somlai-Fischer, creator of the soon-to-be-ubiquitous Prezi presentation software, recent Osher fellow, and all around great guy, showed us how to simply and quickly hack a cheap USB keyboard to extract the inner pressure-sensitive “film” and turn it into a … Continue reading
14Apr/092 comments
Scratch development: telephortunes
Posted by Luigi
Recently, we have been wanting to become more familiar with an interesting technology from MIT called Scratch: it’s a new programming language that makes it easy to create interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art. Designed to help young people … Continue reading
