Tag Archives: switches
2Oct/12No comments
Scribbling Machines With HS Explainers
Posted by Ryan
On Sunday, we held a training with the new batch of high school explainers. For the first experience with our group, they spent some time making and building and then we reflected together on the process they went through as … Continue reading
26Sep/11No comments
Tinkering 101, day 2: circuits explorations
Posted by Luigi
Day 2 of our Tinkering 101 workshop began with some explorations of circuits, electricity, and switches. We split the group in two, with half the participants diving right into an activity we like to call Toy Take-Apart: you get a … Continue reading
28Jul/11No comments
Pop-Up Prototypes
Posted by Ryan
In the Learning Studio we’ve been doing some prototyping and experimenting with making pop-up books. As a first introduction to paper folding a few months back, Paul S. showed us some basic techniques and since then we’ve been looking at … Continue reading
Tagged as: circuits, copper tape, LEDs, musical bench, oscylinderscope, pop up, popup, prototypes, switches
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
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
