Tinkering: Kids Learn by Making Stuff, from Maker Media, is great for parents or educators who have some experience tinkering and are looking for ideas for projects and advice on improving a tinkering workshop and fostering a culture of exploration. Author Curt Gabrielson draws on his extensive experience as a tinkering teacher at the Community...
Month: June 2017
Tinker Bell is, guess what, a tinkerer
If all you know of Tinker Bell is the spot of light in the play or the wordless sprite in the 1953 film, the modern Disney machine has transformed her into, wait for it, a tinkerer. In a 2008 reboot and many subsequent movies, books, games, etc., Tinker Bell is now a representative of a...
New 14″ bandsaw for Tinkering LA camp
Don over at Westwood Power Tools generously discounted a new Steel City 14″ bandsaw to our Tinkering School. Westwood Power Tool is located at 4824 Sepulveda Blvd, Culver City, CA 90230 https://www.westwoodpowertools.net/ Don.Westwoodpowertools
I met him on Portabello Road in London
I met him on Portabello road. From the outside he looked quite contemporary. Then I had a peek beyond the shiny plastic facade. A Woolworth’s, 16″ tool box circa 1990. Inside I spotted some telltale old tin containers and a hand-worn awl. I shook a couple tins and felt their heft. I knew he had...
Why Art is important to Tinkering
S.T.E.M. requires imagination and creative thought. The Arts afford easy access to creativity. That place where fragile ideas are born and cultivated, where we form connections between disparate ideas. Creating a safe harbor where chances and innovation reside is a crucial step in any Design Engineering process. Most every venture into Tinkering starts with a...