If I had all the time in the world, my mornings would look like this: 7:00 Morning run 8:00 Meditation 8:15 Make a hot breakfast for my family 9:00 Sing 9:30 Write 10:15 Tinker in my workshop 11:45 Tidy But I have three little kids, a career, friends, the vibrant treasures of Los Angeles to...
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Trash and recycling in Santa Monica, CA; tinkering our way to a better planet
As you drive into Santa Monica on I-10, you’ll pass a huge American flag on the right side of the highway. This flies over Southern California Disposal, the main transfer station for all garbage produced by Santa Monica and selected surrounding neighborhoods. Take the exit and make a few rights and soon you’ll find yourself...
Book Review: Tinkering by Curt Gabrielson
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...
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...
There’s Treasure Everywhere!
I keep finding myself mentally shouting “There’s Treasure Everywhere!” It’s the title of a Calvin and Hobbes book, which like all Calvin and Hobbes, celebrates the explosive power of a child’s imagination. Calvin means it literally, as he digs holes in his backyard, and by Bill Watterson figuratively that the world is full of wonders...
Tinkering @ Home #3: The Tinkering Toolkit
by Barb Noren, Lead Tinkering Facilitator, reDiscover Center There are a few different modes of building that I’ve observed: tinkering, prototyping, and making. These modes are flexible and overlapping, but have different intentions, benefits, and challenges. Tinkering is experimentation; often open-ended, without an end goal. You may reach one, but pure tinkering doesn’t have explicit...
The Tinkering Toolkit
Updated March 2017 Originally posted on November 3, 2014 on https://paperstatic.com/tinkering-and-prototyping-materials/ There are a few different modes of building that I’ve observed: tinkering, prototyping, and making. These modes are flexible and overlapping, but have different intentions, benefits, and challenges. Tinkering is experimentation; often open-ended, without an end goal. You may reach one, but pure tinkering...