Experiments

Tinkering with Greeting Card Circuits, micro:bit, and Block-Based Code

This is a holding place for running notes about my experiments with using the micro:bit to tinker with greeting card circuits.

From Data to Art: Building a Drawing Machine Prototype with a Micro:bit and Automata Tinkering Kit

This experiment emerged as I was co-facilitating an automata tinkering workshop with Cabaret Mechanical Theatre and builds on on the...

Creating Translucent, Patterned Paper Lanterns with DIY Stamps and Oil

I learned a DIY stamp making technique from a printmaking workshop at at the Gonzales branch of the Denver Public Library ideaLABs — you...

Designing an Anklet to Help You Learn Dance Steps: A Wearable Technology Prototype

Visit the Miro board below to step through my process as I create a prototype for an anklet that might be able to help you learn dance...

From Book-Making to Jewelry: Using Pop-Up Book Mechanisms to Make Shape-Shifting Paper Earrings

I created these shape-changing paper earrings to experiment with using pop-up book mechanisms outside of books. The idea was to go from a...

Tinkering with Halloween: Making a Hack-o-Lantern with Paper Circuits and Automata Mechanisms

Each year the Tinkering Studio at the Exploratorium invites people to join in the process of making "hack-o-lanterns" where you are...

Making a Weaving Loom from a Book and Adding Conductive Threads and Circuits

While following along with a weaving-focused class taught by Laura Devendorf (check out the Unstable Design Lab!) one of the first things...

Making Abstract Art Prints with LEGO Dots and an Open Source 3D Printed Press

I'm attending the Connected Learning Summit virtual conference this week! one nice thing about virtual conferences is that you can knit,...

Paper Circuits 5 Different Ways

1. Remote controlled paper circuits with micro:bit I made these paper circuit postcards for a space exploration-themed activity at a...

Painting with electricity

When you combine an electrolyte solution with different voltages, you can create a rainbow of colors on titanium metal. Here, I'm using a...

3D Printing on Fabric: Inspirations and Experiments

3D printing and fabric are two materials that I had never considered combining until I saw this tutorial from Make Magazine. 3D printed...

Recreating the Foot of a Wooly Mammoth for Outreach Education

A few years ago a farmer in Iowa discovered the skeletal remains of a wooly mammoth on his property! Local students and archaeologists...