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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...


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...


Creating Origami to Explore the Connections Between Craft, Biology, and Engineering
Explore folding patterns in nature through origami and paper folding. Check out the activity guide: Folding Instructions (Video): Photo...


How to Create Code you can Eat!
*Check out the Instructables post for this project: https://www.instructables.com/Code-You-Can-Eat/ * Recently I've been obsessed with...


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...
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