Teach me to make provides science workshops and classes for all ages. Our popular electronics and mechanics workshops for children encourage tinkering: taking things apart, building whimsical contraptions using salvaged components, recycled objects and inexpensive supplies, and repurposing contraptions to different needs. Using both an artistic and technical approach, each child is guided and encouraged in the way best suited to their way of thinking. Our bilingual instructors are further able to engage and mentor children of varied backgrounds.
Making movable art and robotics a little easier with ArduinoBy Laura Case, Contra Costa Times link to the article
With a personality all their own, Charlie Chaplain and Carmen Miranda
Judy Castro doesn't have a background in engineering. But with Arduino, she doesn't need one to make her sculptures move, light up or breathe fire. The San Francisco artist uses the microcontroller and software program to create interactive works of art -- something she once might have paid an electrical engineer thousands of dollars to do.
Arduino, the 6-year-old, user-friendly microcontroller, is emerging as a powerful, popular tool for artists and others in the Do-It-Yourself community. Arduino can be as small as your pinkie finger and can cost less than $30, but it can light up a few LEDs for the beginning programmer or, with the help of amplifiers and mechanical parts, turn on a hydraulic ram that will lift tons, ignite a flamethrower or create a light show that can illuminate a stadium.
"When I started tinkering with Arduino, it was very easy to understand," she says. "It's actually a lot of fun to work with without being frustrating so you can focus on the aesthetics of your piece rather than the coding."
In addition to its low cost, Arduino's open source nature -- which allows people to share their work -- is moving the microcontroller out of the realm of hackers and artists and into the hands of hobbyists young and old, says Make Magazine Associate Publisher Dan Woods. Unlike other tools, he notes, Arduino wasn't made for geeks.photo by Susan Tripp Pollard
Lift Conference Geneva 2010. Our Tinkering workshop was sponsored by the IEC
Teach me to Make conducted a tinkering workshops in Israel and Geneva 2010
In the workshop, we taught concepts and techniques of tinkering to develop collaboration, creativity, innovation, and imagination while building electrical and kinetic contraptions.The conference theme of "Connected people" will be the motivation for the participants to build out of a semi-random collection of ill-suited junk and components they must salvage.
Please consider helping Teach me to Make attend these important conferences.
Events
Exploratorium Museum of Science and Perception images 2011
Tinkering Studio at the Exploratorium video 2011
Oakland Museum, Chabot Space & Science Center, The Best of the East Bay 2009
Lift + Fing France Conference 2009
Tinkering & Chain Reaction Construction Workshop, video
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