Tinkering is about hands-on experiences, learning from failures, and unstructured time to explore and invent. And through the processes of exploration and invention lies the potential for innovation. (Tinkerlab.com)

Tinkerer: one who experiments with materials and ideas to fully understand their capacities, and who further iterates on their learning to find better solutions to current problems.

I have not failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work - Thomas Edison

Tinkering is a 21st century literacy and is a key reproductive practice of contemporary culture. (Designing Techno Culture)

TINKERING?

Using simple conductivity for human-machine interactionhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oeq4MU1AlDs&hl=en_US&fs=1&

Lucky Dragons - Make a Babyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFwi1zF5RoQ

Lucky Dragons - Make a BabyPatching Zone - Plantas Parlantas

Short demo of the most useless but pleasant interface everlet’s hope this works

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtILLr2uCFQ

Start at 0:30sec

Daft Hanger (start at 0:30) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtu0U1d2jWM

Let’s Play:

http://gambolio.com/#/game-play:21323/http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/10409759/http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/2543877/ http://www.gamesbutler.com/game/6164/Greeny_Gap/http://www.onebuttongames.com/games/13/space-is-key-2.html

20ish mins

or even bigger better stronger http://youtu.be/5XjZ2MFmYjk

next: - go bigger- make it harder to use- go multiplayer

- design for emotion

- make something better, fix something

45 min (maybe a bit more)> shoot a 1 min demo for your blogs

Using all Makey Makey functionalitysome tutorials (we’ll keep it simple for now…)

https://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/388https://github.com/sparkfun/makeymakey

What is Scratch, and what can I do with it?Scratch is a programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations. In the process of designing and programming Scratch projects, young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

- Designed for 8-16 year olds, great for non-coders- to create a fun method for learning to code (important 21st cent literacy)- Invented in 2003 by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Medialab- Makey Makey compatible!

Let’s break down an example and look at this up close

Some resources

http://scratch.mit.edu/help/ general help page with resources

http://scratch.mit.edu/help/cards help cards with examples

http://bit.ly/1esrYeS getting started guide

http://scratch.mit.edu/starter_projects/ ..or just steal something else

NowExplore the scratch functionality a bit, make some simple interactions. Use your makey!

Then If we can go on after lunch, let’s design ourselves a homemade project, from scratch ;)