AmosLightnin

My colleague Mathias made this guy with only a panel and motor - it turns until it's too shaded and then stops. Could we make a clock - a solar powered sundial - out of this?

I'm excited about the rich aesthetic and functional potential of wire in cardboard. #tinkering

3 iterations of using wire to make solar panels positionable.

Trying to figure out what size cap this drill needs to start from solar panels. Supercaps are rather spendy.

Cordless (and battery-less) drill. #tinkering

Cardboard that keeps its shape with wire, for motor mount flanges on solar drawing machines / critters. #tinkering

Needs better drive wheels and universal mounts for panels and motors. But it has character in abundance. #tinkering

Experiments with Solar bug activity for playing with the Sun. #tinkering

Secured with: wire tightened around panel going through tube joint. Or super glue?

Tentacle mount similar to flexipod, motor permanent mounted on end.

2 new design goals for drawing with the sun: 1.Motor hub to cardboard adapter to enable custom cut wheels. 2. Multi angle motor mount attach points (bendable metal strips?

I think the variation I thought was due to motors was more due to the clips shading bottom sections of the panels. #tinkering

I believe this is a 1.85 v or maybe 2. You can see even in full sun it struggles to get around when rotating through shadow.

Not much difference between 2.4 volt and 2.7 volt trigger (right) on these. Most variation seems to be in motors #tinkering

"Another common and mistaken idea hidden in the word 'learning' is that learning and doing are different kinds of acts." -John Holt #tinkering

Was reminded today of an instructable I made pushing the boundaries of the medium to better show the emotional and improvisational nature of the creative process. #tinkering https://www.instructables.com/Turn-an-RC-plane-into-an-RC-boat/

Onboarding Dokk1 Playing with the Sun design team with classic art machines. Lots of good reflections on childhood play experiences. #tinkering

Realized that removing the seal ring and just shaping the wire around the seal ring channel of the bottle neck makes a smoother bearing. Still need better blades though. #tinkering

"So that's the reason the windmills have 3 propellers." #tinkering

How to make your Ikea Kura children's bed in to a large guinea pig hutch. https://www.instructables.com/IKEA-Kura-Childrens-Bed-Guinea-Pig-Cage/ #ikeahacks

"When we consider the phenomenon of collective creativity, which combines all these drops of individual creativity that frequently are insignificant in themselves, we readily understand what an enormous percentage of what has been created by humanity is a product of the anonymous collective creative work of un- known inventors." L. Vygotsky #tinkering

Me and the kids converted an IKEA Kura child's bed into a large guinea pig cage. #tinkering

First run windparade setup in Dokk1,a Playing with the Sun activity. #tinkering

3 Generations of invented creatures on the same evolutionary line, oldest to newest.

3/3 The 3rd generation retains the head and neck of its predecessor but elaborates on the round body and adds triangular spikes to the back. Made by two students at Aarhus University. #tinkering