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The rotating hand powered pen drawer was popular among the 2-5 demographic.

Human powered playthings at Dokk1 tonight! This fellow really put his arm into it. www.playingwiththesun.org

Hey @saustrup - I have a friend on mstdn.dk that says they can't see my posts. Wondering if it's a security setting? I'm running my own instance (in DK too) on a raspberry pi.

Here's a human powered toy wrecking ball, which shows signs of becoming a music machine. #tinkering #playingwiththesun

I'm still obsessed with this 1 min video of Gregory Bateson from the film 'An Ecology of Mind.' You can see it in the design of the terrain we did in Berlin workshop. How can I invite children to explore these kinds of ecological relationships?

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Yesterday with the teknologiforståelse team at Dokk1 we did R&D on PlayingwiththeSun.org activities for younger children built on Tinker Cubes. Well offer these to kids on Thursday.

@Cemocreates Yeah it's born out of that Greg Bateson statement about the lawn and horse I've been obsessed with for years. :) I'd love to make a way to explore the relationship between a creature and its terrain. I have a ways to go, but this was a fun iteration.

As we took various video and photos, we would upload them to Artivive, an AR image recognition program. So when these printed pics on the wall are viewed through the Artivive app, one can see the video play on top of the corresponding image. This allows the kids to have a record of the actions of their creations. https://www.playingwiththesun.org #tinkering

As has emerged several times, one family came upon a kind of rotating sculpture design. This one had some nice tension in that the arms would slowly drop down and begin to sweep the sand. #tinkering

In Berlin we did a two round design exercise in which the kids selected what to build in round 2 based on what was discovered in round 1. This tethered solar critter invented by two girls played a big role.

Last Friday in Berlin at PSM Gallery we did a http://PlayingWiththeSun.org recursive prompting experiment where we built a mountainous landscape covered with sand on which 5 kids could build creatures. #tinkering

Without the power pack the crank drives things a bit too fast. But a pot will mean you have to go fast to get it to go. So using packs for now (this is an activity for kindergartners). #tinkering

Experimenting playfully with new activities at Dokken.

A hand crank powered critter. #tinkering playingwiththesun.org

Perhaps a starting point for a solar creature building #tinkering activity.

#tinkering with cable crawlers powered by light and muscles.

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Here's the battery-powered Pi setup that I hope will allow me to program during power cuts.

The Pi is running on a 13,000 mAh battery pack and the 7 inch HDMI display is running on a separate 10,000 mAh battery pack.

I made a simple display stand out of cardboard and set things up on top of my cupboard. The top shelf of the cupboard is at a convenient height for my keyboard (it's a standing arrangement).

I've been given the "beware of xyz" talk from several folx but let's see how it goes.

Experimenting with AR as a means to support collective reflection in open ended design explorations. #tinkering

The design of this wheel reflects hours of work by my colleague Jane, an idea from a colleague at the library in Ballerup, and lots of iteration from me and colleagues.

Rotating solar plants. #tinkering http://playingwiththesun.org

Hmm, light tubes. #tinkering http://www.playingwiththesun.org

Great episode of Volts about putting batteries in induction stoves. The principle is the same as with water towers. The water tower handles peak load in the morning when everyone's taking showers. Then they fill it back up the rest of the day and night with a much smaller and cheaper pump than they'd otherwise need to handle the peak load. #voltspodcast

Episode webpage: https://www.volts.wtf/p/induction-stoves-with-batteries-built

The Albert Kahn Museum in France has just made available for download thousands of early autochrome photos from around the world: Kahn, a banker, had top French photographers travel the world documenting everyday aspects of global life which he believed would soon vanish as the world rapidly developed.

Such prescience.

https://www.rferl.org/a/color-photos-archive-planet-albert-kahn-history/32166970.html

@histodons #photography #autochrome

*** EDIT: The collection can be searched here, & you will have to search in French!

https://opendata.hauts-de-seine.fr/explore/dataset/archives-de-la-planete/images/?disjunctive.operateur