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Exploring some interesting potential build systems with the Playing with the Sun Team at Dokk1. #tinkering

Really beautiful work by Kai from Vilvite in Bergen. The prop is made from wire and balloon.#tinkering #Ecsite

Sumi ink drawing, a beautiful and classic example of collective creativity in the #tinkering space at #ECSITE.

Erik's Strawbees shark tries to eat Luigi! #tinkering ##ECSITE.

Proud that a #tinkering activity I made back at MIT helped spark a new idea for an AI activity in the playful mind of Erik from Strawbees. Its wonderful to be part of a "scene" of play designers! #ECSITE

The sunlight was variable in yesterday's workshops with solar critters at #ECSITE, which is ideal because it makes changes in power tangible. #tinkering

Lots of playful anthropomorphising going on in the playing with the sun workshops, and mounting of the pen on the drive wheel doesn't spray ink everywhere. #tinkering

"The three-legged teenager" from the art and #tinkering workshop at #ECSITE, with offset wheels.

Colleagues from the #ECSITE session on Art and #Tinkering invented this critter when she started climbing over obstacles.

5 minute solar bug prototype for #ECSITE Session on art and #tinkering.

Happy to be at #ECSITE representing Aaarhus, the pirate city! Aaar, Matey! #tinkering

Liam's air tubes make for a nicely adjustable motor arm. #tinkering

Kyocera 6v 2.5F. Retrimmed 20 Ohms, comes in at about 3 minutes to 2 sec between pulses. Small package too. I think this is my favorite.

6v 1.5F takes 1:25 to 2 secs. 2 takes about 2.5.Still 18 ohm.

3.5F ic 5.5v at 15 ohm trim pot takes 3.10 to get to 2 secs. 2 of them take 2:47. Something fishy. Retrimmed pot to pulse at full (18.6), pushes seem more robust and got 6 mins plus. Single 3:10.

2.5 F kyocera takes about 3.5 mins to get down to 1 pulse per 2 seconds on a 2,7v trigger with trim pot at 15Ohms. Pulses seem kinda weak though?

Removing back cover of the gear motor, filing down the tube, and cutting a notch in panel side allows epoxy to hopefully do the rest. Now where to put all these damn electronics?

An important question is how does this attach to children's creations? Kara suggested this experiment. #tinkering

A prototype hand chargeable solar engine driven...thingy. #tinkering

About 19 Ohms with two 2.5F caps in parallel gives about 3 minutes. If start with continuous running, you get about 1 min. 20 before pulses get to 2 secs each.

@alxd I'm using it as a kind of provocation for design work on toys that invite children to explore sustainability through play. https://hedge.amosamos.net/ko-n7OvNTri1rDH5aiLg9Q#

Not sure what I got this pot set to, but I've got about 3.5 mins run time before the pulse rate drops to about every 2 seconds.

Well I did my best to make a solar powered human sized drawing machine for #markmakingmay, but in the end the mark was rather small. :) Perhaps I'll try again next May! #tinkering

@alxd yep, solarpunk. Thanks for heads up on SSL troubles. Https://www.amosamos.net should work. :)