Discover Your Inner Tinker! 150+ Makers Reveal Their Secrets

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Get ready for some serious fun with the creative geniuses of the Exploratorium Tinkering Studio who believe that following your curiosity can lead to amazing moments of discovery. In The Art of Tinkering, they invite you to better understand how the world works. You’ll meet 150 makers and artists and learn how they do it—their favorite tools, materials, and prototypes—and the stories of how they found a method that works for them. Then you’ll get your “hands dirty” and embark on your own explorations and tinkerings.   Make Your Mark with Machines   • Paint with a chromatic typewriter.   • Tell a complex story with a DIY automaton.   • Astonish others with a chain-reaction machine.   Tinker with Toys   • Deconstruct your toys to see what makes them tick.   • Craft life-like puppets out of cardboard and broken toys.   • Build electrical circuits out of sculpting clay.   Light It Up   • Compose works of art with LEDs.   • Make your own stroboscopic camera.   • Use electroluminescent wire to craft light-up apparel.