Monthly Archives: January 2012
Our collaborative sketchbooks are bound and ready for their official submission into the Sketchbook Project 2012. Continue reading
We have recently posted a few of our Wired 101 projects to make at home, but even a household’s best ‘junk drawer’ might not have everything needed to make an LED Circuit Card. And, as all of our instructors know, I’m super picky about our colored paper and steer clear of the mottled, gray-ish construction kind that is ubiquitous in craft stores. Science kits, blank books, hobby parts, fashion fabrics, art supplies… where do we find the good stuff? Continue reading
What a fantastic Friday! I spent it tinkering around with little motors and new electronics gadgets. I found spidery legs make a fantastic revision to our bristle-bots project; they keep it from falling over! Meet “Jalapeno” – our new office scuttle-bug… Our bristle-bot anatomy includes the head of a toothbrush, 4 paper fasteners (the spidery legs), 1 coin battery (on top of the toothbrush head), 1 vibrating page motor (the yellow mini-motor wired to the battery), double-sided foam tape, and masking tape (the small purple piece that acts as the ‘switch’) See our bristle-bot in action: Jalapeno enters the marble field…
Samantha Razook Murphy is the founder of Curious Jane and Blue Tree. She was inspired to create these unique programs to give her girls, and all girls, a chance to be creative and inventive in a high-energy, collaborative and gender-affirming space. She loves designing, tinkering and figuring out. Samantha is the mother of two girls and lives in Brooklyn, NY. She holds her BA from Yale and Masters in Industrial Design from Pratt. In her spare time she coaches volleyball and rides her bike around Brooklyn.