Tinkering

Tinkering is customizing software and stuff; making new combinations of things that work better than their parts; and discovering new capabilities in or uses for existing products.

Boing Boing 2009

Tinkering is an absolute! on 22 Feb 2009 at 9: 03 am Joan

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I'm a contract computer scientist by trade, but I'm the founder of something called the Tinkering School.

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I'm a contract computer scientist by trade, but I'm the founder of something called the Tinkering School.

Gever Tulley on 5 dangerous things for kids Gever Tulley 2007

I'm a contract computer scientist by trade, but I'm the founder of something called the Tinkering School.

Gever Tulley on 5 dangerous things for kids Gever Tulley 2007

"Tinkering" with the system can have "drastic and devastating effects," Ms. Dowdell said, pointing to the carve-out for the newly invigorated Xanadu mega-retail project at the Meadowlands.

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In the upstairs space, showroom-style partitions greet visitors to each section (given names like "Tinkering", "Superforming",

Londonist DeanN 2010

Tinkering offers a way of engaging with today's needs while also keeping an eye on the future consequences of our choices.

Boing Boing 2009

Tinkering, in contrast, is bottom-up, iterative, experimental, practical and improvisational: informal and disorganized, accessible to anyone who is willing to learn (and fail) and it doesn't follow any plan too closely.

Boing Boing 2009

His new book Intelligent Tinkering: Bridging the Gap between Science and Practice will be published in August 2011 by Island Press.

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