The Exploratorium's Learning Studio blog | A workshop for tinkering with technology, science, and art » marbles http://apps.exploratorium.edu/blogs/ls Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:59:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Marble Machines – training with the Explainers http://apps.exploratorium.edu/blogs/ls/2009/09/28/marble-machines-training-with-the-explainers/ http://apps.exploratorium.edu/blogs/ls/2009/09/28/marble-machines-training-with-the-explainers/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:44:57 +0000 Luigi http://apps.exploratorium.edu/blogs/ls/?p=605 As has become a sort of yearly tradition, we hosted a three-hour training with the new batch of Field Trip Explainers, who will be starting to work on the museum floor in a couple of weeks. This is a particularly fun and creative group to work with: their ideas are always clever, the mood happy, and the insights that transpire in the “debriefing” session afterward always worth listening to and taking note of.

Click on the image below to be taken to a gallery of their work and creations:

Marble Machines training


And here’s a sweet video of their wonderful contraptions:


]]> http://apps.exploratorium.edu/blogs/ls/2009/09/28/marble-machines-training-with-the-explainers/feed/ 3 Marble elevators http://apps.exploratorium.edu/blogs/ls/2009/04/20/marble-elevators/ http://apps.exploratorium.edu/blogs/ls/2009/04/20/marble-elevators/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:53:06 +0000 Luigi http://apps.exploratorium.edu/blogs/ls/?p=417 In a parallel line of development, we are playing around with marbles and chain reaction elements. One of the problems that we’re constantly facing is how to work against gravity. It’s easy enough for a marble to roll down an incline, but how do you bring it back up? Here are two solutions Walter came up with.

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