
Featured Tinkerer
Celeste Moreno
Celeste designs and researches creative learning experiences for learners of all ages that combine tools and ideas from multiple disciplines such as computing, art, and science.
Featured Blog Post: Light Painting Glove

We often invite artists, scientists, educators, and jacks-of-all-trades to co-develop ideas, activities, and learn about new technologies. Learn more about these tinkerers, their work, and their involvement with the Tinkering Studio.
Abdulrahman Idlbi
Abdulrahman designs creative learning activities and environments with a...
Adam Tobin
When he was five or six years old, Adam discovered masking tape. Realiz...
Adrian Freed
Adrian Freed is Research Director of UC Berkeley's Center for New Music ...
Ahra Jo
Ahra Jo is a learning designer with an academic background in spatial de...
Aiko Cuneo
Aiko Cuneo is an artist and arts educator. For over thirty years she worked...
Alice Wingwall
When noted photographer and sculptor Alice Wingwall began losing her sight,...
Amy Van Nostrand
Amy Van Nostrand is a designer who makes large scale structures from cardbo...
Ana Serrano
Born in Los Angeles in 1983, Ana Serrano uses cardboard to create work that...
Andrew Lyndon
Andrew is an Oakland-based videographer, animator, and filmmaker who mak...
Angela Haseltine Pozzi
Angela was born in Portland, Oregon to a family of artists. Angela’s e...
Ann Weber
California artist Ann Weber transforms the ordinary medium of cardboard ...
Artemis Papert
Artemis Papert is an artist creating art in both traditional — ma...
Asia Ward
Asia Ward is a Program Specialist and Artist in Residence for the Learning ...
Bárbara Yarza
Bárbara is a Mexican designer and educator who loves discovering and ma...
Becca Rose
Becca Rose is an artist and educator from the UK. Her work is geared around...
Benjamin Cowden
Benjamin Cowden began working with metal during an undergraduate anthrop...
Bernie Lubell
Bernie creates interactive sculptural installations based on his studies...
Bernie Zubrowski
Bernie is a Senior Scientist for Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), ...
Brad Prather
Brad Prather is a folk artist and contraption-maker from Petaluma Californi...
Brian Silverman
Since the late 1970s, Brian Silverman has been involved in the invention...
Bruce Shapiro
Bruce Shapiro is a motion control artist, science educator, and the fath...
Caine Monroy
Caine is a lifelong maker and entrepreneur. At the age of 8, he created ...
Cardboard Institute of Technology
The Cardboard Institute of Technology (C.I.T.) engaged the Exploratorium wi...
Carlos Zapata
Carlos is a self-taught artist who has found unique ways of expressing h...
Carmelo Presicce
Carmelo loves to tinker with physical and computational materials, prefe...
Casey Federico
Casey is a consultant and trainer to preschool programs and the Tin...
Cathy McEver
Cathy McEver lives in Oakland, California, a city that exemplifies the p...
Celeste Moreno
Celeste designs and researches creative learning experiences for learner...
Charles Sowers
Charles is an artist and exhibit developer at the Exploratorium who has bee...
Chris Bell
Chris was born in Sydney, Australia in 1966. Two years study in Industri...
Cynthia Solomon
Cynthia Solomon is an American computer scientist known f...
Dana Schloss
Dana is a prototype and exhibit developer for science and children’s m...
Danny Scheible
First attracted to masking tape because of its versatile, accessible, an...
David Cole
David loves anything that comes in a fitted, wooden box. He collects machin...
David Forbes
David Forbes is a mostly self-taught electrical engineer. He has been worki...
Diane Willow
Diane is a multi-modal artist. Working at the intersection of art, science,...
Douglas Repetto
Douglas is an artist and teacher. His work, including sculpture, installati...
Edith Ackermann
Dr. Edith Ackermann was a professor of developmental psychology, who wor...
Elizabeth Falkner
Besides running restaurants, Elizabeth Falkner loves culinary competition a...
emiko oye & Shana Astrachan
emiko oye and Shana Astrachan are professional jewelry artists working w...
Eric Rosenbaum
Eric Rosenbaum loves to tinker with music. He recently completed his doc...
Eric Stackpole & David Lang
Eric Stackpole and David Lang, have created OpenROV, an open-source, low...
Eun Young Park
Eun Young Park is a Helsinki-based media/product designer and artist who...
Evil Mad Scientist
EvilMadScientist are Windell and Lenore. ...
Five Ton Crane
The Five Ton Crane Arts Group is a full service design / build / consult...
Gautham Dayal and Vanya Sahi
Gautham and Vanya enjoy facilitating experiences where people (children and...
Ge Wang
An Assistant Professor at Stanford University in the Center for Computer...
Grace Kim
Grace Kim is a San Francisco based wearable technology designer....
Hanoch Piven
The colorful and witty collage portraits of Israeli artist Hanoch Piven hav...
Hernán Lira
Hernán Lira began making toys and puppetsat the age of 16. He is inspir...
I-Wei Huang
With over a decade of game industry experience, I-Wei Huang is currently...
Iris Gottlieb
Iris Gottlieb is an observer, illustrator, collector, printmaker, and layma...
Jason “Jay” Broemmel
Jay is a metal fabricator who builds mutant bicycles. A native of the Centr...
Jay Silver
Jay Silver is an electrical engineer and toy inventor from Cocoa Beach, ...
Jeremy Mayer
Jeremy Mayer disassembles typewriters of all vintages then reassembles the ...
Jesse Roadkill
Jesse “Roadkill” Wilson is a multi media artist with a passion for teac...
Jessica Hobbs
People have often described Jessica Hobbs as someone trying to lead a compu...
Jessica Strick
Jessica Strick is an exhibit developer at the Exploratorium. ...
Jie Qi
Jie loves to make things that blend paper craft and personal expression ...
Juanita Schlaepfer-Miller
Juanita started as an apprentice in the machine shop the Exploratorium, and...
Judy Castro
Judy is an artist and designer working with textiles, metal, industrial mat...
Julie Chen
Julie Chen is an internationally known book artist who has been publishing ...
Kazu Harada
At age 35, Japanese-born Kazu Harada began making automata as a hobby. ...
Keina Konno
Keina Konno is an interaction designer / engineer at Yamaguchi Cent...
Keith Braafladt
Keith Braafladt’s work has focused on the intersection of art, technol...
Keith Newstead
Keith studied at Barking College of Art and Technology. After short-live...
Ken Murphy
Ken Murphy is a musician, tinkerer, and jack of all trades. He mentored ...
Kristen Murray
Kristen is an engineer, educator, and artist who works with youth of all ag...
Krys Bobrowski
Krys Bobrowski is a sound artist and musician. ...
Lanny Smoot
During his early career, Lanny held leadership positions in communications ...
Leah Buechley
Leah Buechley is a designer, engineer, artist, and educator whose work expl...
Leigh Anne Langwell
Leigh Anne is a visual artist who uses the interplay of light and shadow to...
Liz Keim
Liz Keim, Director of Cinema Arts and Senior Curator, initiated the Expl...
Lucas Keijning
Making science fun and accessible is what Lucas likes best. In his exper...
Luisa Beck
Luisa likes to think about ways to make the unfamiliar familiar. How can...
Marek Michalowski
Dr. Marek Michalowski is a roboticist working at the intersection of eng...
Margaret Minsky
Dr. Margaret Minsky creates multimedia artifacts exploring learning, imp...
Matmos
Matmos is an experimental electronic music duo originally from San Francisc...
Matt Smith
Matt Smith was born in 1965 in Leicestershire, England. After attending var...
Michael Brown
Michael Brown is a sculptor, designer and installation artist who has been ...
Michael Shiloh
Michael Shiloh has a BSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, an...
Michael Swaine
Michael Swaine is an inventor and designer working in many media. He has co...
Mike Sheldrake
Mike makes righteous surfboards out of cardboard....
Moxie Lieberman
Moxie is an artist, fiber pusher, and human being. She enjoys conceptual...
Natalie Rusk
Natalie Rusk, Research Specialist at the MIT Media Lab, focuses on the deve...
Nathan Rabinovitch
Nathan is a tinkering resident with the Brazilian Creative Learning Netw...
Nathan Sawaya
Nathan Sawaya is a New York-based artist who creates awe-inspiring works...
Ned Kahn
Ned Kahn, an artist who has a background in environmental science, explores...
Nemo Gould
Nemo Gould was born to artist parents in 1975, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. N...
Nicole Catrett
Nicole is an artist, inventor and tinkerer. She uses a mix of art, scien...
Noga Elhassid
Noga Elhassid, is an Israeli artist who created a workshop designed to t...
Norman Tuck
As a child, Norman loved building things, especially airplane models made o...
Paul Nosa
Paul Nosa draws a lot. Creating a line is a balance between intention and r...
Paul Spooner
Paul Spooner was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1948. He had mechanical ...
Paul Tatter
Paul Tatter grew up in a dairy-farming town. His parents were Czech immi...
Paula Bontá
Paula is a co-Founder of the Playful Invention Company (PICO). She holds...
Ricardo Nemirosvky
Ricardo Nemirovsky has a background in physics, which he studied in his ...
Ricarose Roque
Ricarose designs tools and experiences that enable people, especially yo...
Robbie Berg
Robbie is professor of physics at Wellesley College studying how people ...
Roger Wood
Roger Wood is a self-taught artist who lives and works in a former flower s...
Ryan Kurada
Ryan Kurada is passionate about making learning relevant, mean...
Saul Griffith
Saul Griffith is the Founder / Principal Scientist at Other Lab, where he f...
Scott Weaver
Scott Weaver's family has lived in San Francisco for 3 generations. Scot...
Scout Tran-Caffee
Originally trained as a painter, but having bounced around in every discipl...
Shawn Lani
Shawn Lani is a senior artist at the Exploratorium. Most recently, Shawn...
Shih Chieh Huang
Taiwanese-born Shih Chieh (“Cj”) Huang’s work focuses on exploring...
Stacy Speyer
Stacy Speyer’s creative passions shift between a constant drive to make a...
Stephanie Muscat
As a kid, Steph thought her superpower was seeing molecules. She was act...
Stijn Schiffeleers
Working in many media, Stijn, member of the Futurefarmers artist collective...
Sudhu Tewari
Sudhu Tewari has been called a professional bricoleur, junkyard maven and y...
Tiffany Tseng
Tiffany is a designer who creates tools for sharing and learning with one a...
Tim Hunkin
Tim trained as an engineer, but then became a cartoonist, drawing the Ru...
Tim Mickel
Tim tinkers with Scratch and ScratchJr at the MIT Media Lab's Lifelong Kind...
Todd McLellan
It started from a kindergarten finger painting class and grew from there...
Virginia Fleck
Virginia Fleck was born in New York City. She began making artwork in child...
Walter Kitundu
Walter Kitundu is a multidisciplinary artist who focuses on sculpture an...