#papert

[kkarmalade]

The irony is that the adversary is not injustice but lawlessness.

[kkarmalade]

Let use read dope things together.

[kkarmalade]

This came from taking a logo I created using a remixed Kojo program which I then used as the input for the lovely Hunyuan3D, "2D to 3D" Hugging Face space. I'd like to be able to do all of this using TouchDesigner but I'm not smart enough for that. I miss my old Window computer. Not to be, "that guy" but Macs really do suck ass.

Hunyuan3D-1.0 - a Hugging Face Space by tencent

Text-to-3D and Image-to-3D Generation

[kkarmalade]

I made this image using code. The language/environment of choice is Kojo by Lalit Pant. It's influenced by Logo and Processing. You can try it out here: https://www.kogics.net/projects/

This image was made by remixing a Mondrian painting generator that was created by a member of the Kojo community and changing the code to create new shapes and patterns. I've tried to track down the original project but I can't find a link right now. At any rate if the original author of the code would like to take credit please contact me!

[grandest---nothing]

little pink plastic bag

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." (Einstein)

Until you've seen some of the rest, you can't make sense of any part.

How could solid-seeming brains support such ghostly things as thoughts???

In cience, one can learn the most by studying what seems the least.

"You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something." (Seymour Papert)

[fluorescent-ad0lescent]

[marianaludmila]

¿Cuál es la diferencia entre Mate y Matemáticas? ¿Cómo es, según Seymour #Papert, la escuela del futuro? ¿Cómo se da el #aprendizaje a través de la diversión difícil? Video completo en: YouTube.com/marianaludmila #pensamientoMatemático https://www.instagram.com/p/Byi1gFJAh8i/?igshid=1b91fq7vgu539

[patrickbenfield]

Tinkering with Conductive TurtleArt

Sometimes cool projects happen by accident.

A colleague at work needed conductive material for a present he was making but because of its complex design, it wasn’t practical to use conductive paint or ink. So that led us to some specialty 3D printing filament from Proto-pasta.  

Since I had heard that composite material was tricky to work with and could be rough on the printer’s nozzle, we decided to start with a sample coil before investing in the full size (and more expensive) spool.

Embarrassing side note: it didn’t occur to me until the filament arrived that was going to be in a loose coil and not on a spool! After multiple (and hilarious) attempts, we were able to wind it onto an empty, full-size spool. Of course, I found this loose filament spool design much later and might try it next time.

We were both surprised to find that it was super easy to work with and after some initial experiments to dial in the settings, were able to successfully print the design on the first try. And fortunately for me, a lot of leftover filament.

Pen Down. Forward 100. Right 90. Pen Up.

Here at Magellan International School,  we’re big fans of TurtleArt, a block coding descendant of the LOGO programming language for creating amazing works of art simply by moving a virtual “turtle.”

There are countless possibilities for not only creating digital art, but also going “from bits to atoms” by exporting images to digital fabrication tools, like vinyl and laser cutters. For more on this and other cool ideas, check out the work of Erin Riley and Josh Burker.

So it seemed a perfect time to play with some ideas that could potentially be integrated into the units of inquiry of various grade levels as well as in the i.lab for Design + Making, the school’s constructionist learning lab (ie makerspace).

One thing that immediately came to mind was to make an interactive object by combining 3D TurtleArt objects with a Touch Board from Bare Conductive. With this board, it’s a relatively easy process to create sounds that are triggered by touch capacitive sensors. To test out this idea, I made a simple procedure that generates a spiffy looking geometric image.

Although it worked, the lines were too thin and narrow for the project, but a fun and unintended result of the shape was that it had cool “slinky” effect. The second attempt with a thicker lines worked out much better and led to yet another idea: using the slinky effect of the spiral shape to make a small, interactive sculpture garden of TurtleArt designs. Maybe this will wind up in classrooms next year!

Revisiting Old Projects

Needless to say, I’m glad to have stumbled into this material and can’t wait to see how this makes its way into student experiences. Also, while writing this post, I been able to revisit an unfinished project from earlier this year: a wall installation with a “Magellan Maker” version of the IB Learner Profiles that when triggered, plays recording of our students. It was originally going to made out chip board coated with conductive paint, but it was too flimsy -- the 3D printed ones are much better.