Six Tinkers

Have you ever made something with your own hands?  A plush doll?  A toy boat?  A scale model of your house made out of building blocks?  The act of taking an idea from your head and putting it into the real world is invigorating, empowering, and extremely rewarding.  Makeshop is a place designed to allow kids to do just that.  They provide children with access to tools, materials, and trained staff to help them create and realize their ideas.

Six Tinkers is a Spring 2014 ETC project working with Makeshop and Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh to build an app designed to inspire kids to create real items with their own hands.  Using Makeshop’s philosophy of emphasizing the connections between ideas, stuff, and processes, our app will serve as the springboard for a child to dive into the amazing world of do-it-yourself creation.

Team Members: Xuefeng (Glen) Dai, Mu (Elodie) Li, Xiangting (Jeremy) Li, Xin Ning, Chris Patlovany, Allison Sommers

Project Instructor: Scott Stevens