Vacation Program
- Friday, April 20, 2018
- 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
- Designed for ages 9 to 12
- By Ana Tavares,
and Andrew Sargent, Site Historian & Lead Educator,
and Wm Brown, Director Emeritus, EWM
The Drawdio was first conceived at MIT’s Media lab by Jay Silver, a scientist who designs tools to do just what we are doing: encourage young hands to experiment. He shares his designs. Our project has been refined by Alex Tavares.
Construct a Drawdio. The Drawdio combines, what else? a 555 Chip with and oscillator circuit and a pencil. A pencil? The pencils’s carbon works as a resister. Move your fingers along the pencil line the pitch will change. Which is to say: you become part of the device.
Afternoon: Play with a Theramin: a musical instrument devised by Leon Theramin almost 100 years ago. Sculpt electronic components to practice your soldering skills. Or hack, add to or decorate your Drawdio. Or take apart clocks.
