TinkerHub Webcast - Backyard Brains

Fri, 04/19/2013 - 12:36pm by dubaym

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TinkerHub Webcast: Backyard Brains

TinkerHub is a webcast collaboration between Ann Arbor District Library and All Hands Active, Ann Arbor’s Makerspace. Recorded in Downtown Ann Arbor, TinkerHub webcasts connect learning, technology, and the Ann Arbor community.

In this episode of TinkerHub, Josh and Terence talk to Tim Marzullo about his company Backyard Brains. Co-founded here in Ann Arbor, Backyard Brains helps make tangible how electricity helps control the body, all using inventions that can then be carried around in their pockets! Tune in as Josh watches the messages that he sends to make his muscles twitch.

Links mentioned in the episode:

• All Hands Active website
• Backyard Brains
• Backyard Brains TED talk
• Instructables

Library resources mentioned:

• Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants by Peter D'Amato
• Makers by Cory Doctorow
• Rapture of the Nerds by Cory Doctorow
• The Boy Mechanic by the editors of Popular Mechanics

Past AADL-All Hands Active Events

• 3d Printing
• Introduction to Game Programming
• Seeing Electricity
• Maker Music
• Line-Following Robots