Session B: Day 5
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Every day at Tinkering School starts with a plan. Following the plan is optional. Having a plan is not. Nooi makes a plan.
The cave sits beautiful and nearely ready, and focus turns towards ninja blocks.
However, the cave still needs love, and acts as a great place to meet.
A box on stilts attached to a box will eventaully be in the ninja blocks / lily-pad obstacle.
Sayer and Leo think ahead.
Connor and Chris do some fancy high-angle cuts on the brakes for the cart.
Jigsaws are hard, but Chris has it down.
Harrison thinks long and hard about his section of the course.
The cart's brakes still don't have much friction. Tennis balls just might be the thing we needed.
Attaching the brakes so that they turn is the perfect job for a bolt.
But some joints are better off with screws.
Connor and Sayer get pumped. About what? It isn't clear, but it seems tinkering related.
This 2x3 is really nice. Kiln dried and everything.
Screws. Possibly the most important thing for tinkering.
Brakes with custom jig-sawed-handles and tennis ball friction pads. A Connor and Chris exclusive.
Basketball with a four-square ball.
Angled boxes will be a lily pad challenge.
The Piki team is making a ramp that rotates, but because of that it is less stable.
Winter tests the monkey bars.
Ryker can't wait to try out the monkey bars now that it has been declared safe.
Katherine and Jack screw together pieces of the ramp.
Sarah explains how the ramp works.
Sayer shows us how to use a square, an angle-measuring super-fancy protractor that is actually shaped like a triangle.
Ryker cuts an angle with the chopsaw
Braces are good things to lean up against and have a conversation.
The Cave, in all of its glory.
Kira found a box she fits in. It's fun in there.
PVC baseball with three people - tinkering lets out creativity.
1100 Le Conte Ave, Montera, CA 94037, By the Water Cooler. In case you want to write the sunscreen a letter.
Katie gives Winter a ride to the cafeteria.
Is this box strong enough for a person? Yes!
Winter the tiger!
Leo tries to lie down on the unbalanced, swinging steps.
The newly-safe swings are super fun but quite difficult to play on. Because the top is close enough to the swinging steps that some people are taller, a number of strategies to cross have emerged. Some favorites are just monkey bar-ing, sitting and scooting from one bar to the next, and walking straight across holding on to the paracord on the side.
Kelly cuts an angle on the chopsaw.
Balance beams are surprisingly hard to stabilize, so we leave them on the ground for now at least.
When you have three people, it's kinda hard to play four-square. But still possible.
Sophie pre-drills for the ladder on the swinging steps.
Anya climbs on something.
When screws are stripped, the only way to get them out is either hammer/mallet-ing them out, or with a vise-grip like the one Bridget is using.
Anya climbs on another thing.
Sometimes a screw gets stuck on a drill bit when you take it out, so you have to knock it off against something. That is, when it doesn't stick a nanometer into the wood.
The ramp rotates around a dowel, but right now it is still unsafe.
Sayer has fun helping make the elevator support structure.
Hannah, Odyssey, and Kira have a conversation sitting on the Panda box/rock climbing wall.
This sign belongs to Team Panda, thank you very much.
Is Anya going to climb on another thing?
Katherine certainly is.
Kavan is hanging off the edge of the slide.
We ran out of 3-inch screws, so we go on a group screw-hunt.
Connor makes a sail-cart. Steering is sketchy, and there isn't enough wind or enough sail to actually move faster than a snail.