{"id":494,"date":"2014-10-04T14:18:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T21:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/yarden\/?p=11"},"modified":"2014-10-20T11:16:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T18:16:16","slug":"broadening-mind-broadening-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/broadening-mind-broadening-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadening Mind, Broadening Material."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/yarden\/files\/2014\/10\/alex-grey-class.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/yarden\/files\/2014\/10\/alex-grey-class-292x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>&#8216;&#8221;OK, that&#8217;s really cool, but I have to ask the boring question, Perry. Why? Why build a toast robot?&#8221;&#8216;&#8230; &#8220;What I&#8217;ve got here are my own constraints. I&#8217;m challenging myself, using found objects and making stuff that throws all this computational capacity at, you know, these\u00a0<em>trivial<\/em> \u00a0problems, like car-driving Elmo clusters and seashell toaster-robots. We have so much capacity that the trivia expands to fill.&#8221;&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>Observing what the makers of class were inventing on tinkercad was a bit like stepping into someone&#8217;s mind. Never before have I experienced a way to express \u00a0a 3D construction so literally as tinkercad allows. The fact that I could imagine \u00a0an object, and within minutes have the object represented in front of me with \u00a0exact precision blew my mind, and I could sense an excitement and playfulness \u00a0around the room. I saw people creating coins that somehow reflected \u00a0themselves, like using favorite symbols or numbers, but a question that surfaced \u00a0in discussion with the makers of the class and in Makers, is that question why \u00a0we create. Why do we put our minds, or ourselfves \u00a0into material objects. One \u00a0answer that we arrived through discussion, is humans innately want to improve themselves and the world around them by challenging themselves and exploring where the limitations of<br \/>\nthe mind and the material may be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lsquo;&rdquo;OK, that&rsquo;s really cool, but I have to ask the boring question, Perry. Why? Why&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":363,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}