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Most digital fabrication workflows impose a strong separation between design and fabrication. Designs are first modeled in computer aided...
Computation is a powerful artistic medium. The introduction of computers as a tool for making art has established new forms of art which ...
MaKey MaKey lets you transform everyday objects into computer interfaces. Make a game pad out of Play-Doh, a musical instrument out of ba...
In Family Creative Learning, we engage parents and children in workshops to design and learn together with creative technologies, like th...
The Lifelong Kindergarten group is collaborating with the Museum of Science in Boston to develop materials and workshops that engage youn...
More and more computational activities revolve around collecting, accessing, and manipulating large sets of data, but introductory approa...
Spin is a photography turntable system that lets you capture how your DIY projects come together over time. With Spin, you can create GIF...
Build in Progress is a platform for sharing the story of your design process. With Build in Progress, makers document as they develop the...
Procedural representations, enabled through programming, are a powerful tool for digital illustration, but writing code conflicts with th...
As Scratch proliferates through the world, there is a growing need to support learners. But for teachers, educators, and others who are p...
The Clubhouse Village is an online community that connects people at The Clubhouse Network after-school centers around the world. Through...
Crickets are small programmable devices that can make things spin, light up, and play music. With Crickets, kids can create musical sculp...
Using digital fabrication and embedded computation to allow individuals to make their own devices. This effort started by creating open-s...
Singing Fingers allows children to fingerpaint with sound. Users paint by touching a screen with a finger, but color only emerges if a so...
Twinkle lets you program using crayons, LEGO bricks, or anything that has colors, like a striped shirt or fall leaves. Compose a song wit...
We are developing the next generation of invention kits for kids, expanding the range of what kids can design, create, and invent. This p...
MelodyMorph is an interface for constructing melodies and making improvised music. It removes a constraint of traditional musical instrum...
To foster and better understand collaboration in the Scratch Online Community, we created Collab Camp, a month-long event in which Scratc...
Most uses of digital technologies pull young people away from hands-on experimentation with the physical world. The Playful Invention and...
DressCode is a computer-aided design and fabrication tool that combines programming with graphic drawing and manipulation, allowing novic...
With Color Code, you can create computer programs that respond to colors of objects in the physical world. You can stack up LEGO bricks t...
As part of the Toys to Think With project, we built several strings of Programmable Beads: computational jewelry that children (of all ag...
Drawdio is a pencil that draws music. You can sketch musical instruments on paper and play them with your finger. Touch your drawings to ...
Glowdoodle is free software for painting with light. In front of your webcam, just move a a glowing object, or anything brightly colored...
We are adding digital capabilities to the traditional toys of childhood, and, in the process, redefining how and what children learn. Whe...
Computer modeling and simulation are changing the nature of scientific investigation, by enabling researchers to pose new kinds of questi...
With the Scratch Board, people can use sensors to control interactive stories and games that they create with the Scratch programming lan...
In the tradition of baseball cards, Pogs, and Beanie Babies, we created a new generation of toys that let children trade bits instead of ...
Active Essays were forms of narrative expression in which computational objects were integrated with text, graphics, and video. For examp...
We used tiny, wearable computers to create "participatory simulations" for a new generation of educational activities in which students c...
How can we help people reflect on their own learning process? The goal of this project is to develop new technological tools and pedagogi...
The Hook-Ups system is a set of technologies and activities that enables young people to create interactive experiences by programming co...
We developed new computational tools that allowed children to create their own scientific instruments�enabling today's children, like sci...
Codeable Objects is a library for processing that allows people to design and build objects using geometry and programming. Geometric com...