I'm just tinkering It won't crash

I've been tinkering with this thing all day.

I know, I know. He's famous for tinkering, right?

I think that's the scientific term, and he started tinkering.

This is time consuming tinkering but it can eventually produce a breakthrough

During our runin with mardon, Clyde mardon, I was tinkering with something.

Just at the conference here, I think this tinkering stuff just makes cool stuff.

And I know this is like a ton of tinkering and messing around when you do that.

I'm a contract computer scientist by trade, but I'm the founder of something called the Tinkering School.

And just so you know, tinkering with PyPy to me is not the same as just using it.

So tinkering is trying to do something a little bit at a time but always staying at it.

You know that's.. if you're gonna make, you know, the source code is for tinkering. So, go get there.

So if you're thinking about sending your kid to Tinkering School, they do come back bruised, scraped and bloody.

That's not very interesting. uh and the other thing is that tinkering with it is not the same as creating it.

And we took it back to this little tinkering setup of a mobile phone repair shop, and then the magic happens.

Jack presented an idea he'd been tinkering around with for a number of years that was based around sending simple status updates to friends.

How many problems of life can be solved actually by tinkering with perception, rather than that tedious, hardworking and messy business of actually trying to change reality?

My gas consumption plummeted, because I started tinkering with the thermostat and the timing on the heating system, and I knocked more than half off my gas bills.

And, over time, we started understanding and systematically researching what this tinkering ecosystem is about, because that is something that's happening not just in one street corner in Mumbai.

If you want to go beyond a tinkering, if you want to go beyond a hobby of robotics and really tackle the grand challenges of robotics through rigorous research we need more than that.

Basically this is a micro controller with a few extra components that can be shipped for very little cost across the world, and that's what is all required with a little bit of local tinkering talent to convert the device into something else.

I thought my skein of Hungarian mentors had come to an end, but almost immediately I met Francis Robicsek, a Hungarian doctor actually a heart surgeon in Charlotte, North Carolina, then in his late seventies who had been a pioneer in open heart surgery, and, tinkering away in his garage behind his house, had invented many of the devices that are standard parts of those procedures.