sábado, 10 de enero de 2009

Tinkering

Tinkering is what happens when you try something you don't quite know how to do, guided by whim, imagination, and curiosity.

When you tinker, there are no instructions — but there are also no failures, no right or wrong ways of doing things. It's about figuring out how things work and reworking them.

Contraptions, machines, wildly mismatched objects working in harmony—this is the stuff of tinkering.

Tinkering is, at its most basic, a process that marries play and inquiry.

Concepto apasionante, con mil posibles sinónimos en gallego como fochicar, fedellar, chafallar, fozar, argallar... Cusiosa la cantidad de verbos que existen en gallego para definir la improvisación procrastinadora ;-)

La definición de tinkering me la he encontrado en Getting Started with Arduino de Massimo Banzi, pero en primera instancia parece ser que procede de aquí

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