Quote of the Day: On Tinkering

Finally, some justification for my "build first, design later" method:

"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."

from www.exploratorium.edu/tinkering   Quoted in Massimo Banzi's book "Getting Started with Arduino."

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