Sentences with word «tinkers»

A vintage silver Porsche sits on blocks in the driveway across the street as its owner tinkers with the engine.

Once in a while he tinkers with it, fixes it up, resets it to serve his special purposes, so that the strongest evidence of Christianity's truth is this divine intervention in miracles, but generally the watch runs mechanically by itself.

But unlike the tinkers of another era, these people had no societal status.

Thom Jensen, the inventor of the Perfect Bacon Bowl, is a Salt Lake City research histologist who tinkers in his spare time.

But if you love tinkering with PC parts and regularly keep on top of the crypto market, you could give it a try.

I still tinker, and I always will, but now my tinkering is at a much higher level.»

Kroetsch is typical of those involved in the early drone community, a mechanically inclined kid who liked to tinker with electronics.

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Tinkering over months, White perfected and patented what has become known as his All Day Heels technology: The secret is hollowing out the shoe sole and injecting it with Poron so that every square inch contains 1,000 air bubbles.

By tinkering with the position of the $ 219 keyboard, and accompanying devices like a joystick or mouse, users will strain their hands and wrists less.

Young founders prefer to tinker with their product rather than do the tough work of knocking on doors to hawk their wares.

Renninger, who holds a PhD in biochemical engineering, began tinkering with the idea of plant - based alternative dairy products in late 2014.

But neither Merrill nor Beck had ever built a serious game, and they had only tinkered with code.

«Our franchisees provide jobs and help their communities, and the last thing they want is for us to tinker in their businesses,» Dolifka said.

Soylent is «open - source,» with a DIY page encouraging people to tinker with the recipe.

And yet, for all his professional accolades, Shannon was comfortable being something that we too often take for granted: an amateur.Shannon was «an amateur unicyclist» and «an amateur juggler,» and could often be found tinkering away at his home, building things from scratch such as a robotic mouse that could navigate a maze.

Many parents of kids who struggle in school have wished that they could somehow tinker with their kid's brain to fix whatever was holding them back and making them feel so miserable.

Founder James Dyson first began tinkering with vacuums in the 1970s.

Scientists are learning much from all this tinkering, but experts say these big projects — if they work — are at best decades away from commercialization.

While legal, it's presumably not great for Yelp's reputation if the public thinks the company is tinkering with its review - filtering algorithm based on whether or not a company pays for advertising.

Half a million people took to the streets of Romania against the Romanian government's plans to tinker with the constitution.

A traditional view of entrepreneurs is that they are creative individuals who tinker in garages, lack social skills and can't run anything.

So, nights and weekends, he tinkered with his own software program, EarthTuner, which let users listen to radio stations over the Internet.

The company continued to tinker with the blue - can look over the next several years, touting the «action» and «energy» look of the can, terms that MillerCoors executives say today were straight up marketing hype.

The former Google executive told The Guardian that he was «not a big sleeper» and wakes up at 5 a.m. or 5:15 a.m. every day to workout, read, tinker with AOL's products, and answer emails.

Yet, we give our people permission to try things, to tinker, to challenge.

For all athletic - gear makers that are tinkering with the technology, it won't yet result in massive sales.

Pass your savings on to customers by tinkering with shipping promotions, which will drive up your order volumes and profits per sale.

Meredith Perry, who began tinkering with wireless charging as a paleobiology undergrad at the University of Pennsylvania, started the company in 2011.

Johnson plans to tinker with his model before the 2012 Summer Games, but insists that it provides a useful gauge of countries» returns on their Olympic investments.

Then, it's about tinkering with the recipe to make it just right.

«It's not something that the data really speaks to, but it makes sense mentoring programs, and sort of tinkering programs, might be effective,» said Alex Bell, one of the authors on the paper.

«The teams that will win are teams with deep historical context who have been tinkering with consensus mechanisms and scalability for several years.

The service is opened up to individuals for tinkering, with edits having to pass through an approval process before they are accepted into Google Maps and Google Earth.

Our employees need freedom to test, to tinker, to succeed, and yes, to fail.

Even tinkering with the CPP may get further traction.

If you tinker with the numbers and your breakeven revenue still seems unattainable, you may need to rethink your opportunity.

Weren't you just telling us about something you've been tinkering with in your basement?

I'm not sure I entirely agree with the sentiment, but I do believe one of the greatest risks you can take with a Big Idea is to keep mulling it over and tinkering with it ad nauseam because you're fretful that it's not yet perfect.

The site provides a community for individuals not affiliated with Soylent to tinker with recipes for «lower - case letter «soylent,»» or singular sources of food that can provide complete nutrition.

In a flash of both brilliance and perhaps frustration, Espinosa put together a visual builder that let Jobs design the calculator himself by changing the thickness of the lines, the size of the buttons, the shading, and the background, without doing too much technical tinkering.

Soylent the product and company, or «capital - letter «Soylent,»» encourages this tinkering in the spirit of open source data.

It was then that he realized he would have to tinker with the typical open - book strategy.

Inspired by Peter Atwood's pocket - size pry tools made out of high - end metals, McCoskery started tinkering to create a toy that doesn't «need a lot of space» and «keeps your hands busy.»

But to find its next Sharegate, the company needs to carve out time and space to ideate and tinker.

The open - source designs lend themselves to «a culture of sharing,» and tens of thousands of Adafruit customers are feeding off each other's creativity, tinkering with more powerful MintyBoosts and iNecklaces that flash at different speeds and cycle through bright colors.

«The Liberal government remains busy tinkering with eco fees and tweaking with failed recycling programs while we ship a third of our province's waste — or four million tonnes — to the United States every year,» he said.

Tinkering is when the customer is given a base product and allowed to customize various details of it.

We'd say the pair, tight since childhood, have come a long way from tinkering with toy robots and Legos, wouldn't you?

«The idea is to tinker around and to be willing to come up with flops.»