Definitions for "bricoleur"
a jack-of-all-trades, a potterer, with overtones of unexpected strokes
a kind of handyman who enjoys adroitly drawing upon all sorts of everyday things - just what lies at hand - to attend to those things that make the good life
a kind of intuitive technician who plays around with concepts and objects in order to learn about them
an ingenious fix-it man who can work wonders with the simplest tools and almost no materials