Ways to construct an ellipse
Simon has been greatly inspired by the Tech Square website and tutorials on tech drawing. We have also ordered a drawing kit from their company based in Ireland but haven’t … Continue reading Ways to construct an ellipse
Category: Crafty
A “quirky way to add, subtract and multiply in binary”
Simon has shown me an interesting way to add, subtract and multiply in binary using what is called a Napier’s Checkerboard (or Napier’s Chessboard), something he learned from his new … Continue reading A “quirky way to add, subtract and multiply in binary”
The Perfect Sorting Algorithm
Simon showed us this guessing game where we had to guess the correct sequence of cards with numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 while the cards are all flipped upside down. … Continue reading The Perfect Sorting Algorithm
A Color Palette Generator in p5.JS
One more project from back in July. Inspired by one of his favorite resources Coolors.co, Simon created a beautiful color palette generator in p5.JS that builds off of a theme … Continue reading A Color Palette Generator in p5.JS
ProLang: Simon’s first jam submission
Amidst all the traveling in August, Simon was working on his first serious coding competition submission. Together with a friend from Australia, he was building a new programming language called … Continue reading ProLang: Simon’s first jam submission
Amsterdam Friends and Color Jump
After months is self-isolation, we spent the whole month of August away from home, first at our old home in Amsterdam, where we had some urgent personal matters to arrange, … Continue reading Amsterdam Friends and Color Jump
Onitama
Simon’s self-made Onitama game set, real fun to play.
A Sound Monitor
Simon has created this sound monitor to help him keep track of the sounds around him if he has his headset on. You can hear the surrounding sounds much better … Continue reading A Sound Monitor
A Small Program that Doubles Itself
I wrote a small program that copies itself. When the program doubles itself it executes itself twice. The code that doubles itself is now doubled. The second time you run … Continue reading A Small Program that Doubles Itself
The Grand Quadratic Formula Quiz!
Simon has been pondering a lot about various ways to visualize or prove the quadratic formula. He eventually came up with a 4-meter-long quiz sheet, slowly revealing the logic behind … Continue reading The Grand Quadratic Formula Quiz!
Can a rectangle have the same perimeter and area?
Simon says he saw this question on a thumbnail of a recommended video and got curious to solve this. He built a beautiful colored graph to visualize the problem in … Continue reading Can a rectangle have the same perimeter and area?
Bézier Editor in p5.js
Following up on his Bézier Curve in p5.js project from a couple months ago, Simon created a Bézier Editor: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/4Dj5iq0oh
Geeks out of the box 