Skip to content

Geeks out of the box

a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com

Category: LittleBits

By Geeks out of the Box Posted on August 25, 2016August 25, 2016

Simon wrote this code himself.

And it worked! It makes the number bit go up to 99.

Categories: Arduino, Coding, Electricity, LittleBits, UncategorizedTags: Arduino, Coding, Electricity, LittleBits
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on August 24, 2016

How many volts is the central C?

Simon has discovered that every piano key on the electric piano corresponds to a certain voltage/ amount of energy/ electricity. He found this out by playing with his electric piano … Continue reading How many volts is the central C?

Categories: Electricity, Experiments, LittleBits, Music, PianoTags: electric circuits, electronic music, LittleBits, Music
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on August 22, 2016August 24, 2016

LittleBits meet Ableton Live

It’s always tough to learn to handle new software, especially if the interface we got didn’t really match the instructions in the YouTube video tutorials, but Simon didn’t give up … Continue reading LittleBits meet Ableton Live

Categories: Experiments, LittleBits, Music, Physics, PianoTags: Ableton Live, Electricity, freedom to learn, LittleBits
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on August 22, 2016August 24, 2016

Several ways to mess with Bartok

Simon’s recorded himself playing a little Bartok piece he likes and then modified it using a LittleBits filter and usb i/o. We have also tried to see what Bartok’s music looks … Continue reading Several ways to mess with Bartok

Categories: Electricity, LittleBits, Milestones, Music, Physics, Piano, UncategorizedTags: Electricity, LittleBits, RGB
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on August 22, 2016

If This Then That

Simon is spending his days learning to go about with his birthday presents – the new LittleBits modules. The CloudBit is probably one of his most important assets now, allowing him … Continue reading If This Then That

Categories: Coding, Electricity, LittleBits, UncategorizedTags: IFTT, LittleBits
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on August 16, 2016

Simon’s Electronic Birthday

Simon started celebrating his 7th birthday a few days earlier this year as his best friend was visiting from Amsterdam. We’ve had an awesome time, with the Synth Pro tutorials … Continue reading Simon’s Electronic Birthday

Categories: LittleBits, MusicTags: LittleBits, Music
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on August 13, 2016August 13, 2016

He’s writing code!

Trying to write code would be a more accurate way to say it as many sketches don’t work or have errors, but the fact remains: two days ago Simon started … Continue reading He’s writing code!

Categories: Arduino, Coding, Electricity, LittleBits, MilestonesTags: Arduino, Coding, LittleBits, Scratch
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on August 3, 2016August 3, 2016

Logic Gates

Simon has been busy with the logic gates. Here he explains the inverter in English: Yesterday he and his math tutor devoted one lesson to the same topic and made … Continue reading Logic Gates

Categories: Electricity, LittleBits, Milestones, Murderous Maths, PhysicsTags: LittleBits
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on July 29, 2016

Simon’s disco

Simon built a LittleBits circuit with a sequencer where high pitches make the fan run faster And here the “music” circuit is snapped to light wire

Categories: Electricity, Experiments, LittleBits, Milestones, Physics, PianoTags: electronic music, LittleBits
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on July 27, 2016

Our home sounds weirder and weirder

The LittleBits Synth Kit has arrived! Actually, Simon isn’t turning 7 for another two weeks but he just couldn’t wait until his birthday to experiment with this whimsical set encompassing both electricity … Continue reading Our home sounds weirder and weirder

Categories: Electricity, LittleBits, Physics, PianoTags: electronic music, LittleBits
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on July 27, 2016

Let there be light… wire!

Two new LittleBits projects with our brand new bits. The light wire circuit Simon built has a light sensor which he put in “dark mode” which means that the wire lights … Continue reading Let there be light… wire!

Categories: Electricity, LittleBits, PhysicsTags: bot, light wire, LittleBits
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on July 26, 2016

Measuring the atmosphere

Experimented with light going through the atmosphere. Used water instead of atmosphere and added milk to water to represent particles in the atmosphere. Shining through the water with a bright … Continue reading Measuring the atmosphere

Categories: Experiments, LittleBits, UncategorizedTags: LittleBits

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts

Recent Posts

  • The First 3×3 Blindfolded Single May 2, 2023
  • Yellowle (version of Wordle) May 2, 2023
  • Three Cubing Competitions Further March 27, 2023
  • Next Level March 27, 2023
  • Platformer Template January 9, 2023
  • Happy 2023 Cubed! January 9, 2023
  • Advent of Code December 23, 2022
  • New 3×3 Blindfolded Attempts December 23, 2022
  • Minesweeper December 23, 2022
  • Unexpected Value November 18, 2022

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Instagram

Archives

Categories

Tags

3Blue1Brown 7 year old programmer 8 year old programmer 9 year old programmer algorithms Arduino Brilliant Calculus chemistry Chinese Codea Coding Coding Train Computer Science CSS Cubing Daniel Shiffman Electricity Electronics Experiments Fibonacci game game dev games genetic algorithm geometry geometry joy GitHub homeschooling html James Grime James Tanton Java JavaScript Light LittleBits live stream Logic Lua Machine Learning Magformers Mandarin math math puzzles MathsJam MathsJamAntwerp Matt Parker Music neural networks notes Numberphile P5 p5.js particles Physics physics libraries pi Piano Processing proof puzzle Python RaspberryPi Repl.it self-directed learning self-taught sin cos tan Singing Banana The Nature of Code Together with sis trigonometry vectors visualization web development Wolfram

Recent Comments

Mr. Jayson Funnelton's avatarMr. Jayson Funnelton on “Triangular” Roots
Geeks out of the Box's avatarGeeks out of the Box on Probability Calculations
Create a website or blog at WordPress.com
Scroll Up
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Geeks out of the box
    • Join 206 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Geeks out of the box
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...