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Simon carried out a project on his new RaspberryPi today that allows to see his programming and problem solving level quite well. Luckily I was there on time with my … Continue reading What is Simon’s level in coding and problem solving?
This morning Simon was crying bitterly when he thought that the equation to calculate the resistance in a video wasn’t correct. We wrote the solution down together in detail and … Continue reading Algebra>Solving Equations>Balancing Scales
It was a LittleBits servo motor and an old laptop this time.
Look Mom, Simon said today, in math there is something called the absolute value. What is the absolute value of -4,7? It’s 4,7! (I think he learned it from his … Continue reading Absolutely beautiful
On Tuesday and Wednesday Simon spent a great deal of his time training himself JavaScript on the w3schools.com website. He explained every action to me in great detail, it amused and … Continue reading JavaScript: Simon masters Infinity
Simon wrote a poster with electricity formulas (from memory) this morning and applied one of them (Ohm’s law) to his advanced lemon experiment. We had already tried this experiment … Continue reading Ohm’s Law Applied to Lemons
It was Simon’s idea to reimage the corrupted SD-card, he tried doing it himself the morning after the crash. He downloaded Noobs and Raspbian from RaspberryPi’s website but couldn’t go … Continue reading We fixed the PiTop! Can’t believe it worked!
Didn’t really feel like going to his first Fench class this morning. All he wanted to do before and after French class was program: We were utterly shattered when at … Continue reading PiTop, day 2 (Tuesday)
Yesterday, while we were celebrating Halloween, Simon had more important things to do: he assembled his first laptop and spent hours programming it.
This weekend was marked with another milestone: Simon read his first Chinese sentence without pinyin.
In the video below Simon applies his knowledge of combinatorics to calculate the total number of possible colours one can create in CSS. I didn’t ask him to do this. … Continue reading Simon calculates colour probabilities. #RRGGBB
Simon told me today he invented a new electronics kit that would allow him to “make” any misical instrument he wanted. Outside at the playground he indulged in listing all … Continue reading Simon’s invention idea
Geeks out of the box 