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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 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

Some more vacation “art”

Pascal’s triangle (used as an aide in combinatorics) here drawn by Simon to help calculate dice and coin combinations The insides of the Earth and its atmosphere

Categories: Murderous Maths, PhysicsTags: combinatorics, Earth, Pascal
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on June 30, 2016

Life as a Battle of Forces

Simon loves it when we read Larry Gonick’s Cartoon Guide to Physics (we have a Russian translation). My guess is that book is partially responsible for him trying to picture his … Continue reading Life as a Battle of Forces

Categories: Experiments, PhysicsTags: forces, vectors

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