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

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By Geeks out of the Box Posted on October 19, 2016

The static electricity experiment

Categories: Electricity, Experiments, Physics, UncategorizedTags: Electricity, Experiments, Physics, SparkFun
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on October 14, 2016

Simon’s Hypnotic Wheel

Categories: Electricity, Experiments, LittleBits, UncategorizedTags: LittleBits
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on October 11, 2016

Simon’s first successful sketch in Processing 

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By Geeks out of the Box Posted on October 11, 2016

Differences

Simon has been busy unraveling the differences between Arduino, JavaScript and Python. Here I caught him trying to explain notions as qualified/unqualified and indenting instead of curly braces in Python. He … Continue reading Differences

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By Geeks out of the Box Posted on October 6, 2016October 6, 2016

Python

Simon is exercising in Python. He tried to replicate the Blink LED project from an online Raspberry Pi tutorial here:  

Categories: Coding, Python, UncategorizedTags: Coding, Python
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on October 6, 2016October 6, 2016

Evening read 

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By Geeks out of the Box Posted on October 3, 2016October 3, 2016

Learning electricity symbols 

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By Geeks out of the Box Posted on September 22, 2016September 22, 2016

SAM

Simon has discovered this new tool called SAM https://www.samlabs.com and has been studying their free app for hours, creating a variety of circuits online and trying to write code. He would … Continue reading SAM

Categories: Coding, Electricity, SAM, UncategorizedTags: Coding, Electricity, SAM
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on September 20, 2016

Like a robot

In this video Simon shares his idea on the use of the EMG SpikerBox module (from the LittleBits Bit Lab) that detects the electrical activity of human muscles non-invasively using simple … Continue reading Like a robot

Categories: Biology, Electricity, LittleBits, UncategorizedTags: human body, LittleBits
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on September 15, 2016

Hardware Development

Simon is fascinated by the prospective to develop his own hardware. This video is just a tiny piece of a “lecture” on the LittleBits proto modules and breadboard he gave … Continue reading Hardware Development

Categories: Coding, Electricity, LittleBits, UncategorizedTags: Coding, Electricity, LittleBits
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on September 13, 2016September 13, 2016

Math is Magic

Cut the Möbius strip several times along its length. the best magic trick ever. Simon finds that Möbius strip is four-dimensional.

Categories: Experiments, Murderous Maths, UncategorizedTags: math, Mobius
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on September 13, 2016

LittleBits are still around

When Simon wants some rest from the brainpower consuming Arduino he switches back to the simpler LittleBits. This is just one of the many little things he built over the … Continue reading LittleBits are still around

Categories: Electricity, LittleBits, UncategorizedTags: Electricity, LittleBits

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