a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
I was spending mine listening to Simon’s lectures on various Arduino functions. He has been reading his English Arduino booklet and it’s amazing how quickly he stores that extremely challenging … Continue reading What is your Friday night like?
Our tireless math tutor knows how to turn boring multiplication and division training into art. On Friday he had Simon complete this beautiful circle by multiplying and dividing by prime … Continue reading Make it challenging! And make it snazzy!
We have started our Dutch reading sessions (Simon reading to me and discussing the complicated terms/ new vocab) with the beautiful series Levend Verleden (‘Live History’). Simon had already read … Continue reading Live History (and Dutch)
Simon explains how to build a circuit for a secret safe, a LittleBits project he saw on the internet. He is very fond of logic gates (XOR, Double AND, inverter) … Continue reading Secret box full of logic gates
Right after playing in organ mode on his electric piano for the first time Simon burst into tears and was inconsolable. He even left his popsicle untouched and popsicles always … Continue reading The music was too sad!
Simon spent most of the day coding, with a break to have his Chinese lesson. It turned out that he was composing his one codes. It was very frustrating when … Continue reading Arduino_Tell_The_Fortune. New fun codes composed by Simon.
And it worked! It makes the number bit go up to 99.
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
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
– I do like going to the beach in a certain sense, – Simon told me before going to bed. – I like kiting and jumping over the waves with … Continue reading In a certain sense
Geeks out of the box 