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The theme for this month’s Assemble learning party was Top Secret! We wanted to create a few short activities to introduce kids to some concepts in security. *What it means to brute force a password. Try it out yourself here. Their algorithms for what character(s) to try improved dramatically once they realized typing in a…
I found this code via Public Lab’s Thermal Photography project. Growpoodle is basically the free and open source equivalent of glowdoodle which allows you to ‘paint with light’. I wanted to run the FOSS version but it was not working because it had not been updated in a while, so I fixed it and it…
Game Description: Thank you for buying this Machine! You’ll find your machine to be an amazing companion and tool throughout the years. However, be warned: machines are a commitment. Machines rely on their operators to keep them running smooth and efficiently for units of time to come, in the proud Button-Tec tradition of long-lasting, high-quality…
The Internet’s Own Boy depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. It features interviews with his family and friends as well as the internet luminaries who worked with him. The film tells his story up to his eventual suicide after a legal battle, and explores the questions…
Exhibit Name: Art or Science? Vote! Location: Carnegie Science Center Objects: 10 items, 9 print outs to be hung on the wall and 1 physical object (crochet models). Online Exhibit and voting also available. Interaction: Participants voted on each presented image as being art or science. Then lifted the flap or went to this webpage…