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Top Secret!

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…

Serious Street Art ^_~

Apparently my face has been spotted at AISG (in Guangzhou) As you can see it’s clearly me! My sources tell me that the artist is an IB student by the name of Jasmine. Well props to you Jasmine ^_^ ******** Update: I’ve sinced emailed her and she provided me with pictures of the stencil and…

Image Atlas … Exploring Cultural Associations through words and images

Imageatlas.org created in part by the late Aaron Swartz and Taryn Simon, was developed for Rhizome and The New Museum by Dom Hofmann and is described as: Image Atlas investigates cultural differences and similarities by indexing top image results for given search terms across local engines throughout the world. Visitors can refine or expand their…

Spectroscope

Just finished putting this diy device together . . . Then I was off to calibrate the spectrometer using the spectral workbench software… good times :) You can visit my findings on my profile page on the spectralworkbench site. For more information as to what it is and how it works visit Public Labs’ Spectrometer…

Elemental Humans

If you heat the atoms enough, they will emit light. However, if you put their light through a prism, you get discreet lines, so called emission spectra in the visible region. They are characteristic for each element. For this series, the portraits are overlayed with the emission spectra of each of the displayed elements. The…

4-Bit XOR Cipher Towers in Minecraft

I know what you must be thinking- 4-bit? XOR? Cipher? Towers? o_O First four images are Tower 1 and last four are of Tower 2. Let’s break it down: 4-bit denotes how many values we can have. Since our values are only, tower light on or tower light off (binary), we’re working with a total…