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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…
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…
I was reading David Cope’s Taking Sides and came across the game, Endgame. The pieces basically move the same as in chess, except no side can take the others’ pieces. Rather the goal is to entrap the other side so that all their pieces are in check and they have no way to move out…
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…