Making educational toys means making toys that break down important, abstract concepts into a playful, tangible form. Makers of Turing Tumble and Spintronics.

North Oaks, MN
Upper Story ~ Endless Curiosity retweeted
I don't know why I just recently found about Spintronics but this like the coolest thing ever! The video shows the mechanically-equivalent circuit of an OR logic gate!
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Upper Story ~ Endless Curiosity retweeted
Enjoying our time using Turing Tumble
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Upper Story ~ Endless Curiosity retweeted
This toy has been a lot of fun so far. It's called Turing Tumble and it is essentially Turing machine powered by gravity and marbles, with Boolean variables and conditions - the blue pieces. It is possible to implement arithmetic operations and represent numbers using different states of bits or colors of the output marbles. There is also "halt" piece which captures a marble and stops the sequence. This video is what my son built himself. He asked to add this to this tweet: "Behold, the heart of art!" store.upperstory.com/product…
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Upper Story ~ Endless Curiosity retweeted
📢Y ya es hora de ver TURING TUMBLE en acción!! En este vídeo vemos el primero de los desafíos que nos proponen desde @UpperStoryCo. Si te animas, poco a poco irás logrando objetivos cada vez más complejos y apasionantes. youtu.be/EK_6lShuJJE Si os gusta, comentad el post!
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Upper Story ~ Endless Curiosity retweeted
My dear @CounterHackSec team gave me a most delightful holiday gift -- Spintronics Act1, Act2, & PowerPack. It is a toy building kit that teaches electronics principles via mechanical devices. It's WONDERFUL. Love it! Thanks, team! upperstory.com/spintronics/
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Upper Story ~ Endless Curiosity retweeted
Today was a busy one so we didn't get much of a chance to play anything but we *did* play through the first 7 puzzles in the Spintronics game we got my older son—it's basically a tabletop Zachtronics game (which are among my favorite videogames), so I have high hopes.
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Upper Story ~ Endless Curiosity retweeted
Having mastered Turing Tumble, Curie has now moved on to keeping a firm paw on proper programming
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Upper Story ~ Endless Curiosity retweeted
Learning to flip bits with #4 curtesy of Turing Tumble. (It was a birthday present over four years ago but we still haven’t solved all the puzzles yet 🙄.)
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Upper Story ~ Endless Curiosity retweeted
Kleinzoon een dag hier, wil het liefst op de tablet van opa maar dat mag maar 2x1u van mij Dan maar alles uit de kast trekken: van het moderne Turing Tumble tot mijn oude vlooienspel. Heeft ruim een halve eeuw ongeschonden doorstaan maar hij is een slopertje Nu met opa fietsen
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Turing Tumble Mainan edukatif yg bs jd rebutan gw dan Teresa 😆😆😆
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Upper Story ~ Endless Curiosity retweeted
6a/b are learning to code mechanical computers this week! #coding #turingtumble @PeelSchools @MSzechynski @LisgarMS
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Upper Story ~ Endless Curiosity retweeted
Replying to @UpperStoryCo
We didn’t have that type of ride near me. Instead I put an Estes engine in a balsa wood rocket and set my mother’s rose bush on fire 😇
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Upper Story ~ Endless Curiosity retweeted
Replying to @eitechToys
Mit dem #TuringTumble (nach Alan Turing) an #MINTmachen-Station Nr. 2 konnte man einen mechanischen Logikrechner bauen, der mit Murmeln, Weichen und Wippen funktioniert. Damit kann man kann man gut einfache Algorithmen visualisieren. Vielen Dank an Niklas für die Unterstützung.
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Upper Story ~ Endless Curiosity retweeted
Thanks to a generous grant from the Escondido Education Foundation we have a spintronics class! It's building mechanical circuits that show how electrical circuits work. Our students are loving this new #stem tool! #ChooseQuantum
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Upper Story ~ Endless Curiosity retweeted
Blijft prachtig! Eindelijk twee eigen sets in huis! 👌
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Upper Story ~ Endless Curiosity retweeted
Math, computer science and reading skills put into practice as well as the 4C’s when we used the Turing Tumble kits available through WSDSTEAM. Best for Grades 6 and up! Great for collaboration and logical thinking. @WSD_Libraries @WinnipegSD @goddard_dorothy
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