Making educational toys means making toys that break down important, abstract concepts into a playful, tangible form. Makers of Turing Tumble and Spintronics.
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!
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!"
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📢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.
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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/
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.
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 🙄.)
ALT My son solving one of the Turing Tumble puzzles where you have to control blue and red balls and make them fall in specific patterns using different widgets.
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
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.
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
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