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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 05
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 05

by Mark Frauenfelder
February 2006
Beginner content levelBeginner
224 pages
7h 28m
English
Make: Community
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Make this simple quiz game using a battery, a light bulb, some wire, and paper clips.

Illustrations by Damien Scogin

CIRCUIT QUIZ GAME

Teach kids about circuitry in 30 minutes.

By Ben Wheeler

Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law states that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Clarke’s law could use a corollary: sometimes it doesn’t take much for something to be advanced enough to seem mystical. Today’s kids are used to every teddy bear and softball being Turing-complete, so hidden complexity doesn’t impress them. To really dazzle them, you need older technologies, like circuitry, which feel magical by their very openness ...

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