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.
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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