Back to: SciTech Friday’s 2023-24
Today’s Videos
The Biggest Brain on Earth
Design Time
Other Videos
This video covers the main points of the above video, is a lot shorter, but misses touching on a lot of concepts.
Check Your Understanding
Practice
Try one of the following:
- Try the interactive tiling application on the website of the mathematicians that proved the Einstein (note: where are they from?)
- Or the polypad workspace
Design
We’re going to build our own Einstein Puzzle, similar to these ->
Building Our Own Spectre Tile
Note: I suggest leaving the page view settings alone – we will be printing this on paper!
Also, change the document size to US letter- landscape or portrait.
Follow this video (from 7:40)
Make sure you save your file (on the public drive), and make a copy of your shape!
Next, add some curves or other patterns from edge to edge to decorate your tiles. You can make bigger lines by changing the stroke size. Play with the background colors.
Here are some examples of what I’m poorly describing (I mean the patterns on the tiles, not their shapes!)
When you’re happy with your pattern, group all the parts and scale it to a reasonable puzzle piece size.
Duplicate it across and down the page – try and fit in as many as you can. (Check with Drea about the needed margin for the cricut!)
Print out your design.
Drea and Julian will help you use the Cricut to cut out your tiles.
See how big a pattern you can make!
Break
MakeCode Arcade
Notes & Artifacts
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