Showing posts with label Binary Toys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Binary Toys. Show all posts

DigiColor Binary Game


DigiColor has created two versions of their colorful binary counting toy. One small and one large, both plastic games are really cool. Colorful plastic balls travel down a binary tree and land in the appropriate bit bucket to represent the sum of the decimal numbers to the left of each toy. A good way to learn simple binary arithmetic, because four bit binary involves only the decimal numbers 0 -15 and the first four powers of 2.

A Binary Marble Adding Machine

Matthias Wandel demonstrates his fantastic creation: A Binary Marble Adding Machine. Made of wood, the machine uses marbles to represent binary digits (6 bits).

Read more about the 6-bit Binary Marble Adding Machine here!.

Four Bits is a Nibble

"The binary numeral system, or base-2 number system, is a numeral system that represents numeric values using two symbols, usually 0 and 1. ... the binary system is used internally by virtually all modern computers. " - Wikipedia