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From the Ted Talk by Ayah Bdeir: Building blocks that blink, beep and teach

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Clanging)

(Buzzing)

A few weeks ago we took littleBits to RISD and gave them to some designers with no experience in engineering whatsoever — just caardrobd, wood and paper — and told them "Make something." Here's an example of a pjeroct they made, a motion-activated confetti canon ball. (Laughter) But wait, this is actually my favorite project. It's a lobster made of ployaudgh that's afraid of the dark.

(Laughter)

To these non-engineers, littleBits became another material, electronics became just another material. And we want to make this material accessible to everyone. So littleBits is open-source. You can go on the website, download all the dgsein felis, make them yourself. We want to encourage a wlrod of cotrares, of inventors, of contributors, because this world that we live in, this interactive world, is ours. So go ahead and start inventing.

Open Cloze


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(Buzzing)

A few weeks ago we took littleBits to RISD and gave them to some designers with no experience in engineering whatsoever — just _________, wood and paper — and told them "Make something." Here's an example of a _______ they made, a motion-activated confetti canon ball. (Laughter) But wait, this is actually my favorite project. It's a lobster made of _________ that's afraid of the dark.

(Laughter)

To these non-engineers, littleBits became another material, electronics became just another material. And we want to make this material accessible to everyone. So littleBits is open-source. You can go on the website, download all the ______ _____, make them yourself. We want to encourage a _____ of ________, of inventors, of contributors, because this world that we live in, this interactive world, is ours. So go ahead and start inventing.

Solution


  1. world
  2. cardboard
  3. files
  4. design
  5. playdough
  6. creators
  7. project

Original Text


(Clanging)

(Buzzing)

A few weeks ago we took littleBits to RISD and gave them to some designers with no experience in engineering whatsoever — just cardboard, wood and paper — and told them "Make something." Here's an example of a project they made, a motion-activated confetti canon ball. (Laughter) But wait, this is actually my favorite project. It's a lobster made of playdough that's afraid of the dark.

(Laughter)

To these non-engineers, littleBits became another material, electronics became just another material. And we want to make this material accessible to everyone. So littleBits is open-source. You can go on the website, download all the design files, make them yourself. We want to encourage a world of creators, of inventors, of contributors, because this world that we live in, this interactive world, is ours. So go ahead and start inventing.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
building block 5
concrete blocks 3


Important Words


  1. accessible
  2. afraid
  3. ball
  4. buzzing
  5. canon
  6. cardboard
  7. clanging
  8. confetti
  9. contributors
  10. creators
  11. dark
  12. design
  13. designers
  14. download
  15. electronics
  16. encourage
  17. engineering
  18. experience
  19. favorite
  20. files
  21. gave
  22. interactive
  23. inventing
  24. inventors
  25. laughter
  26. littlebits
  27. live
  28. lobster
  29. material
  30. paper
  31. playdough
  32. project
  33. risd
  34. start
  35. told
  36. wait
  37. website
  38. weeks
  39. whatsoever
  40. wood
  41. world