Tuesday, September 28, 2021

So you teach High School kids to build Battlebots. What do you do for an encore?

Teach 'em cryptography.  Coolest. Teacher. Ever. 

For an encore, get some CNC machines and build an Enigma machine.

4 comments:

  1. Old NFOSeptember 28, 2021 at 11:44 AM

    That could be 'interesting'...to put it mildly!

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  2. AesopSeptember 28, 2021 at 12:21 PM

    Riiiiight.

    And then some bright young wiseacre hacks the CNC machine.

    And the prototype parts he makes are listed as components under the NFA.

    Kids realizing that if you're a machinist, machineguns can never be "banned", FTW!

    Coolest lesson ever.

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  3. RoySeptember 28, 2021 at 12:44 PM

    Dang. I'm in my sixties and I wouldn't mind joining that class.

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  4. TacitusSeptember 28, 2021 at 1:34 PM

    Odd that CNC machines get mentioned. One of our sponsors makes high end CNC woodworking machines. They hire our smartest kids. A couple of them actually were designing CNC machines while still in high school. No need to hack when you are designing the thing from the floor up.

    This is in the category of Scary Smart.

    T

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