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Unplugged - Binary Bracelets

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    This is the binary bracelets lesson. We are
    going to code our initials on a bracelet we
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    can wear and show all our friends! Binary
    is a way of representing information using
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    only two options. Sometimes people think of
    this as only 1s and 0s. But you can represent
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    binary with combinations of on or off, up
    and down, in and out or really any set of
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    opposites. Hi, I'm Orion and I program robots
    here at PlayI. All computer and robot brains
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    at their most fundamental level are little
    electronic gates. When the gate is open, electricity
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    can flow through and when it's closed, electricity
    can't. An example of binary on the robot is
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    the robot's eyes. The robot's eyes are LEDs
    and those are lights that are either on or
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    off. It's a binary system, one or the other.
    We can use the lights to represent binary
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    numbers. If we have a set of robots, we can
    say that the first robot is the 1s place and
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    the second robot is the 2s place, the third
    robot is the 4s place and so on. That's how
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    you represent a binary number. The robots
    will do it with their binary eyes and count it out for you.
Title:
Unplugged - Binary Bracelets
Video Language:
English
Duration:
01:33

English subtitles

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