Break the code
Qxpoa gvp pbuu: Cryptography. An encrypted text appears on the monitor. The challenge is to decrypt it with as few errors as possible. But there are over four…
Digital puppet theatre
Connect the various motors, switches and plugs together and make all the figures dance to your will.
Elusive Mirror
Look into the magic mirror. Can you outsmart it?
Encoding Text - Caesar’s disc
« Caesar’s Wheel » Encoding and decoding with two rows of letters that can be shifted relative to each other. Even in Caesar’s time, information was protected…
Misty Messages
Two patterns, one image. From a distance, the surface on the plate looks like grey fog. But when we place a second plate exactly on top, an image is…
Plantoid
Brilliantly programmed: assign colors, define sequences. This tree lights up just the way you like it. Colors, gradients, frequencies, and sequences – you…
Population Growth
How fast – and where? Current population figures displayed on a world map, by continent and overall. For each continent, the counters show how many people…
Seeing atoms
Ion Trap: One of a kind worldwide! Invisible particles, which we otherwise know only from textbook illustrations, become visible here. In an ion trap,…
Template Code
Untangling the letter jumble. Perfectly possible, with the right template. Using it in reverse, you can encrypt a 36-letter message, almost impossible for…
Your Birthday in Pi
Ten million decimal places. Somewhere in π lies your birthday or your license plate number. This computer station can find any six-digit combination. At…
Mission possible - Roboter bauen
Euer Team aus Entdeckungsfreudigen und Wissenschaftsbegeisterten hat einen mysteriösen Planeten entdeckt. Eure Mission? Das Geheimnis lüften, ob hier Leben…
Small building blocks, big effects: Design your chain reaction
A small impulse can change the world. The flap of a butterfly's wings that triggers a hurricane on the other side of the world, or the cry of a mountain…
Step by step - Language of the robots
Access to a foreign country is always through language. If we want to find our way around in this country and communicate, we have to learn its language. The…
Acoustics
Aggregate states
Algorithms
Animals, plants, habitats
Atomic and quantum physics
Atomic structure
Automats
Biology
Buoyancy
Chaos
Characteristics of life
Chemical Reactions
Chemistry
Colors
Cryptology
Currents
Data and information
Design elements
Earth sciences
Electricity
Electricity and energy
Electricity and magnetism
Elektromagnetismus
Encryption
