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Ayah Bdeir: Building blocks that blink, beep and teach
Ayah Bdeir: Byggeklodser, der blinker, bipper og underviser
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Forestil dig et elektroniksæt som er lige så nemt at lege med som Lego. TED Fellow Ayah Bdeir introducerer littleBits, et sæt simple, indbyrdes udskiftelige klodser som gør programmering lige så simpel og vigtig en del af kreativitet som det at klikke klodser sammen.
Ayah Bdeir - Engineer and artist
Ayah Bdeir is an engineer and artist, and is the founder of littleBits and karaj, an experimental art, architecture and technology lab in Beirut. Full bio
Ayah Bdeir is an engineer and artist, and is the founder of littleBits and karaj, an experimental art, architecture and technology lab in Beirut. Full bio
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This may sound strange,
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Det kan lyde underligt,
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but I'm a big fan of the concrete block.
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men jeg er en stor fan af betonblokke.
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The first concrete blocks were manufactured in 1868
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De første betonblokke blev fremstillet i 1868
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with a very simple idea:
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ud fra en meget enkel idé:
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modules made of cement of a fixed measurement
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moduler lavet af cement med faste mål,
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that fit together.
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der passer sammen.
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Very quickly concrete blocks became
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Meget hurtigt blev betonblokke
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the most-used construction unit in the world.
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det mest benyttede byggemateriale i verden.
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They enabled us to to build things that were larger than us,
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De gjorde os i stand til at lave ting, som var større end os,
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buildings, bridges,
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bygninger, broer,
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one brick at a time.
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én blok ad gangen.
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Essentially concrete blocks had become
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Betonklodserne gik hen og blev
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the building block of our time.
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vor tids byggeklods.
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Almost a hundred years later in 1947,
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Næsten hundrede år senere, i 1947,
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LEGO came up with this.
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fandt LEGO på dette.
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It was called the Automatic Binding Brick.
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Det blev kaldt den automatisk bindende klods.
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And in a few short years,
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Og på et par korte år,
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LEGO bricks took place in every household.
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fik LEGO klodsen en plads i enhver husholdning.
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It's estimated that over 400 billion bricks have been produced --
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Det anslåes, at der er produceret mere end 400 milliarder klodser --
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or 75 bricks for every person on the planet.
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eller 75 klodser for hver person på planeten.
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You don't have to be an engineer
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Du behøver ikke at være ingeniør
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to make beautiful houses, beautiful bridges, beautiful buildings.
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for at bygge smukke huse, smukke broer, smukke bygninger.
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LEGO made it accessible.
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LEGO gjorde det tilgængeligt.
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LEGO has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world,
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LEGO har taget betonklodsen, verdens byggeklods,
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and made it into the building block
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og gjort den til vores
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of our imagination.
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fantasis byggeklods.
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Meanwhile the exact same year,
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Altimens i nøjagtig det samme år,
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at Bell Labs the next revolution was about to be announced,
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var Bell Labs på vej til at kunne annoncere den næste revolution,
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the next building block.
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den næste byggeklods.
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The transistor was a small plastic unit
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Transistoren var en lille plastikenhed,
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that would take us from a world
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der skulle tage os fra en verden
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of static bricks piled on top of each other
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af statiske klodser stablet oven på hinanden
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to a world where everything was interactive.
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til en verden, hvor alt var interaktivt.
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Like the concrete block,
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Ligesom betonklodsen,
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the transistor allows you to build
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giver transistoren dig mulighed for at bygge
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much larger, more complex circuits, one brick at a time.
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meget større, mere komplekse kredsløb, én klods ad gangen.
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But there's a main difference:
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Men der er en vigtig forskel:
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The transistor was only for experts.
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Transistoren var kun for eksperter.
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I personally don't accept this,
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Personligt accepterer jeg ikke,
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that the building block of our time
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at vor tids byggeklods
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is reserved for experts,
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er forbeholdt eksperter,
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so I decided to change that.
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så det besluttede jeg mig for at ændre.
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Eight years ago when I was at the Media Lab,
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For otte år siden, da jeg var hos Media Lab,
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I started exploring this idea
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begyndte jeg at udforske idéen
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of how to put the power of engineers
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om at lægge ingeniørens magt
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in the hands of artists and designers.
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i hænderne på kunstnere og designere.
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A few years ago I started developing littleBits.
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For et par år siden begyndte jeg at udvikle littleBits.
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Let me show you how they work.
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Lad mig vise, hvordan de fungerer.
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LittleBits are electronic modules
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LittleBits er elektroniske moduler
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with each one specific function.
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med hver én bestemt funktion.
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They're pre-engineered
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De er på forhånd udviklet
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to be light, sound,
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til at være lys, lyd,
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motors and sensors.
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motorer og sensorer.
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And the best part about it
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Og det bedste af det hele
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is they snap together with magnets.
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er, at de klikkes sammen med magneter.
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So you can't put them the wrong way.
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Så man kan ikke sætte dem forkert sammen.
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The bricks are color-coded.
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Klodserne er farvekodede.
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Green is output, blue is power,
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Grøn er output, blå er strøm,
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pink is input and orange is wire.
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pink er input og orange er ledning.
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So all you need to do is snap a blue to a green
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Så alt hvad man behøver at gøre, er at klikke en blå til en grøn,
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and very quickly you can start making larger circuits.
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og meget hurtigt kan man bygge større kredsløb.
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You put a blue to a green,
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Man sætter en blå til en grøn,
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you can make light.
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og du har lys.
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You can put a knob in between
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Man sætter en drejeknap imellem,
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and now you've made a little dimmer.
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og man har lavet en lysdæmper.
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Switch out the knob
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Skift drejeknappen ud
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for a pulse module,
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med et puls-modul,
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which is here,
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som er her,
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and now you've made a little blinker.
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og nu har du lavet en lille blinker.
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Add this buzzer
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Tilføj denne summer
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for some extra punch
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for lidt ekstra slagkraft,
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and you've created a noise machine.
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og du har lavet dig en støjmaskine.
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I'm going to stop that.
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Jeg stopper den lige.
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So beyond simple play,
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Så ud over simpel leg,
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littleBits are actually pretty powerful.
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er littleBits faktisk temmelig kraftfulde.
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Instead of having to program, to wire, to solder,
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I stedet for at skulle programmere, trække ledninger, og lodde
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littleBits allow you to program
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gør littleBits dig i stand til at programmere
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using very simple intuitive gestures.
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ved brug af enkle intuitive handlinger.
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So to make this blink faster or slower,
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For at gøre dette blink hurtigere eller langsommere,
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you would just turn this knob
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vrider man blot denne drejeknap,
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and basically make it pulse faster or slower.
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og gør helt grundlæggende pulsen hurtigere eller langsommere.
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The idea behind littleBits
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Tanken bag littleBits er,
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is that it's a growing library.
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at det skal være et voksende bibliotek.
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We want to make every single interaction in the world
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Vi ønsker at omdanne hver enkelt interaktion i verden
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into a ready-to-use brick.
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til en klods, der er klar til brug.
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Lights, sounds, solar panels, motors --
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Lys, lyde, solpaneler, motorer --
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everything should be accessible.
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alt bør være tilgængeligt.
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We've been giving littleBits to kids and seeing them play with them.
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Vi har givet littleBits til børn og set dem lege med dem.
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And it's been an incredible experience.
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Og det har været en utrolig oplevelse.
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The nicest thing is how they start to understand
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Det bedste er at se, hvordan de begynder at forstå
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the electronics around them from everyday
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hverdagens elektronik omkring dem,
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that they don't learn at schools.
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som de ikke lærer om i skolen.
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For example, how a nightlight works,
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For eksempel, hvordan en vågelampe fungerer,
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or why an elevator door stays open,
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eller hvorfor en elevatordør forbliver åben,
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or how an iPod responds to touch.
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eller hvordan en iPod reagerer på tryk.
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We've also been taking littleBits to design schools.
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Vi har også haft littleBits med på designskoler.
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So for example, we've had designers
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Vi har for eksempel haft designere
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with no experience with electronics whatsoever
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uden nogen erfaring med elektronik overhovedet
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start to play with littleBits as a material.
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som begynde at lege med littleBits som materiale.
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Here you see, with felt and paper water bottles,
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Her se man hvordan vi med filt og papir-vandflasker,
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we have Geordie making ...
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gjorde Geordie i stand til at lave...
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(Clanging)
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(Hamren)
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(Buzzing)
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(Summen)
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A few weeks ago we took littleBits to RISD
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For et par uger siden tog vi littleBits med til RISD
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and gave them to some designers
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og gav dem til nogle designere
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with no experience in engineering whatsoever --
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uden erfaring med elektronik overhovedet --
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just cardboard, wood and paper -- and told them "Make something."
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bare pap, træ og papir -- og bad dem om at "lave noget".
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Here's an example of a project they made,
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Her er et eksempel på et projekt, de lavede,
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a motion-activated confetti canon ball.
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en bevægelsesaktiveret konfetti kanonkugle.
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(Laughter)
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(Latter)
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But wait, this is actually my favorite project.
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Men vent, dette er faktisk mit favoritprojekt.
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It's a lobster made of playdough
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Det er en hummer lavet af modellervoks,
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that's afraid of the dark.
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som er bange for mørke.
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(Laughter)
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(Latter)
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To these non-engineers, littleBits became another material,
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For disse ikke-ingeniører blev littleBits til endnu et materiale,
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electronics became just another material.
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elektronik blev blot endnu et materiale.
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And we want to make this material accessible to everyone.
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Og det vi vil er at gøre dette materiale tilgængeligt for alle.
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So littleBits is open-source.
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Så littleBits er open source.
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You can go on the website, download all the design files, make them yourself.
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På hjemmesiden kan alle designfilerne hentes, du kan lave dem selv.
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We want to encourage a world
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Vi ønsker at tilskynde en verden
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of creators, of inventors, of contributors,
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af skabere, af opfindere, af bidragsydere,
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because this world that we live in,
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fordi denne verden, vi lever i,
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this interactive world, is ours.
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denne interaktive verden, er vores.
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So go ahead and start inventing.
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Så bare kom i gang med at opfinde.
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Thank you.
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Tak.
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(Applause)
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(Bifald)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ayah Bdeir - Engineer and artistAyah Bdeir is an engineer and artist, and is the founder of littleBits and karaj, an experimental art, architecture and technology lab in Beirut.
Why you should listen
Ayah Bdeir is the creator of littleBits, an open source system of preassembled, modular circuits that snap together with magnets – making learning about electronics fun, easy and creative. An engineer, inventor and interactive artist, Ayah received her master’s degree from the MIT Media Lab and undergraduate degrees in computer engineering and sociology from the American University of Beirut. Ayah has taught graduate classes at NYU and Parsons and taught numerous workshops to get non-engineers – particularly young girls – interested in science and technology. She is also the founder of karaj, Beirut’s lab for experimental art, architecture and technology. littleBits was named Best of Toyfair, has won the editor’s Choice award from MAKE magazine, and has been acquired by MoMA for its collection.
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