Ayah Bdeir: Building blocks that blink, beep and teach

Translator: Mikkel Kirkgaard Nielsen Reviewer: Asger Bachmann

This may sound strange,

Det kan lyde underligt,

but I'm a big fan of the concrete block.

men jeg er en stor fan af betonblokke.

The first concrete blocks were manufactured in 1868

De første betonblokke blev fremstillet i 1868

with a very simple idea:

ud fra en meget enkel idé:

modules made of cement of a fixed measurement

moduler lavet af cement med faste mål,

that fit together.

der passer sammen.

Very quickly concrete blocks became

Meget hurtigt blev betonblokke

the most-used construction unit in the world.

det mest benyttede byggemateriale i verden.

They enabled us to to build things that were larger than us,

De gjorde os i stand til at lave ting, som var større end os,

buildings, bridges,

bygninger, broer,

one brick at a time.

én blok ad gangen.

Essentially concrete blocks had become

Betonklodserne gik hen og blev

the building block of our time.

vor tids byggeklods.

Almost a hundred years later in 1947,

Næsten hundrede år senere, i 1947,

LEGO came up with this.

fandt LEGO på dette.

It was called the Automatic Binding Brick.

Det blev kaldt den automatisk bindende klods.

And in a few short years,

Og på et par korte år,

LEGO bricks took place in every household.

fik LEGO klodsen en plads i enhver husholdning.

It's estimated that over 400 billion bricks have been produced --

Det anslåes, at der er produceret mere end 400 milliarder klodser --

or 75 bricks for every person on the planet.

eller 75 klodser for hver person på planeten.

You don't have to be an engineer

Du behøver ikke at være ingeniør

to make beautiful houses, beautiful bridges, beautiful buildings.

for at bygge smukke huse, smukke broer, smukke bygninger.

LEGO made it accessible.

LEGO gjorde det tilgængeligt.

LEGO has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world,

LEGO har taget betonklodsen, verdens byggeklods,

and made it into the building block

og gjort den til vores

of our imagination.

fantasis byggeklods.

Meanwhile the exact same year,

Altimens i nøjagtig det samme år,

at Bell Labs the next revolution was about to be announced,

var Bell Labs på vej til at kunne annoncere den næste revolution,

the next building block.

den næste byggeklods.

The transistor was a small plastic unit

Transistoren var en lille plastikenhed,

that would take us from a world

der skulle tage os fra en verden

of static bricks piled on top of each other

af statiske klodser stablet oven på hinanden

to a world where everything was interactive.

til en verden, hvor alt var interaktivt.

Like the concrete block,

Ligesom betonklodsen,

the transistor allows you to build

giver transistoren dig mulighed for at bygge

much larger, more complex circuits, one brick at a time.

meget større, mere komplekse kredsløb, én klods ad gangen.

But there's a main difference:

Men der er en vigtig forskel:

The transistor was only for experts.

Transistoren var kun for eksperter.

I personally don't accept this,

Personligt accepterer jeg ikke,

that the building block of our time

at vor tids byggeklods

is reserved for experts,

er forbeholdt eksperter,

so I decided to change that.

så det besluttede jeg mig for at ændre.

Eight years ago when I was at the Media Lab,

For otte år siden, da jeg var hos Media Lab,

I started exploring this idea

begyndte jeg at udforske idéen

of how to put the power of engineers

om at lægge ingeniørens magt

in the hands of artists and designers.

i hænderne på kunstnere og designere.

A few years ago I started developing littleBits.

For et par år siden begyndte jeg at udvikle littleBits.

Let me show you how they work.

Lad mig vise, hvordan de fungerer.

LittleBits are electronic modules

LittleBits er elektroniske moduler

with each one specific function.

med hver én bestemt funktion.

They're pre-engineered

De er på forhånd udviklet

to be light, sound,

til at være lys, lyd,

motors and sensors.

motorer og sensorer.

And the best part about it

Og det bedste af det hele

is they snap together with magnets.

er, at de klikkes sammen med magneter.

So you can't put them the wrong way.

Så man kan ikke sætte dem forkert sammen.

The bricks are color-coded.

Klodserne er farvekodede.

Green is output, blue is power,

Grøn er output, blå er strøm,

pink is input and orange is wire.

pink er input og orange er ledning.

So all you need to do is snap a blue to a green

Så alt hvad man behøver at gøre, er at klikke en blå til en grøn,

and very quickly you can start making larger circuits.

og meget hurtigt kan man bygge større kredsløb.

You put a blue to a green,

Man sætter en blå til en grøn,

you can make light.

og du har lys.

You can put a knob in between

Man sætter en drejeknap imellem,

and now you've made a little dimmer.

og man har lavet en lysdæmper.

Switch out the knob

Skift drejeknappen ud

for a pulse module,

med et puls-modul,

which is here,

som er her,

and now you've made a little blinker.

og nu har du lavet en lille blinker.

Add this buzzer

Tilføj denne summer

for some extra punch

for lidt ekstra slagkraft,

and you've created a noise machine.

og du har lavet dig en støjmaskine.

I'm going to stop that.

Jeg stopper den lige.

So beyond simple play,

Så ud over simpel leg,

littleBits are actually pretty powerful.

er littleBits faktisk temmelig kraftfulde.

Instead of having to program, to wire, to solder,

I stedet for at skulle programmere, trække ledninger, og lodde

littleBits allow you to program

gør littleBits dig i stand til at programmere

using very simple intuitive gestures.

ved brug af enkle intuitive handlinger.

So to make this blink faster or slower,

For at gøre dette blink hurtigere eller langsommere,

you would just turn this knob

vrider man blot denne drejeknap,

and basically make it pulse faster or slower.

og gør helt grundlæggende pulsen hurtigere eller langsommere.

The idea behind littleBits

Tanken bag littleBits er,

is that it's a growing library.

at det skal være et voksende bibliotek.

We want to make every single interaction in the world

Vi ønsker at omdanne hver enkelt interaktion i verden

into a ready-to-use brick.

til en klods, der er klar til brug.

Lights, sounds, solar panels, motors --

Lys, lyde, solpaneler, motorer --

everything should be accessible.

alt bør være tilgængeligt.

We've been giving littleBits to kids and seeing them play with them.

Vi har givet littleBits til børn og set dem lege med dem.

And it's been an incredible experience.

Og det har været en utrolig oplevelse.

The nicest thing is how they start to understand

Det bedste er at se, hvordan de begynder at forstå

the electronics around them from everyday

hverdagens elektronik omkring dem,

that they don't learn at schools.

som de ikke lærer om i skolen.

For example, how a nightlight works,

For eksempel, hvordan en vågelampe fungerer,

or why an elevator door stays open,

eller hvorfor en elevatordør forbliver åben,

or how an iPod responds to touch.

eller hvordan en iPod reagerer på tryk.

We've also been taking littleBits to design schools.

Vi har også haft littleBits med på designskoler.

So for example, we've had designers

Vi har for eksempel haft designere

with no experience with electronics whatsoever

uden nogen erfaring med elektronik overhovedet

start to play with littleBits as a material.

som begynde at lege med littleBits som materiale.

Here you see, with felt and paper water bottles,

Her se man hvordan vi med filt og papir-vandflasker,

we have Geordie making ...

gjorde Geordie i stand til at lave...

(Clanging)

(Hamren)

(Buzzing)

(Summen)

A few weeks ago we took littleBits to RISD

For et par uger siden tog vi littleBits med til RISD

and gave them to some designers

og gav dem til nogle designere

with no experience in engineering whatsoever --

uden erfaring med elektronik overhovedet --

just cardboard, wood and paper -- and told them "Make something."

bare pap, træ og papir -- og bad dem om at "lave noget".

Here's an example of a project they made,

Her er et eksempel på et projekt, de lavede,

a motion-activated confetti canon ball.

en bevægelsesaktiveret konfetti kanonkugle.

(Laughter)

(Latter)

But wait, this is actually my favorite project.

Men vent, dette er faktisk mit favoritprojekt.

It's a lobster made of playdough

Det er en hummer lavet af modellervoks,

that's afraid of the dark.

som er bange for mørke.

(Laughter)

(Latter)

To these non-engineers, littleBits became another material,

For disse ikke-ingeniører blev littleBits til endnu et materiale,

electronics became just another material.

elektronik blev blot endnu et materiale.

And we want to make this material accessible to everyone.

Og det vi vil er at gøre dette materiale tilgængeligt for alle.

So littleBits is open-source.

Så littleBits er open source.

You can go on the website, download all the design files, make them yourself.

På hjemmesiden kan alle designfilerne hentes, du kan lave dem selv.

We want to encourage a world

Vi ønsker at tilskynde en verden

of creators, of inventors, of contributors,

af skabere, af opfindere, af bidragsydere,

because this world that we live in,

fordi denne verden, vi lever i,

this interactive world, is ours.

denne interaktive verden, er vores.

So go ahead and start inventing.

Så bare kom i gang med at opfinde.

Thank you.

Tak.

(Applause)

(Bifald)