Friday: outsmarted by our two-year-old

Circuits have been out the last few days. Isaac made one that he calls "the flashlight". It is two LEDs in parallel with a normal light and switch. When you turn the circuit on, the LEDs turn on. When you hold down the switch, the normal light also comes on.

Joshua was playing with it and, I think with only one jumper wire, managed to make it so that if you hold down the switch the normal light turns on and the LEDs turn off. I had tried to do this before, so I made a note of what he did and continued on my way.

Isaac thought it was cool, but then took it apart. He may have changed a few things, but not too much.

But then neither Ben nor I could recreate what Joshua did. I spent about five minutes working on it, Ben spent about 15. We were out-smarted, rather literally, by our two year old.

(Here is Joshua with his circuit. At one point it made an obnoxious sound, but then I disconnected one of the battery terminals and he just put the jumpers all over.)