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Instruments from the inside: the grand piano action, bowed strings on violin and cello, organ, trumpet, flute, saxophone, handpan, guitar and keyboard. Cut them open, play them yourself and hear how the sound is made.
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A concert grand to cut open: 88 simulated actions, the key throws the hammer, the jack escapes, the hammer flies free and rebounds. Slow motion, key by hand, repetition, pedals, partials of stiff strings and stretched tuning.
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A cello standing on its endpin, bowed by you, with sound computed in real time. Its body resonances sit inside the playing range: on one note the tone stutters, the wolf tone. More bow force or the wolf eliminator tames it. Plays the prelude from Bach’s Suite No. 1 with every bow stroke. Cross-section with high ribs, sound post and bass bar.
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A violin you bow yourself, with sound computed in real time from a physical model: the bow carries the string, it snaps free, a corner travels around. Playing map of force and contact point, body on and off, cross-section with sound post and bass bar.
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A pipe organ with 876 pipes to play yourself, with sound computed in real time from partials. The key opens a pallet, the stop connects a row of pipes, and each pipe plays one note. Cut it open down to the windchest, blend pitch levels, change the wind pressure, see flue and reed pipes in section, and follow Bach’s Toccata and a chorale.
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A B-flat trumpet to play yourself, with sound computed in real time from a physical model. The lips are the sound source: their tension selects a harmonic, and the three valves lengthen the tube. One valve setting gives several notes. See-through, it shows the air path, pistons and standing wave.
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A flute to play yourself, with sound computed in real time from a physical model. An air jet tips back and forth at the edge of the mouth hole, and the tube sets the beat. Blow harder and it jumps to the octave; open holes shorten the standing wave. Fingerings, pressure and angle are free, and the flute also plays Bach and Gluck.
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An alto saxophone to cut open and play: the reed vibrates on the mouthpiece, a standing pressure wave fills the conical bore, and the topmost open tone hole sets its length. Octave key, fingering chart, sound via Web Audio and a comparison with the clarinet’s cylinder (octave vs twelfth, spectrum).
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A handpan in D Kurd to play: each tone field vibrates in three eigenmodes tuned to fundamental, octave and twelfth (1 : 2 : 3), with nodal lines and spectrum. Plus the build from nitrided half-shells, the body as a Helmholtz resonator and tuning via curvature and tension.
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Steel-string, classical and electric guitar at true dimensions on stage: string × fret gives the note, the frets get closer towards the body, fret 12 halves the string. With chord shapes, a note finder, a capo and physically modelled sound.
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A clickable keyboard over several octaves: note names (C D E F G A B), octave and frequency per key, the tone sounds. Semitones, octave, accidentals.
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Symphony orchestra on the concert stage with all instrument families, in German and American seating. A timeline following the plan of Ravel's Boléro shows how the crescendo grows from more and more instruments. The same note on different instruments makes the overtone spectrum and the attack visible as the basis of timbre.
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Sentence structure, participles, the accusative with infinitive, verb forms, sequence of tenses, small words, rhetorical figures and the hexameter in real passages from Seneca and Ovid.
8 appsOpen collection
Galvanic cells, reaction mechanisms, equilibrium and the Haber-Bosch process, acids and bases, dyes, plastics, intermolecular forces and molecular structure to try out.
18 appsOpen collection
Photoelectric effect, potential well, Franck-Hertz, Millikan, diffraction gratings, standing waves, particles in fields, induction and oscillations to try out.
23 appsOpen collection
Gene regulation, PCR, genetic crosses, protein biosynthesis, evolution, cellular respiration, hormones and ecosystems to try out.
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Planning and steering projects: the iron triangle, stakeholders, network diagrams, earned value, schedule risk, team size, Kanban and waterfall against Scrum.
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From sequences to loans: arithmetic and geometric growth, savings plans, annuities, compounding within the year and perpetuities.
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Reading the traces: burial mounds in section, radiocarbon dating, settlements in the landscape and the tomb of Tutankhamun.
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Why robot arms are heavy, how six axes guide a hand and how control holds the load.
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Tables, keys, joins, groups and subqueries you can touch: how a database really reads.
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Generative AI in strong images: what it can do, how it writes, why it convinces, how to use it well and where to take care.
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Engine, brakes, high voltage, CAN bus and chassis: technology and diagnostics of the modern vehicle.
9 appsOpen collection
Heat in the city centre: heat islands, shade, trees and unsealing, using the old town of Reutlingen as an example.
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Reading the small print, spotting subscription traps, placing risk figures and making texts understandable.
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From equation to curve: initial values, linear equations, substitution and the worlds in which they apply.
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Rules and physics in sport: offside in football, spin and the Magnus effect, the walls in padel.
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From area to the integral: Riemann sums, antiderivatives, integration rules, units and improper integrals.
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Mean, median, mode, box plot and levels of measurement: descriptive statistics to try out.
9 appsOpen collection
From coordinates to the inverse: vectors, dot and cross products, linear equations and matrices in pictures.
14 appsOpen collection
Production principles, waste, one-piece flow, value streams, bills of materials and routing: how a factory is organised.
9 appsOpen collection
What the CRA requires of manufacturers: checking whether it applies, meeting reporting deadlines, keeping software bills of materials.
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Reducing, common denominators, multiplying, dividing and mixed numbers: fractions step by step.
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Proofs of special beauty to touch: Zagier's windmills, the museum guards and Buffon's needle.
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How oscillations break down: coefficients, symmetry, phasor chains, the Gibbs phenomenon and the plucked string.
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What happens inside the machine: objects, methods, operators, slicing and sorting in Python, visible step by step.
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From the Patent Motor Car to the Z3: famous machines and experiments cut open in 3D.
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Keyboard, intervals, scales, chords, the circle of fifths and groove: music theory you hear and play.
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How sound is made and shaped: synthesizers and samplers, envelopes and overtones, waveforms and timbre, voice and orchestra, room acoustics and sound scenography — all audible in your browser.
22 appsOpen collection
Staging space, sight, light, sound and paths: visitor flows, showcase lighting, room acoustics, sound islands, projection mapping and the pavilions of world expos to try out.
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Mathematical questions open for decades, for which an AI model proposed solutions in 2026, as interactive apps: understand the problem, experience the result.
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From neurons and gradients to transformers, RLHF and agents: machine learning you can touch.
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DNA, replication, transcription, translation and cell division as explorable 3D models.
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Perspective, ornament, structure and space: how art and architecture work with mathematics.
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Hyperloop, autonomous vehicles, warehouses and conveyors: logistics as interactive simulation.
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Heart, eye, voice, skeleton and nerves: the human body in 3D, layer by layer.
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Monty Hall, Simpson, Berkson and base rates: where intuition fails us with numbers.
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Planets, stars, black holes and space probes: the cosmos to explore.
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Light switches for nerve cells, a telescope made of ice, mirror-image chemistry and interest rates: the 2026 Nobel Prizes to try out.
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Planted participants, smoke in the room, one dollar for a lie and experimenters who are themselves the subjects: famous social psychology experiments to try yourself.
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Relations, classes, orders, bijections, different infinities and topology: mathematics as the science of structure, hands-on.
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Riemann, P vs NP, Poincaré and other great questions of mathematics, made tangible.
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Counting, arithmetic and shapes: maths for beginners, playful and clear.
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