I made a little electronic gadget that can display siteswap states.

States are typically represented as a series of binary digits, such as 1011 or sometimes X-XX. On the Siteswap State Toy the states are represented with LEDs.

In the video below I demonstrate the device and explain how states work:

I hope that this toy and the video make it easier for people to understand siteswap and states.

I encourage anyone who is interested to build a Siteswap State Toy themselves. You need the following hardware:

  • A Raspberry Pi Pico
  • 9 LEDs
  • 10 buttons
  • 10 1k resistors
  • 1 10k resistor
  • a breadboard
  • some wire

Despite this blog being about notation, I ironically did not create a schematic diagram for this project. Should someone get stuck wiring all the components feel free to message me.

The code is written in Python, anyone is free to use or modify it however they need.