A playground for real-world what-ifs

Small worlds.
Big possibilities.

The everyday, opened up.
Step inside. Change something.
See what happens.

Find your experiment
Studying for an exam? Find your subject and topic
✳Made for curious minds.
Free to explore. Built in Aotearoa.
Inside the lab / 01
Cutaway model of a Kiwi home with its roof lifted off
Assembling your world
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Energy / everyday living

A warmer home.

Simulated model
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Open for exploration19 worlds37 study machinesReal sources. Honest simulations.Aotearoa, New Zealand

01 / The collection

Follow your curiosity.

From your kitchen to the systems that keep
the country moving. There’s a world in here for you.

19 experiments to exploreChoose a world. Make it yours.
02 / Learn by doing

Less memorising.
More “oh, I get it.”

Forces on a downhill bike. Probability in a claw machine. Waves on a record player. Thirty-seven study machines, most of them real-time 3D worlds you can turn, pinch and test, running on the same model that marks your answers.

Meet your study machines Years 9–13
With Allen the dachshund
Allen the black and tan dachshundAllen, your study sidekick
Ride the forcesForces and energy on a downhill trailMelt the ice343 water molecules, heatedBeat the clawProbability in an arcade cabinetBuild an atomProtons, neutrons, shellsSee the soundWaves on a spinning recordRead the landContours on a 3D terrainRun the stallSupply and demand, liveBreed the birdsPunnett squares and gene pools

03 / The idea behind it

Make the invisible
understandable.

Big systems make more sense when you can play with them. These are models you can question, change and learn from.

01

Step inside.

A home, a classroom, a business. Familiar places, with the hidden workings brought into view.

02

Ask “what if?”

Change the inputs. Follow the flow. Find the bottleneck. Test an idea before it meets the real world.

03

Know what’s real.

Public data is named. Simulations are labelled. Assumptions stay visible. You can inspect the thinking.

Public context, where availableStats NZMBIEOpen-MeteoElectricity AuthorityExplore sources inside each model
The lab is only the beginning

What if this was
your world?

Your place. Your customers. Your biggest “what if”. Assembl builds interactive twins around real customer journeys, starting with public information.

Let’s assemble something