Off topic fun

Friday Fun: Floppotron

Return of the floppies: The floppy drives are back with multiplied force. Floppy drives,hard disk and optical scanners make music. Cover of Imperial March by computer hardware orchestra. How does it work? The principle is simple. Every device with an electric motor is able to generate a sound.The sound generated by a motor depends on →

Friday Fun: What happens when you reply to spam email

Suspicious emails: unclaimed insurance bonds, diamond-encrusted safe deposit boxes, close friends marooned in a foreign country. They pop up in our inboxes, and standard procedure is to delete on sight. But what happens when you reply? James Veitch: This is what happens when you reply to spam email | TED Talk | TED.com is a →

The Funniest Electronic Signs on the Open Road

As it turns out, hacked electronic road signs are actually a fairly easy prank to pull off, due to the fact that road workers rarely take the time to lock the boxes that the sign’s keyboards are connected to. This collection of already-hacked signs should be way more than enough to satisfy your funny road →

Friday Fun: Fabricating Performance

The Unity of Dance and Architecture article tells about an ambitious and ingenious blend of mechanical construction and the art of dance, [Syuko Kato] and [Vincent Huyghe] from The Bartlett School of Architecture’s Interactive Architecture Lab have designed a robotic system that creates structures from a dancer’s movements that they have christened Fabricating Performance. Fabricating →

Friday Fun: iPhone in old painting

Tim Cook discovers iPhone in painting from 1670 article: “At one point Tim rushes over and tells me ‘Come take a look, I found a painting with an iPhone on it!’ So he takes my arm and shows me a Rembrandt with a person seemingly holding an iPhone…” Tim Cook finished the story, saying “I always →

Friday Fun: Toa Mata Lego Band

Toa Mata Lego Band Actually Rocks article tells that [Opificio Sonico] has been at the Lego-based robot music making business for a while now. He has released videos on YouTube that shows a definite evolution of his style and the Lego ‘bots technical range. Awesome! Toa Mata Band is known as the World’s first LEGO →