We like pinball. We like classic NES games. Accordingly, it doesn’t take much deduction to know that we really, really like Skit-B Pinball’s Duck Hunt pinball machine. It has a fully mechanical, themed pinball machine below, but there’s also a PC up top that replicates the images and sounds of Nintendo’s light gun video game in sync with the analog action. The conversion of a Williams Valiant took about a year of off-hours work to finish, and it shows — the attention to detail is what we’d expect if Gunpei Yokoi had put all his energy into pinball instead. Our only lament is that the Duck Hunt machine is a side project, and it likely won’t escape into the wild. At least there’s a video (after the break) to sate our curiosity.
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Remember the world’s most useless machine — a box that turns off its switch every time you turn it on? Well this is the “Advanced Edition,” a version with EIGHT switches. It was made out of an old printer. My love doll? My love doll was made out of an old refrigerator box. “It looks like a robot.” YOU TAKE THAT BACK.
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It costs $ 1,200 to clear a single landmine. But Afghan designer Massoud Hassani has created a device that costs just €40 (roughly $ 51 U.S.), needs only wind power to operate, and can clear two or three mines in a single trip. In the video above, you can see how his elegant design for the Mine Kafon was inspired by a childhood spent navigating minefields in Afghanistan, and how a simple child’s toy acted as the catalyst for an invention that could change the world.
Teaser trailer for upcoming Windows Phone 7 game “The Machine”. Video Rating: 5 / 5
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Music lovers will often tell you that Roland’s TR-808 gave birth to modern music. Acid house, rap, techno and other genres owe some of their original (and even current) sounds to that synthetic beat. Moritz Simon Geist appreciates the effort, but has built a solution for those who think the drum machine is a little too perfect: his MR-808 installation has robot limbs playing all the equivalent real-world instruments, right down to the cowbell. A laptop musician at the helm sends MIDI input to an Arduino controller that then triggers the robot’s instrument motors and matching lights. The effect is a unique mix of flawless cues with imprecise, almost organic sounds — imagine 808 State or Kanye West replacing each and every machine with a live band and you’ve got the idea. Although the sheer size of the MR-808 sadly nixes chances you’ll ever see one at the local nightclub, it could give any of Geist’s recorded music one of the more distinct vibes we’ve heard.
MR-808 recreates Roland drum machine with robot instruments, puts them in an 808 State (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Alt-week peels back the covers on some of the more curious sci-tech stories from the last seven days.
Sometimes we wonder, what would we have ended up doing if we didn’t spend our time trawling the web for the week’s best alternative tech stories? We could have been paleontologists, novelists, engineers, or if we were really lucky, worked for Google. Instead, here we are bringing you some of the more colorful tech-tales from the last seven days, which we’re really not complaining about. That said though, at least on this occasion, we got to taste a bit of all the above. This is alt-week.
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Alt-week 9.15.12: The ultimate wind machine, Egyptian Lego and the office of our dreams originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Farason serves many industries by combining conventional rotary dial machine principles with robotic material handling to increase production efficiency for a variety of assembly and packaging operations such as liquid and powder filling, weighing, tray unloading and loading, laser coding, screwing, induction sealing, part assembly, labeling and welding. Music: “Rost Beef” by Phlex Video Rating: 0 / 5
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This is a video of a guy playing the opening to Vader’s ‘Imperial March’ on the buttons of what is quite possibly the fanciest washing machine I’ve ever seen. The washing machines in my apartment complex? They have one setting: ‘FAIL TO GET ANY STAINS OUT’. And the dryers? Three settings: ‘still wet’, ‘stranger’s pubes’, and ‘stranger’s pubes plus pet hair’. I swear sometimes I should just move back into my car.
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