What it says on the tin.

BeetBox from Scott Garner on Vimeo. "BeetBox is a simple instrument that allows users to play drum beats by touching actual beets. It is powered by a Raspberry Pi with a capacitive sensing board and an audio amplifier in a hand-made wooden enclosure."

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Designer Helmut Smit demonstrates how to make fire using only resources available in an IKEA. For, you know, if you are ever stranded in an IKEA with no rescue in sight, and need to fend off predators.

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Welcome to Air Middle Earth....

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That totally did not go where I expected.

I sincerely hope we someday meet extraterrestrial sentients, just so I have the opportunity to nonchalantly say, "Yeah, that was us. I'm with those guys."

I trust all the computer people here have seen the great classic Sorting Out Sorting. Now, some folks at Sapientia University, in Romania, have made a series of educational videos about sorting algorithms. With folk dancers.

Quick-Sort (Hungarian, Küküllőmenti legényes)
Merge-sort (Transylvanian-Saxon)
Insert-sort (Romanian)
Select-sort (Gypsy)
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Previously. (Very highly recommended, and it makes the rest better if you start there.)

From Matt's About page: Eventually Matt decided there was one thing left he wanted to say that the other videos hadn't quite said. He knew it was the sort of thing that was going to make a sponsor uneasy, and he kind of wanted to own his work anyway, so he ( Read more... )

AUGH!!! THE CUTE!!! IT BUUURRRRRRNNNNNSSSS!!!!!

I am never getting anything done ever again.

Dalek Relaxation Tape. What it says on the tin. Via metafilter.