Posts Tagged youtube
Mutant Machines
Posted by Brett in Other Uselessness, Useless, YouTube Videos on August 12, 2011
Over in Denmark a hacker called Berthos concluded:
that it was time to waste time bigtime.
In other words, time to build a useless-ish machine. Using parts gathered from his local makerspace and hackerclub, his goals were:
- no useful function
- moving parts
- simple yet complex
- user interaction
- blinking lights
- entertain users and observers
A video of the machine follows the break:
4,000,000 YouTube Views
Posted by Brett in Other Uselessness, Useless, YouTube Videos on November 30, 2010
The Useless Machine video has just cracked four million views! For me, this is a big thing. I know it’s no David After the Dentist, but still my mind boggles.
Four million is such a big number you need to break things down to something the mind can grasp: four million views times 19 seconds = 2.4 years of Useless Viewing. Good thing I didn’t make the video any longer!
Now that’s just taking into account the video. What about the time folks have spend building and playing with Useless Machines?
I have no idea how many people have actually built machines but it must be in the thousands… Read the rest of this entry »
Useless Android App with Added Flatulence
Posted by Brett in Useless, Useless Apps, YouTube Videos on November 29, 2010
This is the third Useless Machine App that I’ve seen. The others were for the iPhone, so it’s good to see an Open Source version. And there seems to be a flatulence mode.
It’s a free download, and might not even contain any malevolent code…
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Quality Assurance at the Useless Machine Factory
Posted by Brett in Other Uselessness, Useless, YouTube Videos on November 29, 2010
As you can see in the video above, our Quality Assurance Technicians strive to ensure the finest of craftsmanship as well as durability! And they demonstrate another reason why one Useless Machine is not enough.
Via: YouTube Search of Useless Machine
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Ultimate Machine Counts Pwnage
Posted by Brett in Other Uselessness, Useless, YouTube Videos on November 28, 2010
The earliest reference to the Ultimate Machine that I’ve found is by Arthur C. Clarke from the August 1958 issue of Harper’s Magazine article (also in his book Voice Across the Sea: p. 159, Revised edition, New York: Harper & Row, 1959 and 1974):
With this description in mind, Michal Zalewski has posted about his second build of an Ultimate Machine.
As he says on his build page Shannon’s Ultimate Machine, take 2, the goal was to build an Ultimate Machine that was “elegant, simple, and chillingly sinister”. It’s using an Atmega48P micro-controller and it has a display showing a count of how many times the switch has been toggled.
