Fun - What happened in my birth year? - StumbleUpon. 10 Fun, Weird and Interesting Facts. Old Gadgets Play 'House of the Rising Sun', Put Your New Gadgets to Shame | PCWorld. Meet the band: HP Scanjet 3P, Adaptec SCSI card and a computer powered by Ubuntu v9.10 OS as the Vocals. (hey, the scanner is old)Atari 800XL with an EiCO Oscilloscope as the OrganTexas instrument Ti-99/4A with a Tektronix Oscilloscope as the GuitarHard-drive powered by a PiC16F84A microcontroller as the bass drum and cymbal Though this isn’t the first “out-of-date gadgets play music” story we’ve done (dangerously close to my third Janet Jackson joke, there), what’s particularly neat is the symphonic nature of the arrangement.
Bass, melody, chords, and even percussion… it comes off sounding not too far from the music soundtrack from a mid-90’s video game. If you indulge yourself in a few minutes to watch the video (which you really should), you’ll get a bit of a kick out of the scanner crawling forth as it whines out the melody. [YouTube via Engadget] Like this? Fun - Drinkify - StumbleUpon. Relativity - StumbleUpon. GIF Dumps. Your Daily Life in GIFs (4.7.14) Realizing you left your phone at home: (more…) Extreme Japanese Apologizing is Super Impressive (7 GIFs) In Japan, when you really screw up sometimes a verbal apology isn’t enough. Here, the practice of groveling is taken to a hilarious extreme. (more…) Fun - what time is it? - animaclock. Neonflames - StumbleUpon.