Weekend Fun: Mr. Freeze’s Sound System

Students of Michigan Technological University have created a 20,000-Watt sound system made of snow, wood and speakers. Combining a statewide snow sculpture competition and their Winter Carnival, the students created this entire sound system by hand with the sole goal of making it “Loud As &%#$!” According to a recent forum post the creators wanted to: “to saturate the county with Rock, and yes, you can hear it...

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Weekend Fun: Juke Bots

The good Germans at RobotLab have programmed two Kuka industrial robotic arms to perform as scratch DJs. How the blokes at RobotLab bamboozled Kuka into loaning them the bots to scratch records is beyond us, but lets just say, its a lot of fun. The robots are programmed to play several selections from the eleven records that surround the pair of robots on stands. In front of each Kuka is a Technics 1200. The robot then retrieves one...

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