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Merce Death plays a guitar with the tesla coil. Pretty cool – but it doesn’t beat Mark Smart’s outrageous tesla coil prog synth work.
via hackaday

Lots of great comments this week:
The “most offensive gear ad ever” continues to generate contoversy, with mattavene weighing in with this comment: “I am offended by this perverted publicity, the perverted inclination of associating something attractive with Decadance, or, seen from the other way, making the idea of Decadance look beautiful.”
We recently wondered why Minneapolis [...]

OT: It’s been a while since I posted something truly stupidtacular, but I think this qualifies:

Jason Bradbury does “Caterpillar Breakdance” on the streets of London.

If this isn’t stupidtacular, I just don’t know what is.
Modd3d decided to add MIDI control to his microwave. You can see the results above.
This could come in handy at gigs. Right before you take a break, you could heat up some snacks and maybe makes some blender drinks with a few discreet notes on your [...]

Here are some of the posts that have been generating some interesting discussion this week.
If you haven’t weighed in on them yet, check out what others are saying and then add your two cents worth!

Minneapolis Hates Kraftwerk – the Minneapolis Star Tribune says that Kraftwerk’s show there was a snoozer – “With all the flair [...]

Excerpt from Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in Dm

I’ve been getting some criticism lately for calling things stupidtacular.
Some things, like programming Chuck E Cheese robots to sing Miss New Booty, or a $1,000 iPod dock, are just awesomely stupid.
Tesla coil music may fall into the same category.
Joe DiPrima and Oliver Greaves of ArcAttack use “a unique [...]

This is sort of stupidtacular – Roland has introduced the C-30 Digital Harpsichord. It’s also a sign that the technology is getting cheap and good enough to be irrelevant for a lot of types of instruments, so packaging starts making more of a difference.
Description:
Roland’s “click action” F-scale keyboard provides an authentic harpsichord feel, while two [...]

This is sort of stupidtacular, but at least it can handle the Prodigy.
Here’s how it works:
A hard drive voice coil circuit is hacked to allow it to be directly connected to a stereo output. This allows audio to move the hard drive read write head. Mirrors are positioned on the center of the platter and [...]

Chris has been working on his animatronic programming and guess what – the Chuck-E-Cheese robots now do gangsta rap.
Check out their cover of Ms. New Booty:

Here’s a little background on what goes into these stupidtacular animatronic shows:

Shanling’s $995 iPod dock/CD Player/Tuner & tube power amp may be stupidtacular, but check out the tubes on the thing!
Here are the details:
The Shanling MC-30 Music Center is a brushed aluminum CD player and tuner with 3 watts per channel, single ended tube amplifier section, fully remote controlled with a built in iPod [...]