I’ve been experimenting with the idea of making guitar strings magnetically hover/float — so they’re not actually attached to the bridge at all. Only the magnetic force holds the strings in place. I made a video where I try different magnets and posted it to see what you engineers think. Right now, I feel like it has potential, but due to physics, the effect doesn’t look as cool as I’d like it to.
Here’s the video where I test a bunch of magnets — from weak to finger-crushing power
I find the idea intriguing of growing a guitar from a seed. Like, imagine instead of building a guitar for 100s of hours — you make a framework or template that a tree can grow around or inside of.
I got the idea from hearing about a hobby called “arborsculpting,” which is basically shaping a tree as it grows into functional objects, like a chair. It surprised me how much control you can actually have over the way a tree grows.
Anyway, the main issue with this idea seems to be the time it would take. Even using the fastest-growing tree in Europe (willow), it would probably take 1–2 years to grow a guitar. But willow is a very weak wood, so it likely wouldn’t be able to hold much string tension.
So I looked into more exotic options, such as bamboo. Bamboo is the fastest-growing plant and it’s also very strong. However, from my research, bamboo might grow fast, but most of the time it stays dormant in the root system, then randomly shoots up a fast-growing stalk. Bamboo is also not nearly as shapeable or able to fuse into itself the way wood can. So the aesthetics wouldn’t be very nice.
I’m putting this out there to see if any of you engineers have ideas or out-of-the-box solutions for the “growing a guitar from a seed” idea.
I’ve been playing some blues the last days with my octopus on piano. But I thought maybe there is some other genre Tako might prefer. Like heavy metal? Let me know your ideas. I could accompany him with some powerchords. Or even bass.
Engineers! I need your help figuring out how to teach my octopus piano. This video I show all the attempts and piano designs I have created for Takoyaki. Let me know in the video what I should try to finish this video!
I'm a bit stuck teaching my octopus, Takoyaki, how to play piano. But this is what he can do so far. I think I’ll reduce the number of keys and make it a bit more playable for the next version of the piano. I've tried all kinds of tricks—keys with LED lights inside (he hated those), keys that move, even keys with a fake crab inside. But it seems like he likes this piano the most: a piano with levers that wiggle. I've been trying to teach him Under the sea. But it's tricky, because in the middle of songs he just decides do play his own octopus variation of the song.
I’m currently teaching my octopus how to play piano. His name is Takoyaki and he is the type of octopus you can buy at any grocery store or fishmarket. I can’t believe we eat these guys, when they could be our private pianist instead!
After months of prototyping with him. I finally found a piano design that he can use and practicing on.
I'm really into the idea of teaching an octopus to play the piano. But I wonder—does anyone here have real-life experience with octopuses? Right now all I know they are really smart and has 8 hella nice legs.
I’d like to find someone I can work with to figure out how to teach it, how to design the piano, and a lot more before committing too deeply. Maybe you have contacts with researchers who could be of help.
You can DM me on Discord or talk in engineers-only chat to discuss the idea with other craazy people. discord.gg/6fDvQBaV
So the muting people in real life gun is quite an interesting concept. My first plan was to use phase inversion—basically, listen to the sound wave of the person, then invert it and cancel it out. This works amazingly in audio recording software, but if there is even a 1 millisecond delay between the original audio and the inverted one, it has no effect at all. Also, trying to do this in an outdoor environment using a speaker adds even more issues like audio reflections, etc. But if it were this easy, obviously someone would have already done it. However, there are some Japanese students who, 13 years ago, made a “speech jammer” which uses ultrasonic directional speakers and a directional mic. It listens to the speaker and shoots back their own voice delayed 100–200ms, causing them to not be able to form sentences (there are some studies showing that’s an optimal delay to mess with the brain). You can also see a modern version of this on Benn Jordan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-SH1... Now this is all really cool, but it’s not really muting anyone. So I wonder what out-of-the-box ideas you engineers have on how to approach it. I’ve been trying some ideas, but they don’t really work. I guess shooting duct tape so it covers someone’s mouth is the most effective so far haha.
Mattias Krantz
Mattias Krantz
I’ve been experimenting with the idea of making guitar strings magnetically hover/float — so they’re not actually attached to the bridge at all. Only the magnetic force holds the strings in place. I made a video where I try different magnets and posted it to see what you engineers think. Right now, I feel like it has potential, but due to physics, the effect doesn’t look as cool as I’d like it to.
Here’s the video where I test a bunch of magnets — from weak to finger-crushing power
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I find the idea intriguing of growing a guitar from a seed. Like, imagine instead of building a guitar for 100s of hours — you make a framework or template that a tree can grow around or inside of.
I got the idea from hearing about a hobby called “arborsculpting,” which is basically shaping a tree as it grows into functional objects, like a chair. It surprised me how much control you can actually have over the way a tree grows.
Anyway, the main issue with this idea seems to be the time it would take. Even using the fastest-growing tree in Europe (willow), it would probably take 1–2 years to grow a guitar. But willow is a very weak wood, so it likely wouldn’t be able to hold much string tension.
So I looked into more exotic options, such as bamboo. Bamboo is the fastest-growing plant and it’s also very strong. However, from my research, bamboo might grow fast, but most of the time it stays dormant in the root system, then randomly shoots up a fast-growing stalk. Bamboo is also not nearly as shapeable or able to fuse into itself the way wood can. So the aesthetics wouldn’t be very nice.
I’m putting this out there to see if any of you engineers have ideas or out-of-the-box solutions for the “growing a guitar from a seed” idea.
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I’ve been playing some blues the last days with my octopus on piano. But I thought maybe there is some other genre Tako might prefer. Like heavy metal? Let me know your ideas. I could accompany him with some powerchords. Or even bass.
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Engineers! I need your help figuring out how to teach my octopus piano. This video I show all the attempts and piano designs I have created for Takoyaki. Let me know in the video what I should try to finish this video!
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I'm a bit stuck teaching my octopus, Takoyaki, how to play piano. But this is what he can do so far. I think I’ll reduce the number of keys and make it a bit more playable for the next version of the piano. I've tried all kinds of tricks—keys with LED lights inside (he hated those), keys that move, even keys with a fake crab inside. But it seems like he likes this piano the most: a piano with levers that wiggle.
I've been trying to teach him Under the sea. But it's tricky, because in the middle of songs he just decides do play his own octopus variation of the song.
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Mattias Krantz
What title do you find the most intruiging?
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I’m currently teaching my octopus how to play piano. His name is Takoyaki and he is the type of octopus you can buy at any grocery store or fishmarket. I can’t believe we eat these guys, when they could be our private pianist instead!
After months of prototyping with him. I finally found a piano design that he can use and practicing on.
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Mattias Krantz
I'm really into the idea of teaching an octopus to play the piano. But I wonder—does anyone here have real-life experience with octopuses? Right now all I know they are really smart and has 8 hella nice legs.
I’d like to find someone I can work with to figure out how to teach it, how to design the piano, and a lot more before committing too deeply. Maybe you have contacts with researchers who could be of help.
You can DM me on Discord or talk in engineers-only chat to discuss the idea with other craazy people. discord.gg/6fDvQBaV
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So the muting people in real life gun is quite an interesting concept. My first plan was to use phase inversion—basically, listen to the sound wave of the person, then invert it and cancel it out. This works amazingly in audio recording software, but if there is even a 1 millisecond delay between the original audio and the inverted one, it has no effect at all. Also, trying to do this in an outdoor environment using a speaker adds even more issues like audio reflections, etc. But if it were this easy, obviously someone would have already done it.
However, there are some Japanese students who, 13 years ago, made a “speech jammer” which uses ultrasonic directional speakers and a directional mic. It listens to the speaker and shoots back their own voice delayed 100–200ms, causing them to not be able to form sentences (there are some studies showing that’s an optimal delay to mess with the brain). You can also see a modern version of this on Benn Jordan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-SH1...
Now this is all really cool, but it’s not really muting anyone. So I wonder what out-of-the-box ideas you engineers have on how to approach it. I’ve been trying some ideas, but they don’t really work. I guess shooting duct tape so it covers someone’s mouth is the most effective so far haha.
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I recall asking a year ago what everyone thought about the "shorts" format, and everyone hated it . what do you think about it now?
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