Episode 410: MacPro G5 Cheese Grater with Raspberry Pi 4

A new updated version of the MAYER MOVES dev kit is available now:

slight tweaks and clearer labelling of the pins:

https://aisler.net/p/HAJZPEAG

thanks Andy! glad you like it and if you have ideas for the board , it is opne source  feel free to remix it, to fit your needs

Oh there are some good ones in there! I hope people get the jokes.. it seems that puns or jokes in general are cognitive challenging to the majority of consumers.

Sounds like bitmap shades.

Great episode and useful board.

"what you don't know won't hurt you" - some sort of sensory depriving device a bit like Zaphod Beeblebrox's sunglasses from Douglas Adams'  'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

"Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble, they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-u9lnhx_Hk

On the flip side there is also:

"what you can't see can hurt you" - some sort of wearable device that detects hidden dangers such as air quality monitoring although that perhaps has already been covered by the Safe and Sound design challenge.

Maybe not jokes to projects but how about proverbs to projects ?

Not sure how well some of these will translate to other languages, but some that spring to mind to get the creative juices flowing:

• 'A picture is worth a thousand words' - some sort of generative art display (Processing language?)  made from a wordlist comprising of 1,000 words.

• 'A watched pot never boils' - hob control system which detects and prevents a pot from boiling over.

• 'One man's trash is another man's treasure' - upcycling / recycling type project.

• 'The pen is mightier than the sword' - a project that takes a simple everyday object that does something more interesting with it. Ideally it would be a pen but that may be a little too small to work with, however it could also be used as some sort of lever or actuator that starts or is used in a process.

• 'Actions speak louder than words' - some sort of actuator project driven from a microphone or recorded audio narration. ( Neil Mendoza: Robotic Voice Activated Kicking Machine https://vimeo.com/177486245  )

• 'A penny saved is a penny earned' - some sort of a piggy bank or a donation box.

• 'If you snooze you loose' - some sort of reaction timer.

Could also play around a little with the words in the original proverb.

I'm always eager to hear your crazy ideas... those are the most fun!

A zangy build, but it works. What a job mayermakes? If I get a crazy idea, it is going your way.

thanks DAB