Poll for what jc2048 does in Project 14 Movers and Shakers - please vote by noon Monday 16th July 2018

This was intended as a micro-poll in a comment on the Mover & Shaker page. Here's the explanation repeated for anyone who arrives here directly.

Bit more detail:

The Faraday would incorporate a well-known march by Sousa played on the Amazing Arduino Music Box. You'll know which march if you recognise the show that the title references. There would be cameo roles for the great and good of science and engineering - I might even be able to shoe-horn a mathematician like Turing in there somewhere since he now seems to be Numero Uno here on planet e14.

The Divertissement in question is the one by Ibert, which is really great fun even without any visuals. This one is easy because it's just a performance (well, easy once I've made all the electro-mechanical instruments that do some of the performing).

Tilting would require me to sit down and read the whole of Don Quixote, so only vote for this one if you're exceptionally cruel and have a heart of flint (note, I might cheat and skim-read it or even look at a student's guide instead). I haven't got a clue how this one goes together, so let's hope nobody votes for it, though it would probably star at least one windmill and a somewhat sad and confused old man.

The Bard brings Shakespeare forward to the 21st century and introduces him to technology. Or something like that. Again, I haven't totally worked this one out as yet, but I've got a kind of vague idea in my head of Shakespeare sitting in a booth (like the kind of things Tim Hunkin does - would be just my luck if he's already done something similar) explaining technology in verse. For some reason, I'm quite keen on the idea of it having a coin slot - when the money goes in, the Bard would wake (jolt into life?) and launch into an explanation of capacitance, or inductance, or stuff like that, much to the amazement of the person who's just wasted their money.

>Tilting ... only vote for this one if you're exceptionally cruel and have a heart of flint

Oh no! hahaha I'm so sorry... I didn't read your "more detail" comment until after I voted! (and I was influenced by John Alexander's comment below - I blame him!)

I think, if it wins, it'll be safe enough to skip the book and just have some random wheeled item run at some random cardboard cutout vaguely resembling a windmill while pointing some random poking device at it.

Also, it seems that Wikipedia has a summary available. Am I forgiven yet?

Cheers, and apologies

-Nico

Yes, totally forgiven. I gave it as an option, so it's fine for people to choose it.

It doesn't look like it's going to win, so feel free to steal the idea and do your own

...random wheeled item run at some random cardboard cutout vaguely resembling a windmill...

for Movers and Shakers, if you want.

>feel free to steal the idea and do your own

>>...random wheeled item run at some random cardboard cutout vaguely resembling a windmill...

LOL, after I so accurately spec'd out the details ( ), it's looking very temping indeed!

Cheers,

-Nico

I'm curious about the wheeled item. Does Rocinante have wheels (a robot steed) or are you going to make it a road movie and have Sancho and Don jump into a truck? A cybernetic version of Don Quixote would be very stylish.

I'm curious about the wheeled item. Does Rocinante have wheels (a robot steed) or are you going to make it a road movie and have Sancho and Don jump into a truck? A cybernetic version of Don Quixote would be very stylish.

>Does Rocinante have wheels

Hahaha! now you're really making me want to do this!