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Solenoid Steel Band Makes Me Want to Go to Brazil and Dance
Posted by Jesus Diaz at 1:33 PM on September 29, 2008
A music aficionado/engineering genius has created this wonderful musical piece using just electromagnetic solenoids--devices that convert electricity into linear motion--placed next to different objects around the office, and a computer control program. The result is so good that it makes me want to drink caipirinhas, dance samba, or move to Rio do Janeiro. But since I just moved to New York and it's 11:30PM already, I will just do myself a caipirinha and watch the episode 1 season 2 of Californication.
How to do a perfect caipirinha
Ingredients
• Cachaça (brazilian sugar cane liquor)
• Cane sugar
• Limes
• Finely crushed ice
Instructions
• Get a glass, preferably one with a wide diameter and short (but I made them large myself)
• Cut one full lime into eight sections.
• Put the lime in the glass and cover with sugar (you can add more sugar later if it's too strong for you)
• With a wood pestle (you can also use a metal one or any other instrument) mash the limes with the sugar until the juice and the sugar create a syrup.
• Add the crushed ice until you top the glass (I crush it by hand, in a cloth)
• Fill with cachaça to the top.
• Stirred well with a spoon until the whole thing is mixed (if you have a cocktail steel glass, you can also shake it).
• Taste and see if you need more sugar (add and mix again if needed).
Enjoy one of the most delicious drinks in the world, perfect for a hot sunday (which it is, here in my apartment in New York).
Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
L.B.K.MURTHY RAJU
Posted October 3, 2008 11:59 PM
i required AS-05-N solenoid for AC110V and is used for Newlong make Sewing machine purpose
fluf
Posted 2:09 PM 29/9/08
It's making me dizzy!
fluf
alowishus
Posted 2:03 PM 29/9/08
I've never had a caipirinha. They sound dreamy . . . Ah well, ice-cold beer will have to do tonight.
alowishus
Ambiguous Blob 2.0
Posted 1:59 PM 29/9/08
His neighbors MUST just love him!
Ambiguous Blob 2.0
poop-acead
Posted 1:51 PM 29/9/08
i dont know if the weeds ep # and seas# reference in the first paragragh is like code for get high poop.. if it was: roger that
poop-acead
crazy0000
Posted 2:29 PM 29/9/08
I love it, someone should make a set you can buy, and you install a card in your computer, and the solenoids are wireless and battery powered and you can set them up anywhere within 30 feet of the computer. I would play with that all night.
crazy0000
Reilaos~
Posted 2:18 PM 29/9/08
I would bet this drives his neighbors insane.
Reilaos~
smartboydan hates college
Posted 2:58 PM 29/9/08
That was sheer win. And it gave me a great idea for a competition I'm currently in. Thank you Giz, for making my night.
smartboydan hates college
paul
Posted 2:55 PM 29/9/08
Oh moved to the Big Apple! You must be getting serious about this job! ;-D
paul
vinchbr
Posted 2:49 PM 29/9/08
gotta love what people here with a lot of time in their hands can do...
maybe now that im done with university and unemployed (figures huh?) i should do something useful of my time...
vinchbr
cpthook
Posted 2:46 PM 29/9/08
@crazy0000: Awesome idea. I'd buy.
cpthook
Chewbenator
Posted 3:16 PM 29/9/08
Can just imagine the boss walking in, "WTF?"
Chewbenator
jenheta
Posted 3:02 PM 29/9/08
"Honey, that noise started again..."
jenheta
Mike918
Posted 3:39 PM 29/9/08
Tooo much free time on his hands...but still awesome.
Mike918
thefutureisnow
Posted 3:32 PM 29/9/08
I'd like to know what other rythyms it can produce.
thefutureisnow
thefutureisnow
Posted 4:09 PM 29/9/08
I wonder how this would sound if there was an actual music track backing it.♠
thefutureisnow
thefutureisnow
Posted 4:02 PM 29/9/08
@Mike918: you're not just whistling dixie.
thefutureisnow
phreakincool
Posted 5:14 PM 29/9/08
Awesome! I want one! Only because its driving my dogs bonkers.
phreakincool
antitrust311
Posted 5:33 PM 29/9/08
So Jesus, I take it you finally made it out of the UK? Glad to see your back in the USA!
antitrust311
ecobore
Posted 5:32 PM 29/9/08
Now, that looks like just about the ONLY worthwhile activity to undertake in an office!
caipirinha is my house cocktail down here in SW France - Cachaça is not often available, so I buy 10 bottles at a time when I see it. People LOVE it when they come round...
ecobore
papaguru
Posted 6:04 PM 29/9/08
You just moved to NY? I thought you had just moved to the UK with Addy?
...And while on the subject of Addy, will we ever see one of her great articles again on the Giz?
papaguru
Valicore
Posted 6:04 PM 29/9/08
They should make gigantic versions of these to knock down buildings lol
Valicore
Pretolo
Posted 5:56 PM 29/9/08
STAMP(tm) controller... Yay!!!
Pretolo
Jasontrainer
Posted 6:30 PM 29/9/08
You forgot the mint! Muddle the lime and sugar with mint leaves dood.
Jasontrainer
matt_maslanka
Posted 7:04 PM 29/9/08
Jason: it's not a Mojito, buddy -
Here's how Robert Hess makes a caipirinha:
[www.smallscreennetwork.com]
I highly recommend watching a few of his videos and experimenting!
matt_maslanka
Curves Wants a Classic View Default
Posted 10:08 PM 29/9/08
I love how he speeds it up at the end but cool vid. Good Beat. I give it a 68.
Curves Wants a Classic View Default
Pazu
Posted 10:48 PM 29/9/08
That's like, Rez Brazilian style. Genius.
Pazu
closhedbb
Posted 10:35 PM 29/9/08
Rio DE Janeiro... *Hangs head in shame for being so damn anal*
closhedbb
Jimbuck Bada' Bing!
Posted 11:04 PM 29/9/08
MAX/MSP FTW!
Jimbuck Bada' Bing!
zydeco100
Posted 12:47 AM 30/9/08
David Byrne just did this recently with a *whole building*. Better yet, he hooked it up to a keyboard so people could play their own tunes live:
"Playing the Building"
[www.davidbyrne.com]
zydeco100
Jambino
Posted 2:08 AM 30/9/08
...and somewhere Einstürzende Neubauten weeps and hits a piece of old car bumper...
Jambino
KarinDiscoGirl
Posted 4:07 AM 30/9/08
I think I just fell in love with Jesus' drink-making abilities.
KarinDiscoGirl
QuenbySilo
Posted 3:51 AM 30/9/08
In the recipe, it's lemons - not limes. I suppose the confusion comes from Brazilian lemons being green (Brazilian limes are yellow!), so Americans mistake them for limes.
QuenbySilo
ShobhitaQuail
Posted 4:26 PM 29/9/08
The platform he/she was using is called arduino. It's being controlled by Max/MSP. You can buy all of the pieces commercially, and probably get the Max patches if you track down the whoever created the video. I doubt that you could buy this as a kit though, simply because it was a strictly DIY enterprise probably using some open source bits and pieces.
ShobhitaQuail
neojam
Posted 8:57 AM 30/9/08
i really thankful that i dont have a neighbor like him...
neojam
OribelMelpomene
Posted 2:52 PM 29/9/08
caipirinha (pronounced "Kai" as in Cobra Kai from Karate Kid, "Puh" as in put, "ring" as in... uh... ring, and "ah", but not the open up and say "ahhh" kind of ah, just the quick little ah like "ah choo" as in what you say when you sneeze. Kai-puh-ring-a. But in Portueguese the "ng" is closer to the "n" sound than the ng. I digress. Caipirinha is awesome any day of the week - and you can make them with lemon instead of lime as well - both an amazing drink. The Cachaça is only made in Brazil, and the crap you can get here in the states is, well... crap. Pronounced "kah" as in how they say "car" in Boston, "shasa" as in Mount Shasta without the "t" (or the Mount). But it's also called "Pinga" (pronounced just like it looks) - and that's easier to remember. So... If you ever know anyone going to Brazil, what are you going to ask them to bring back for you? A good bottle of Pinga!
OribelMelpomene
Pensador
Posted 1:28 AM 1/10/08
Hummm... Caipirinha... I want one!
Pensador